I love how everyone in here expects our GM to have taken the best player possible in every draft EVERY time he picked. If he didn't he's lambasted for effing up........Yessssss..........totally feasible - cus all other GM's hit on EVERY SINGLE one of their picks all the time too.......
Okay. What the hell, I'll give this a shot.
Boeser, Pettersson and Gaudette. The last couple of pages, the crux of your argument (besides the LOL HATERZZZ idiocy) is that Benning's a good gm because he drafted those three guys. Uh-huh. Gaudette and Pettersson are tracking extremely well, yes. I'm glad they're in the system. But once again, neither have done shit in the NHL and as much as you clearly don't want to believe, there are NO guarantees they'll make it. Boeser absolutely has. He's the best player on the team, easily. That means so far after four years on the job, Benning's managed to add one genuine impact player to the team. One. Out of all the FA signings, pro scouting fails and with the highest draft picks the team's had since the Sedins, Boeser is the sum total of actually good players Benning's managed to come across in four damn years (also maybe Stecher before his spirit and confidence were hopelessly crushed). Maybe have a look around the league at other teams' prospect pools and tell me how many have players tearing up lesser leagues before you anoint Benning as our saviour. And also maybe consider that this season the Canucks added the most promising rookie since certainly the Sedins. Boeser is certainly going to be a Calder nominee, and rightfully so. And....how did that affect the team's record? Say Pettersson and Gaudette join the club next year...do you think they'll both be Calder nominees themselves, and seeing as how the terrible defense and goaltending is all signed for another year, why would the team get much better?
Better question: do you think Pettersson and/or Gaudette will be better than McDavid? Or Draisaitl? Or Hall or Eberle or etc etc etc. Last time I checked nobody around here was calling Chiarelli or Lowe a good gm. So tell me why the Canucks will be better than the Oilers in two or three years.
Oh, and seeing as how you take care to ignore pro scouting, cap management, the fact our medical staff is a barrel of misery and clown farts, and...oh yeah, whether or not the team wins or loses any games, I can only assume you're a pretty tolerant guy. So it's surprising you're so hostile around here.