Do you think Benning individually scouted Tryamkin/Forsling/Gaudette.
Honest question, do you think that he watched more then 2 games of these players?
Are you one of those people who think Benning individually scouted all of the players in the draft to make a call on them. That he did the job of an entire scouting department all by himself? All while being a general manager of a NHL team.
No but obviously that scouting department in 2014 was assembled by him, right? I mean he had like 3 days to put it together. Amazing that he could put such a brilliant scouting team together on such little time, and weird that the results trailed off after that.
You two, of course, make salient posts, but I wanted to break this down further:
RMB's claim: Benning is a top5 drafter. His evidence:
- A 2 year sample, why?
- An NHLer/Non-NHLer arbitrary marker. I believe it's 30 games in this case because he counts 6 NHLers for the Canucks and Gaudette has only played 30 games.
- The GM makes the picks, not the scouts. It's funny, but in order to keep things simple let's attribute everything to the GM.
- GM started 3 days prior to the draft.
- No accounting of pick strength.
- No assessment of the strength forgone by picking the weaker prospect.
But anyways, let's roll with this. RMB, here's my retort: Nonis was equally as good within a 2 year sample and his teams reached the playoffs at a better rate than Benning. Why was he fired? From 2004 to 2005, he picked 6 NHLers at a 46% success ratio.
Forget Gillis, they should have never fired Nonis amirite?! #Facts