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54 minutes ago, filthycanuck said:

Defintely, a lot of player agents are jumping for joy knowing Benning will be back. I wouldn't be suprised if Jim's number is on speed dial because you know that idiot will overpay.

 

Agent: My client (4th liner)  wants 5 million  X 5 years

Jim Benning: Thats a bit too much, we are up against the cap, we can maybe do 4.9 million per...

Agent: Done!

 

I will give him more credit ... let's make it 4.5 Million :P

 

But really if anything this seasons really showed how much past action can affect the franchise. Let's just hope he learns from this moving forward because the franchise cannot endure another near implosion like this season

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9 hours ago, Captain Canuck #12 said:

Yes.  I guess we'll have to start calling him Mike now..........or Michael!

I stopped being called mikey when I was 5 but people still bust it out from time to time. by all reports he actually prefers it though. 

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On 5/25/2021 at 4:35 AM, iinatcc said:

I will give him more credit ... let's make it 4.5 Million :P

 

But really if anything this seasons really showed how much past action can affect the franchise. Let's just hope he learns from this moving forward because the franchise cannot endure another near implosion like this season

if this seasonn shows anything it's that humans have no control over things they have no control over.  JB planned for the projected rise in cap and there was no reason to think it would be otherwise.  Had the pandemic not hit we wouldn't be talking about this and JB's plan would be moving fwd as planned.

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On 6/1/2021 at 9:02 PM, bruceybruce said:

Even though he’s  a little undersized compared to today’s goalies he has the reflexes of Felix the cat, the balance and toughness of Eddie the eagle with the mental calmness of Curtis Joseph. 
The next great Canadian goalie. Bringin it back. Go Canucks 

Are you his agent ?!  All kidding, aside that first game vs the Sharks, seems to had been a good experience for him cause it atleast, gave him an idea of what he will face in the NHL and what he needs to work on to get there.

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I like Dipietro, very good young goalie prospect 21 yrs old..Now that #1 Demko is signed for next 5 year. DIpietro could be a good asset to trade if there is a partner with a good prospect similar age? I think Dipietro will be NHL ready in next  very soon, see maybe 10 games next season..

Now with farm team in Abbotsford he will get lots of coaching..

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Some quotes from Ian Clark, Curtis Sanford, and Michael DiPietro:

 

“My focus is just going to camp and making it tough on Vancouver to send me down,” DiPietro told CanucksArmy. “It’s a little bit of a different mindset this year. There’s more business and I really am motivated to kind of put a really good foot forward and really prove myself.”

 

“I’m hungry to continue to get better. I laugh at people when they think they know what’s best for me because, at the end of the day, I don’t play hockey to be second best or play in the second-best league. My dream is to play in the NHL. If I just go to camp and concede and just be like, ‘okay, well I’m going to the American Hockey League, let’s just kind of run through the motions,’ then I shouldn’t even be at camp. My job at camp is to make it hard on them, and show them what I’m about.”

 

“You can use my age and say ‘oh you’re still young, you can still grow, you can have time in the American League this season.’ I’m not delicate. I’m not 19 anymore. I’m not that same goalie who let in seven goals against the San Jose Sharks at 19. I’m a mature young adult and I’m here to make it hard on them and I know what’s best for me at the end of the day. Like Clarkie [Vancouver goaltending coach Ian Clark] and Sandman [Abbotsford goalie coach Curtis Sanford] always say, you’re your best goalie coach — they can only help you along the way.”

 

“I know what I need to do. I’ll work hard during the season wherever I am and just continue to get better and grow. It’s a big year for myself and I’m excited.”

 

“I’m a very impatient person. I want things done yesterday and so for myself, it’s really important to continue to grow and to trend in the right direction,” added DiPietro.

 

“It’s funny he uses that word,” said goaltending coach Ian Clark of DiPietro’s impatience. “On the one hand, he has that impatience in his mental game — he’s impatient in the sense that he wants it today. And yet, when he’s on the ice, he’s a very patient goalie in the sense of, he never commits before that shooter, and so it’s a bit it’s interesting that he uses that terminology because he wants to be at the pinnacle now. Of course, I always tell goaltenders that there is no pinnacle, we’re always climbing and striving for more. He wants to make the Canucks out of camp. I think that drives him and this is all incredibly positive stuff.

 

“You start showing him video of himself, and then you start showing him video of other guys, and you start allowing it to make sense to him,” said Sanford, who coached DiPietro in Utica. “He’s going to have that figuring out the process, and he’s going to be the one that makes that decision. Whether it’s like, ‘yeah I’m all in’ or ‘oh no, I’m not sure,’ and maybe he gets halfway there and then reverts back. We never had that with Michael. With him it was like, ‘I get it, I see it and I’m gonna do this.’ He was all in right from the beginning. And that’s why the implementation was so quick.”

 

“I’ve worked with some of the hardest working goaltenders probably in the history of the game,” said Ian Clark. “Roberto Luongo is an incredible worker, Sergei Bobrovsky’s work habits are legendary, and to be honest with you, Mike DiPietro’s work habits are certainly right up there with some of the top goalies and top workers that I’ve had the privilege of working with.”

 

“Impatience is a big driver for him, a big motivator for him. It drives him on a daily basis to attain the trajectory that’s going to get him to the heights that he wants to be at,” added Clark. “Whatever happens in camp — if he comes into camp and is the best version of Michael DiPietro that we’ve ever seen, that’s fantastic for the Vancouver Canucks. Whatever happens in camp is going to happen in camp, but at the end of the day, this is the kind of mentality that puts him on such a high trajectory, which is fantastic.”

 

“I would certainly never count out Michael DiPietro, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who has ever spoken to him that would,” added Clark.

 

https://canucksarmy.com/2021/08/09/michael-dipietros-impatience-ready-best-foot-forward-training-camp/

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On 5/25/2021 at 3:40 AM, filthycanuck said:

Defintely, a lot of player agents are jumping for joy knowing Benning will be back. I wouldn't be suprised if Jim's number is on speed dial because you know that idiot will overpay.

 

Agent: My client (4th liner)  wants 5 million  X 5 years

Jim Benning: Thats a bit too much, we are up against the cap, we can maybe do 4.9 million per...

Agent: Done!

 

On 5/25/2021 at 4:35 AM, iinatcc said:

I will give him more credit ... let's make it 4.5 Million :P

 

But really if anything this seasons really showed how much past action can affect the franchise. Let's just hope he learns from this moving forward because the franchise cannot endure another near implosion like this season

Well these two posts didn't really age well ;) 

 

 

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On 8/9/2021 at 8:35 PM, VancouverHabitant said:

Well these two posts didn't really age well ;) 

 

 

I think we are still in the wait and see approach. As of now Benning did a lot this offseason but the question whether the moves were good remains to be seen. 

 

While most of the comments in this board have been relatively positive, the folks outside the Vancouver media has been more mixed. Sports in the analysts like Steve Dangle is not as enthusiastic 

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3 hours ago, iinatcc said:

I think we are still in the wait and see approach. As of now Benning did a lot this offseason but the question whether the moves were good remains to be seen. 

 

While most of the comments in this board have been relatively positive, the folks outside the Vancouver media has been more mixed. Sports in the analysts like Steve Dangle is not as enthusiastic 

Esteemed sports journalist and hockey critic Steve Dangle, of course. 

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