But your vote on average was based only on his post 2017 deadline work because as you mentioned he screwed up before then correct?
I forgot to add this earlier, so I will add it here:
PoM's rationale has three arbitrary and subjective cut-off points:
1. He imposes an ownership mandate on Benning and Linden in 2014, while not acknowledging the possibility of complete alignment between all three parties.
2. He dislikes Benning's work pre-2017 TDL, and likes his work post-2017 TDL. This constitutes not liking 2.5 years of Benning's 5.5 year tenure.
3. Anything pre-extention in 2018 is absolved because of the extension, despite the extension only being 2 years (3rd year is a club option)...
Effectively, PoM is absolving Benning's responsibility pre-2017 TDL despite not liking his work over that same span. That's almost half his tenure washed away because of an assumed directive from Aquilini that was imposed upon Benning. Nothing about Benning's execution of that directive and nothing about Benning being aligned with that directive.
So that's 2.5 years to the negative. Now let's look at the remaining 3 years: Prior to this year, the Canucks have been the worst team over a 3 year span. This poor win ratio window straddles the 2017 deadline. 1.5 years came before said TDL, an 1.5 years came after. In other words, PoM is including 1.5 years of the worst hockey into his 3 year positive evaluation of Benning. Logical?
Then follows the 2017 FA season, the 2018 deadline and the 2018 offseason:
2017 FA - Benning signs Nilsson, Vanek, Gagner as his main acquisitions. All but Vanek flopped.
2018 TDL - Media and fans panned the Vanek deal and were OK with the Leipsic trade.
2018 FA - Signing Beagle, Roussel and Schaller was criticized.
Trades, signings, and team win percentage over this time span have been below par.
In summary, PoM is using 60% of this season, 50 games, and the Pettersson draft to judge Benning to be average overall. He does this knowing that for at least 1.5 years of the time that he liked Benning's work, the team was the worst in the NHL. During this same preferred time period, Benning's work in 2017 + 2018 FA periods and the 2018 TDL was largely panned.
This is the logic behind his opinion here.
