Jim Benning Era Transaction Summary

[m9]

Not as bad as the Buffalo Sabre UFA signing Okposo. Worst plus/minus in the league for a forward. What is it? Minus 29 or something. What did the rebuilding Sabres sign him for in 2016? $7 year 7 million per? Can't remember. Might have to do with Jim Benning once working there. Blame Jim!

Yes, great job by Benning avoiding any long-term terrible contracts like Okposo in 2016...

 

[racerjoe]

Yes, great job by Benning avoiding any long-term terrible contracts like Okposo in 2016...

Good thing we don’t have an albatross like that on our team with a buyout proof contract that is a 12 goal scorer...

 

[ChefBoiRD]

-Andrew Ladd 32 years old
-Signed in 2016 - 7 year/$5.5 million per
- 60 games - 9 goals/13 assists
- last 3 years modified/expires 2022/23 season

-Louis Eriksson 32 years old
-signed in 2016 - 6 year/$6 million per
- 50 games - 10 goals 13 sssists
- last 2 years modified/expires 2021/22

 

[MS]

-Andrew Ladd 32 years old
-Signed in 2016 - 7 year/$5.5 million per
- 60 games - 9 goals/13 assists
- last 3 years modified/expires 2022/23 season

-Louis Eriksson 32 years old
-signed in 2016 - 6 year/$6 million per
- 50 games - 10 goals 13 sssists
- last 2 years modified/expires 2021/22

I don't think anyone has ever argued that Eriksson has the only terrible contract in the NHL, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Also Okposo is coming off a career-threatening concussion issue that put him in hospital for an extended period at the close of last season, so there are big-time mitigating circumstances behind his poor year this year.

 

[ChefBoiRD]

I don't think anyone has ever argued that Eriksson has the only terrible contract in the NHL, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Also Okposo is coming off a career-threatening concussion issue that put him in hospital for an extended period at the close of last season, so there are big-time mitigating circumstances behind his poor year this year.

I don't think anyone has ever argued that Eriksson has the only terrible contract in the NHL, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Also Okposo is coming off a career-threatening concussion issue that put him in hospital for an extended period at the close of last season, so there are big-time mitigating circumstances behind his poor year this year.

Well

Spend enough time here you'd think that Benning owns the sole rights to bad signings, bad trades and bad drafting. All GMs have bad signings, bad trades, bad drafting on their resume, it's not a predictable science

Look no further to Chiarelli's work in Edmonton

-Hall trade - not good
-Eberle trade - not good
-Griffin Reinhart trade - not good
-Trading futures for Talbot to be your number 1 goalie - not good
- Lucic contract - not looking great
- Russell contract - not looking great

It's not an easy job which is why I think people need to chill on the extreme Benning hate. Hey I don't like everything he's done either but why in gawds green earth some here think he walked into an easy peasy situation is beyond me, especially when you consider the fickle bandwagon market, ownership demands, the contracts he inherited, and the dreadful empty prospect pool and black hole in the young to middle aged part of the lineup

At least ease off a little on the emotional hate and put some pedal down on objective perspective

Just my two bits

 

[Hit the post]

I love the "Mr X" isn't a bad GM because "Mr Y" is a whole lot worse defense...

 

[pgj98m3]

Well

Spend enough time here you'd think that Benning owns the sole rights to bad signings, bad trades and bad drafting. All GMs have bad signings, bad trades, bad drafting on their resume, it's not a predictable science

Look no further to Chiarelli's work in Edmonton

-Hall trade - not good
-Eberle trade - not good
-Griffin Reinhart trade - not good
-Trading futures for Talbot to be your number 1 goalie - not good
- Lucic contract - not looking great
- Russell contract - not looking great

It's not an easy job which is why I think people need to chill on the extreme Benning hate. Hey I don't like everything he's done either but why in gawds green earth some here think he walked into an easy peasy situation is beyond me, especially when you consider the fickle bandwagon market, ownership demands, the contracts he inherited, and the dreadful empty prospect pool and black hole in the young to middle aged part of the lineup

At least ease off a little on the emotional hate and put some pedal down on objective perspective

Just my two bits

1) This is a Canucks thread so I really don't give 2 shits how bad other GMs are.
2) Benning is the worst GM over the last three years.
3) Nothing he does or says suggests we can expect anything but more of the same.
4)So....taking an "objective perspective" Benning has destroyed this team

 

[racerjoe]

1) This is a Canucks thread so I really don't give 2 ****s how bad other GMs are.
2) Benning is the worst GM over the last three years.
3) Nothing he does or says suggests we can expect anything but more of the same.
4)So....taking an "objective perspective" Benning has destroyed this team

I would add did anyone here ever argue Chiarelli wasn't anything but awful?

