Popular Post Sbriggs Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 minute ago, Where'd Luongo? said: No it's definitely true. Mg took us to game 7. You're a special snowflake. Im sure the majority of that team was their long before Gillis arrived, Luongo Sedins Kesler Burrows Edler I think the core of that team was primed for a Stanely cup run handed to Gillis. That team was built by Burke and Nonis and Im not special I just remember 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Green Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Congrats to JB , the club is lucky to have you ! Looking forward to the final few moves to fill out the roster this year , the playoffs are in sight! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post luckylager Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 28 minutes ago, bree2 said: I just proved my point that some of you have no clue what you are on about. do you even know what a rebuild is? I guess not. got to be an adult and understand the game first The morons are out in full force Could name a really crappy student movie for them -Masters of the False Dichotomy- -Irrationally Stupid of the Rebuilding Mind- Anyways, I like JB. Big fan actually 2 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nuxfanabroad Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 Had Jimbo fixed the 2006-2012 drafting(with a time machine) we wouldn't have had these rough 4 yrs. So in a way, he's not PERFECT, eh? 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 He definitely gets more love than hate on CDC though. The home of true fans. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the grinder Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 39 minutes ago, Where'd Luongo? said: #neverwouldvesniffedthecupfinalswithoutmg #rmikegillissniffedloungocup #rebuild woulntoftakensolongifgilliscoulddraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Sbriggs said: Wait to see if he recoups a first rounder and How the season goes before passing judgement. If we win a cup 2-3-4 years down the road I'm sure your not worried about "tradez my fuhrst roundah" Sarcasm my friend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiznak Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 2 hours ago, stawns said: After the off season he just had, I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised or why they would complain about it. Not complaining but wouldn’t it make more sense to extend him after this upcoming season? What if all these off-season moves are all flops and we miss the playoffs yet again? That would be 5 out of 6 years, we would have missed the playoffs in his tenure. I guess Aquaman is playing with his house money and hoping we finally make the playoffs after a 4 year hiatus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ilduce39 Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 3 hours ago, Seinfeld said: Gillis was ahead of the curve when it came to maximizing player performance on the ice. You already know the examples ie. hiring sleep doctors, staying in away cities overnight instead of travelling, having the likes of Tom Brady as a guest speaker at player meetings, lobbying for a better travel schedule for the team. We knew we had a GM that was trying to get that extra edge over other GMs. Benning is the opposite and instills very little confidence, unless it’s draft day (even then he’s only above average). I always found it amusing/ironic how we have one of the worst records in the last 4 years and yet Benning insists he overpay for “culture carriers” to avoid a “losing culture”. I can give the guy credit on the macro level for putting the finishing touches on a great team.. but Gillis is getting so much mileage out of “sleep doctors” it’s friggin’ ridiculous. “OuTsIdE tHE BoX tHinKer” who precipitated one of the worst stretches in club history with horrible drafting, iron-clad NTC’s and some terrible trades. You still need to hit on the basics of being a GM when you’re getting press for neat ideas. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post the grinder Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Where'd Luongo? said: If jb had a team at their peak you can bet he would trade away the 1st round picks to make a run. Your attitude to mg is naive. well u might as well trade away draft picks if you drafted like gillis did benning got 5 nhl players his first draft gillis got 5 players in his 6 years in the draft so why you crying about picks for . did you cry when gillis traded Patrick White away ? shed a tear for cody ? how about Jordan Schroeder ? remember those first rounders so that means gillis is 3 times the dummy then according to your own analytical ideas 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ilduce39 Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 16 minutes ago, the grinder said: well u might as well trade away draft picks if you drafted like gillis did benning got 5 nhl players his first draft gillis got 5 players in his 6 years in the draft so why you crying about picks for . did you cry when gillis traded Patrick White away ? shed a tear for cody ? how about Jordan Schroeder ? remember those first rounders so that means gillis is 3 times the dummy then according to your own analytical ideas It’s funny how Gillis gets a pass because he was chasing a cup when he misses on Booth or Ballard or Kassian or Pahlsson but JB going after a young former 3OA in Gudbranson during a rebuild (which Guddy could have been a part of) is somehow egregious. I don’t actually blame Gillis for most of those moves, because most of them made sense at the time. It’s just funny how JB generally doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt on a lot of his moves. Guddy, of course, reminding us of Willie Mitchell who Gillis let walk upon his acquisition of Ballard.. who cost Grabner (STILL scoring 27 goals in 17/18 and on pace for 18 last year) PLUS a first round pick.... not to mention likely a cup.) Again, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to paint Gillis under this light... but that’s exactly what JB detractors do on a daily basis. Edited August 17, 2019 by ilduce39 2 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsAllOursBoys Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Nice to see the band-wagoners over on HFBoards are all taking JB,s resigning in stride..