Post-Game Talk: 1/9/18 | Canucks 1 at Caps 3 | You got the DUD!!!

[Wo Yorfat]

Having Gillis as gm was like dating a fun sexy girl who had an annoying laugh. Benning as gm is like dating a raccoon.

 

[PG Canuck]

Uh, I'm pretty sure he was referring to Gillis's drafting having no direction. And by drafting direction I'm assuming he meant selecting players that are good instead of all the trash that Gillis actually drafted.

I'm not going to defend Gillis' draft because it wasn't good, but he also wasn't drafting in the top 5 of every round.

 

[me2]

This is a refreshing view compared to the "every player on this team is absolutely awful and terrible except for Tanev, Boeser and Horvat" The Canucks don't have a enough high end talent to compete with the top lines in the league. A lot of the players on this team would do fine playing lesser roles on a team with a better core.

The Gillis scouting overhaul was too show but it looks pretty solid now, in fact, so solid that. Benning is leaching off that to save his job. Even Jim's best pick, Boeser, was not Jim's work but done by two of Gillis' recent scouting additions. It took too long but Gillis' work is paying dividends from the team.

 

[Hit the post]

Having Gillis as gm was like dating a fun sexy girl who had an annoying laugh. Benning as gm is like dating a raccoon.

? Sorry, I'm a little slow today; can you explain that?

 

[me2]

That makes no sense whats the connection bub? Better not be a racial thing like it looks like

I assumed it was to do with crying and waawaawaa the team sucks.

 

[Numba9]

I'm not going to defend Gillis' draft because it wasn't good, but he also wasn't drafting in the top 5 of every round.

Even if you take away Benning's top 10 picks, thus also taking away this supposed advantage that Benning had, Benning's draft record will likely still be significantly better than Gillis's draft record.

 

[me2]

Even if you take away Benning's top 10 picks, thus also taking away this supposed advantage that Benning had, Benning's draft record will likely still be significantly better than Gillis's draft record.

Except much of it isn't his draft record. He's had minimal impact on the scouting staff. Gillis era's last draft

Ehlers
McCann
Demko
Forsling
(Whatever for Tryamkin)

Pretty f***ing good draft Gillis left us with. Whatever started going right started going right before Jim got here.

 

[Wo Yorfat]

? Sorry, I'm a little slow today; can you explain that?

It'll have to be later. Garbage cans got knocked over.

 

[M2Beezy]

It'll have to be later. Garbage cans got knocked over.

But you had time to post this so your not making sense pal

 

[Wo Yorfat]

But you had time to post this so your not making sense pal

Sorry bub.

 

[PG Canuck]

Even if you take away Benning's top 10 picks, thus also taking away this supposed advantage that Benning had, Benning's draft record will likely still be significantly better than Gillis's draft record.

Okay, take away his top picks, we are left with:

Lockwood - likely not going to have an impact when he's having shoulder issues before he even sniffs pro.
Gaudette - He is definitely good
Demko - Tracking to be really good
Lind - Looking good, but again, he's basically a 1st round pick (33 overall)
Gadjovich - looks decent
DiPietro - looks decent
Rest of 2017 draft - to early to really tell, but not many players drafted in 2017 are absolute busts...for any team so no point evaluating.
McCann - traded
Tryamkin - bolted
Forsling - Traded
Candella - probably not much there
Abols - probably not much there
Stukel - probably not much there
McKenzie - probably not much there
Everyone else - probably not much there worth getting excited about

Looks amazing...and Benning still had the benefit of drafting in the top of each round.

 

[Numba9]

Looks amazing...and Benning still had the benefit of drafting in the top of each round.

Sorry you're wrong. How does Benning have an advantage if you don't count his top 10 picks? Gillis still has his late first rounders and Benning has his high second rounders. It's actually Gillis that has the advantage with the higher picks and also one extra pick in each draft.

 

[Cupless44]

No real need to have a drafting debate between Gillis and Benning.

While Benning is worse than Gillis at every other aspect of being a GM, his drafting is better than Gillis. Not a real high bar either. During the Gillis tenure, the Vancouver Canucks had the worst drafting in the entire NHL. It is a proven statistical fact. Not a single NHL team put less draft picks into the NHL from those drafts.