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27 minutes ago, TheGuardian_ said:

How many more years should Benning get?

 

It took Talon 4 years to re-jig Chicago and Florida, isn't Benning in like year 3 and the team is doing what more than a few posters wanted before and warned would happen now? Tanking is not the guarantee it was 2 years ago, but he team is heading in that direction without meaning to and trying not to, it just goes to show....something. Is the team as bad as the standings? Maybe not but, they aren't much better.

 

Gillis not only got the team back into the playoffs, he got them to the SCF. Remember this was a team with the top six forwards and top 4 defence locked and most draft picks were in the late picks. The guys now playing, Tanev, Hutton, Horvat, Guance, Markstrom,  are all Gillis deals done when rebuilding started to be necessary.

 

Booth = Eriksson only older and more expensive with longer term

Ballard = Virtanen, in the coaches doghouse = proving the owners are willing to allow 4.5 mil sit on the bench year after year without interfering.

 

 

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you do something utterly ridiculous like compare Eriksson to Booth...

 

Also Virtanen belongs in the AHL as he is NOT NHL ready.

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22 hours ago, canuck73_3 said:

 

 

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you do something utterly ridiculous like compare Eriksson to Booth...

 

Also Virtanen belongs in the AHL as he is NOT NHL ready.

Your right Booth was a lot less expensive, didn't have the NMC, wasn't signed to be on the top line and scored more points on average.

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On 11/11/2016 at 0:12 PM, canuck73_3 said:

 

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you do something utterly ridiculous like compare Eriksson to Booth...

 

To be fair, Booth *prior to that cheapshot knee-on-knee hit* wasn't doing all that bad as a 2nd line winger.  Never was the same afterwards.

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1 hour ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

To be fair, Booth *prior to that cheapshot knee-on-knee hit* wasn't doing all that bad as a 2nd line winger.  Never was the same afterwards.

 

Eriksson has hit 60+ points 5 times and 30+ goals twice while Booth has hit 30 goals 60 points once. 

 

Kind of ridiculous to judge Loui on one 12 game stretch when he's a proven top 6 talent. 

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51 minutes ago, canuck73_3 said:

 

Eriksson has hit 60+ points 5 times and 30+ goals twice while Booth has hit 30 goals 60 points once. 

 

Kind of ridiculous to judge Loui on one 12 game stretch when he's a proven top 6 talent. 

I made *NO SUCH COMPARISON*.  My point was only that Booth was turning out pretty much as expected for us before that cheapshot hit.

 

60 points should hardly be considered the 'floor' when evaluating a 2nd liner winger.  Just look where that would rank you in ANY NHL season.

 

My opinion only of course.

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FIRE  Jim Benning  immediately.

 

Guy signed LE to a 36 million dollar contact to come to vancouver and score goals....

 

Canucks don't even put him on the powerplay or with the Sedins.

 

Time to fire both Benning and Willy...

 

Canucks are the worst run team in the NHL at this point.

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The worst thing that could happen is a "reactionary"  type of firing and hiring.

 

Now ownership has shown they can think out of the box when hiring GM's, it has worked once with Gillis, not so much with Benning.

I wouldn't mind seeing ownership like the Yankee's had with Steinbrenner, under his thumb the team won 7 world series,11 pennants and were the team to beat just about all the time.

 

IMO, they have to hire the best available or "get" one, like the team did with Quinn.

 

There are "perks" to coming here, an owner that spends as much as it takes, passionate fan base and the city.

 

Of the best out there right now, oddly enough Gillis might not be a bad choice, I don't see any other uber successful GM's available.

 

If there is a firing or resignation, then ownership may want to get more involved but the NHL is such a controlled league, that may be difficult to impossible.

 

The current group "sold" the idea of re-tooling on the fly and now they are, or seem to be, welded to the "plan".

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