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Exactly.  And we have rookies galore in Vancouver but they don't stand a chance because Green won't play them, doesn't trust them, etc etc yadda yadda.

(ofc Benning isn't entirely blameless either as he keeps giving Green lots of "trustworthy" vets to pad his roster with)

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4 minutes ago, Googlie said:

Exactly.  And we have rookies galore in Vancouver but they don't stand a chance because Green won't play them, doesn't trust them, etc etc yadda yadda.

(ofc Benning isn't entirely blameless either as he keeps giving Green lots of "trustworthy" vets to pad his roster with)

aren't we talking about justin abdelkader and detroit?

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48 minutes ago, tas said:

aren't we talking about justin abdelkader and detroit?

Yes - but just making the point that it's what we should be doing, not chasing or lusting after every free agent that comes available.  Benning should take a page out of Stevey Y's playbook.   A few weeks ago JB said that he didn't think he'd be active in this FA season,  yet here he is, seemingly following up every potential acquisition although we have so many cap problems of our own.

 

Other point I was making re Monty's post was that maybe Benning realizes that it's not going to work giving Green a stablefull of young prospects because he just isn't going to dress tham, unlike Yzerman who is dumping Abdelkader to make room for cheaper, hungrier rookies (Monty 's point)

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22 minutes ago, Googlie said:

Yes - but just making the point that it's what we should be doing, not chasing or lusting after every free agent that comes available.  Benning should take a page out of Stevey Y's playbook.   A few weeks ago JB said that he didn't think he'd be active in this FA season,  yet here he is, seemingly following up every potential acquisition although we have so many cap problems of our own.

 

Other point I was making re Monty's post was that maybe Benning realizes that it's not going to work giving Green a stablefull of young prospects because he just isn't going to dress tham, unlike Yzerman who is dumping Abdelkader to make room for cheaper, hungrier rookies (Monty 's point)

not every thread needs to be about your bad takes on benning's team building abilities. 

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8 minutes ago, tas said:

not every thread needs to be about your bad takes on benning's team building abilities. 

Lol -  you must be confusing me with someone else.  This is the first instance when I have ever criticized Benning

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Just now, Googlie said:

Lol -  you must be confusing me with someone else.  This is the first instance when I have ever criticized Benning

I have no idea who you are or what you've posted. there are a million threads devoted to the Canucks roster, the one about justin abdelkader and the wings doesn't need to be one of them. 

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I have always liked Abdelkader.  Over his 739 game career he has had 1754 hits (9.55 per 60 mins) and 344 blocked shots (1.87 per 60 mins)

Scored 106 goals with 25 of these on the power play and 146 assists (thus 0.34 ppg)

Has taken 1714 faceoffs during his career winning 50.5%

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