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 hour ago, ilduce39 said: It’s funny how Gillis gets a pass because he was chasing a cup when he misses on Booth or Ballard or Kassian or Pahlsson but JB going after a young former 3OA in Gudbranson during a rebuild (which Guddy could have been a part of) is somehow egregious. I don’t actually blame Gillis for most of those moves, because most of them made sense at the time. It’s just funny how JB generally doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt on a lot of his moves. Guddy, of course, reminding us of Willie Mitchell who Gillis let walk upon his acquisition of Ballard.. who cost Grabner (STILL scoring 27 goals in 17/18 and on pace for 18 last year) PLUS a first round pick.... not to mention likely a cup.) Again, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to paint Gillis under this light... but that’s exactly what JB detractors do on a daily basis. I even liked Gillis back in the day but let’s be real here. Sure he made a couple of moves to push us over the top, but the core was already in place. Hamhuis and Samuelsson were his two biggest signings and his drafting was literally non-existent outside of Horvat. Like could you imagine the reactions if McCann turns into Benning’s Grabner? They’d latch on to it and never give it up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) YES...... Great news... Well deserved Jim. This is the most positive I've seen Canucks land since 2012... Goes to show that owners have total faith in Jim Benning and his team building.... So bloody happy... Edited August 17, 2019 by spook007 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Canucks Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 11 hours ago, ChuckNORRIS4Cup said: Except, Benning only traded one first round pick. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Canucks Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 5 hours ago, kingofsurrey said: Yah, because trading first round picks is not the ideal way to rebuild our club... How about not making these dumb replies that prove you have no clue what you are talking about? Go back to HF Boards and cry about it with your special little buddies. He only traded one first round pick, and it's for the 2020 or 2021 draft. He didn't trade any during our rebuild. How long do you expect us to be rebuilding for, anyways? When do we actually try and improve? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleboy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Nice to see as it says that he has time to finish rebuild. Their is tons yet to do. No team needs a lame duck GM who makes decisions just to protect his job. We need stability and to maintain a stable direction. We don't have to agree with everything that Jim has done but we all must agree that there has been some solid young talent drafted in the last couple of years. I wish we had of kept more picks and didn't like seeing them move a first this year but I prefer to see status quo then someone new come in with a win now agenda. Hopefully they will be able to make a trade or two and clear some cap space ,maybe add a pick or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedinyoureyesontheprize Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Boeser Pettersson Hughes Podkolzin Juolevi Demko Virtanen Gaudette Tryamkin Hoglander Madden Woo Lind among others. Congrats JB. Well deserved. Always remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day but it was built one day at a time. Same as a Stanley Cup championship team. Keep up the great work and Setyoureyes ontheprize 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleboy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 11 minutes ago, Setyoureyesontheprize said: That should be the goal. NOTHING less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJockitch Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I know it is the nature of this board that people think this is a great move or think it is awful. He hasn't been a great GM but he hasn't been terrible either. He came into a team in a terrible situation and with no lottery luck has built the teams new core through the draft. He has however had a lot of things that are easy to be critical of. Bleeding pics in deals for average at best vets. Overpaying in UFA and being way too reliant on UFAs to stock the club. Numerous deals handed out to just bad players. Being a little too old school in his interpretation of the league. I think keeping him is a good thing as he does the most important part of the job well, he drafts well. My problem is with ownership not finding the people to compliment his weaknesses. After TL left they had a great opportunity to add a president that would help to complement him and we have heard nothing but crickets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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