D-Money Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 15 minutes ago, DeNiro said: But the Canucks always draft one of the best three players in each round. Haven't you followed their drafting record? Ouch - that Herters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coryberg Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 minute ago, Rocksterh8 said: On the other hand, JB could have just demoted Kassian to the farm and saved the 5th round pick..... just saying And shinkaruk could have been drunk riding shotgun into the tree with teenage girls at 5am too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 is everybody seriously crying over a 5th round pick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 minute ago, smokes said: Yes because putting a player with his off ice issues will set a great example for our prospects. Amazing how this part is lost on some people. They didn't want Kassian around our young guys. They were willing to pay another team to take him off our hands. That's how badly they wanted to dump him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gforce31 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 15 minutes ago, coryberg said: Prust. ...2,500,000 1 way contact Tostito...575,000 2 way contract (probably 200,000 in the ahl) That's 1,925,000 reasons to a team without cap space Good point! I was thinking more along the lines of character - but forgot you know, the whole money thing ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Not going to miss him. Talked the alk but didnt walk it. Furnham beats on Virtanen, calls him out on twitter then does nothing in the rematch on home ice..... then McCann gets abused in Anaheim and another no show. Weber up next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coryberg Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 minute ago, chilliwiggins said: when is Jim FLEECY Benning gonna win one with the BIG BOYS???? pretty soon the other GMs around the league are gonna give him the John Scott treatment and just give him a freebee pick out of sympathy. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaguez Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Doubt he gets claimed. 2.5 million for a "tough" guy who tells the media that the kids gotta defend themselves. Hated him since that one statement. Once he passes through tell him to not bother reporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 2 minutes ago, hammertime said: is everybody seriously crying over a 5th round pick? It's CDC it's what we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliboy Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 38 minutes ago, sonoman said: I seem to recall scuttlebut at the time, many GM's claimed to not know CH was even available Exactly! We could have gotten very good value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 6 minutes ago, chilliwiggins said: when is Jim FLEECY Benning gonna win one with the BIG BOYS???? pretty soon the other GMs around the league are gonna give him the John Scott treatment and just give him a freebee pick out of sympathy. lol Columbus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 4 minutes ago, DeNiro said: Amazing how this part is lost on some people. They didn't want Kassian around our young guys. They were willing to pay another team to take him off our hands. That's how badly they wanted to dump him. When Edmonton traded for him and placed him in the minors, Elliotte Friedman mentioned that the Oilers were unique in that almost all of their valuable youth/prospects were in the NHL, and they didn't have too much of value on their farm team. That was one of the reasons they were willing to take that risk with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocksterh8 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I like the fact he is gone so the young guys can get the ice time, but it is getting annoying that a lot of our vets that they valued, have literally NO value to all other clubs. Makes you wonder what they were doing here for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 6 minutes ago, smokes said: Yes because putting a player with his off ice issues in the farm team will set a great example for our prospects. To play devils advocate. What will Prust teach the kids, to demand ice-time and to defend themselves? I don't like that argument with either player though, Travis Green is the one setting the tone in Utica. Green will embolden the players with good leadership traits to set the examples....like Chris Higgins. I don't think Kassian or Prust would affect the Utica dressing room. I'm hoping Higgins turns into Mike Keane...before being folded back into the Canuck mix in some capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 9 minutes ago, hammertime said: is everybody seriously crying over a 5th round pick? Between Forsling and this one, Benning is the worst GM ever! People bring up Vey, but compare that to what L.A. did with McKeown after. Him, AND a 1st, for a playoff rental, and you miss the playoffs entirely? Man, maybe L.A.'s GM is the worst ever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butters Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Chalky said: Oh I see, facts like he didn't plow into a tree until he was no longer a Canuck? I am honestly surprised at the reaction to my comment. I like Zack, I never liked Prust. I don't trash on JB with any regularity, but I call it as I see it. This club is supposed to be a bastion of support for those with mental illness, and I think more could have been done. Now be honest, are you reacting out of hate for Kassian or do you really think the trade was good. you don't even know what WAS done behind closed doors so it means little that you think that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokes Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 minute ago, Chalky said: To play devils advocate. What will Prust teach the kids, to demand ice-time and to defend themselves? I don't like that argument with either player though, Travis Green is the one setting the tone in Utica. Green will embolden the players with good leadership traits to set the examples....like Chris Higgins. I don't think Kassian or Prust would affect the Utica dressing room. I'm hoping Higgins turns into Mike Keane...before being folded back into the Canuck mix in some capacity. Whatever Prust can bring in Utica, it will be more than Kassian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 13 minutes ago, chilliwiggins said: when is Jim FLEECY Benning gonna win one with the BIG BOYS???? pretty soon the other GMs around the league are gonna give him the John Scott treatment and just give him a freebee pick out of sympathy. lol Do you know what a troll post is? Because this is a troll post. In fact, the vast majority of yours are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 4 minutes ago, chilliwiggins said: oh well benning said playoffs, scratch that, but he did say on the fly. oh right now its a complete rebuild. weisbrod will save the day I'm sure you will love his American born ushl first rounder. at least the canucks must have one of the lowest salary totals for management. should be anyways. lol when exactly did it become a complete re build? I still see Hansen/ the Sedins/Edler/Tanev not being traded anytime soon. lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86Viking Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 It will always be debated that we didnt give Kassian enough of a chance, or if we kept him and he still pulled of the incident in the fall fans would be all over Benning for not moving him. The fact is we lost the trade, we lost a 5th and a player who was far younger, had more upside and was cost controllable for an older, worn down vet. Moving Kassian away for 0 return and moving him at all costs, shows me that Benning was obviously quite involved in moving Seguin aswell. Now the caliber of the player is much different I realize, but Boston surely regrets it and has come out basically said that. If kassian becomes at all effective as an Oiler or nhl player it will always look bad on us. Whats done is done, but I never was a fan of casting of Kassian, he had issues we have seen that, but we should have tried to rehab him ourselves or brought his value up last year by playing him and moved him at the draft, I do believe he could have played near the end of the year. Prust was a bad decision from the get go, if we wanted sized and grit we needed to target someone younger, If Benning knew the game was getting faster and he wanted to do this young transition why did he ever want to bring in Prust anyways. Prust will clear, join Higgins and now 5m in Utica with a soon to be Weber most like adding to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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