 

[ChefBoiRD]

Well, you can't fault me for trying

Back to angry, emotional posting and battle lines drawn

 

[ChefBoiRD]

I would add did anyone here ever argue Chiarelli wasn't anything but awful?

Well one can also look at it this a way - Wins a Stanley Cup not to long ago and now oddly enough is "wasn't anything but awful". He either - was never good to begin with and fluked the Stanley Cup OR GM'ing an NHL team is not as easy as it looks from the "sidelines"

 

[pgj98m3]

Well, you can't fault me for trying

Back to angry, emotional posting and battle lines drawn

I'm a seasons ticket holder so I feel totally justified in being pissed off.....why should we be anything but angry and emotional about this tire fire????????

 

[ChefBoiRD]

I'm a seasons ticket holder so I feel totally justified in being pissed off.....why should we be anything but angry and emotional about this tire fire????????

Uh oh. The "I'm a season ticket holder" guy

One on every block

 

[pgj98m3]

Uh oh. The "I'm a season ticket holder" guy

One on every block

Which means what???????
I have an emotional and financial investment in this team.
My long term concern is that this team may not win a Stanley Cup in my lifetime.

What makes you special?????

 

[sting101]

 

[Addison Rae]

I cheated on my girlfriend with 5 different girls, but I’m not a bad boyfriend because my friend saqib cheated on his girlfriend with 7 different girls.

 

[vancityluongo]

is there not another thread this discussion can go to? this thread is useful for summarizing and tracking team transactions. nothing on the current page contributes to those things.

100% this.

Would be nice to actually just delete everything but the OP and only keep it open for people willing to post updates until they can be copied into the OP.

 

[krutovsdonut]

100% this.

Would be nice to actually just delete everything but the OP and only keep it open for people willing to post updates until they can be copied into the OP.

i'd also like to save the analysis i did at posts 78 and 101. in my defence, i originally started a different thread for those posts and they got moved here. i think they are objective and just a different and potentially useful way to list and analyse transactions.

 

[vancityluongo]

i'd also like to save the analysis i did at posts 78 and 101. in my defence, i originally started a different thread for those posts and they got moved here. i think they are objective and just a different and potentially useful way to list and analyse transactions.

I work in the finance industry so ya, I'd vote to keep a balance sheet of transactions for sure. Interesting approach.

 

[Lshap]

Knock off the personal sniping. Either stay on topic or don't bother posting.

 

[pgj98m3]

Knock off the personal sniping. Either stay on topic or don't bother posting.

I hear you loud and clear.

 

[Lshap]

I hear you loud and clear.

Those royal-blue soundwaves do the trick every time.

 

[Hodgy]

At least ease off a little on the emotional hate and put some pedal down on objective perspective

This team has literally been the worst team in hockey over the past three years. Anything other than a scathing critique of this management is at best overly optimistic, and at worst, delusional.

I find it amusing that you think your perspective is objective, and not overly optimistic, given the results this management team has achieved.

 

[VanJack]

Wherever you are on the roster moves, the Canucks at the end of the day are a business.....and that 'business' has probably the worst payroll relative to performance in the entire league....I mean you don't have to spend to the salary cap max every year to finish in 30th place....you can accomplish that with a lineup of waiver-wire pickups; AHL-NHL 'tweeners; and 'B' level prospects.

And outside of maybe five guys, the rest of this Canuck lineup ranges from 'marginally overpaid to 'obscenely' overpaid. I'm just an average hockey fan, but I do know something about business.....if you own a business with one of the highest payrolls in your industry, but you're getting creamed by your competition night after night, then it isn't long before owner comes looking for heads to mount on a stake.

The trouble with the Canucks is a lack of accountability. It starts on the ice; moves into the hockey ops department and then through to the owner. Until the fans start staying away like they are in Buffalo these days, not much will change. Kind of ironic that the Canucks and their expansion cousins the Sabres are in the same slimy quicksand. Except fans in Buffalo have seen enough. Their rink is half empty and you can't give seats away.

 

[ChefBoiRD]

Playing Anaheim tonight serving up some transaction memory lane

Anaheim drafts Sideroff with the 3rd we trade them in the Kesler trade

We trade the 3rd Anaheim gave us in the Kesler trade to the Rangers for Dorsett. The Rangers select Iverson with that pick

Who won this little 3-way quagmire?

I'm going with Jimbro Benning

 

[pgj98m3]

Playing Anaheim tonight serving up some transaction memory lane

Anaheim drafts Sideroff with the 3rd we trade them in the Kesler trade

We trade the 3rd Anaheim gave us in the Kesler trade to the Rangers for Dorsett. The Rangers select Iverson with that pick

Who won this little 3-way quagmire?

I'm going with Jimbro Benning

Are you serious or just trolling?