How Much Power Does Chris Gear Have?

[Lazurus]

Promoted on Jan 7 to Assistant General Manager from being in an advisory committee position.

He is described as having contract and cap management.

 

I wonder because Benning has not negotiated or signed a single contract in 12 months now.

 

You would think that a decision between Markstrom and Demko would have been solved well before February 1 and Markstrom signed well before his contract ran out. Covid was an unknown back then so that is not a reason.

But then all contracts are being allowed to run out even in the front office.

 

Under Benning the team value has dropped by over a quarter of a billion dollars, he has spent well over 500 million on player and front office contracts and the team's win loss record is pretty dismal over a 7 year period.

That is pretty significant amount of money the Aquilini's have allowed Benning, pretty much unrestricted.

 

So along comes Chris Gear, basically a cap guy that was also writing up contracts for Benning, doing the legal work, following instructions and now he in charge of getting control of finances.

 

I wonder just how much say he has now? Benning has never restrained himself with contracts over the last 7 years so is Gear in charge of that part now?

Edited September 24, 2020 by Lazurus

[Coconuts]

We can speculate, but I don't think anyone who's not working towards the top of the Canucks organization really has an answer to that question 

 

I would imagine the role of an AGM varies from team management structure to team management structure as well, which makes the weight he holds in the Canucks management group even tougher to nail down 

 

Haven't really heard anything about him since his promotion 

[Where's Wellwood]

I don't think letting contracts run out is all that strange. Happens all the time.

[Angry Goose]

The reason Markstrom isn't signed is because JB is letting Gear do his job-negotiate.  

[tas]

47 minutes ago, Lazurus said:

Promoted on Jan 7 to Assistant General Manager from being in an advisory committee position.

He is described as having contract and cap management.

 

I wonder because Benning has not negotiated or signed a single contract in 18 months now.

 

You would think that a decision between Markstrom and Demko would have been solved well before February 1 and Markstrom signed well before his contract ran out. Covid was an unknown back then so that is not a reason.

But then all contracts are being allowed to run out even in the front office.

 

Under Benning the team value has dropped by over a quarter of a billion dollars, he has spent well over 500 million on player and front office contracts and the team's win loss record is pretty dismal over a 7 year period.

That is pretty significant amount of money the Aquilini's have allowed Benning, pretty much unrestricted.

 

So along comes Chris Gear, basically a cap guy that was also writing up contracts for Benning, doing the legal work, following instructions and now he in charge of getting control of finances.

 

I wonder just how much say he has now? Benning has never restrained himself with contracts over the last 7 years so is Gear in charge of that part now?

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your implication, but at the very least, boeser, ferland, motte, myers, benn, and fantenburg have been signed in the last 15 months. 

[PetterssonOrPeterson]

All the power in the world.

[brownky]

[Lazurus]

13 minutes ago, tas said:

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your implication, but at the very least, boeser, ferland, motte, myers, benn, and fantenburg have been signed in the last 15 months. 

missed the key 12 months

[JeremyCuddles]

Benning hate thread masked as a question about the Assistant GM. Not sure very many people on CDC have inside information on the inner workings of Vancouver and each positions power or lack thereof. And they don't exactly make their structure public knowledge. 

[tas]

4 minutes ago, Lazurus said:

missed the key 12 months

there doesn't seem anything at all unusual about there not being any contracts signed in the last 12 months since there hasn't been an offseason in that time. 

 

that's my thought, anyway. 

[Nuxfanabroad]

If he has a cohort in a clutch position, he'll prob work smoothly..but sometimes it's a grind, eh?

[Tre Mac]

Well if Gear was around during the Beagle, Roussel, Sutter contracts then I would assume he's just another yes man.

[MystifyNCrucify]

Who?

[The Lock]

I kind of feel like you're picking up a rock, staring at it for a moment, and then making some bold claims about the rock.

 

It's about as effective at the very least.

[MrCanuck94]

Do you know how management teams work generally in businesses? Might be able to answer your own question there.

 

As for your value claims.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194991/nhl-franchise-value-of-the-vancouver-canucks-since-2006/#:~:text=This graph depicts the value,of 740 million U.S. dollars.

 

As for thread title, Chris is probably more in charge of legalities and someone Jim can bounce alternatives and questions off specifically regarding the capology side of things. A GM only has time to do so much, which is why specialized individuals are hired in each aspect, but to suggest Gear is doing anything without Benning's say or knowledge, c'mon lmao.

[Sean Monahan]

4 hours ago, Lazurus said:

Under Benning the team value has dropped by over a quarter of a billion dollars

Well of course. The team went from being very good to very s**tty. What did you expect to happen?

[tas]

this thread is basically fake news

[Gawdzukes]

very little

[BlastPast]

Not sure "power" is the correct word ; It would be  more a question of what duties he performs.  He is the point man on contract negotiations, I believe, and he probably has some communication with agents and works on structuring of deals and figuring out what is "doable" in terms of cap compliancy.

[goog16]