Pre-Game Talk: 2019-20 Pro-Team Tank Thread - To Infinity and Beyond!

[xtra]

We're all in for a stealth Stanley cup run to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the franchise. It's important to Mr Aquilini that we take a run at it this year even if we have to move another first at the deadline.

We're all in!

Idk if your joking but bennings talk about getting another top 6 forward makes me wonder with what? Podz or the first that Tampa doesn’t get?

 

[VanillaCoke]

Excellent. Gif

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Idk if your joking but bennings talk about getting another top 6 forward makes me wonder with what? Podz or the first that Tampa doesn’t get?

Woo, Madden, 2nd rounders...

 

[tyhee]

We're all in for a stealth Stanley cup run to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the franchise. It's important to Mr Aquilini that we take a run at it this year even if we have to move another first at the deadline.

We're all in!

Written without even an emoji to let new posters know you aren't crazy!

This past spring and summer some of us were posting about Benning being kept on in a situation where he had to make the playoffs to get an extension. Some of us were worried that it meant he was inevitably going to do things like sign an overrated defenceman for too much money, too much term and too much trade protection, give a veteran physical forward who had a huge run of injuries late last season the money he'd have been worth a few years ago and for too much term, and trade away 1st and 3rd round picks for present help to enable the team to try to compete for the playoffs.

And so it happened. Aquilini's way of dealing with it wasn't to fire the GM but to extend him so he had job security.

Now we've got the team on a bad run for the last month and a half or so and even though they're not out of the hunt, I'm getting really worried about what Benning is going to do. He's recently been quoted as looking for a scoring winger (Eriksson, Ferland etc not having worked out) but he's got a capped out team and little in the way of trade assets good enough to get that kind of player. So what will he do?

My guess is he'll be looking at trading a bad contract and another high pick or picks for another aging winger who has scored at some time in his past.

Imo Benning's signings and trades have already cost the team for the long-term. If he's left to his own devices through the trade deadline he may very well make things even worse.

 

[tantalum]

Not a great tank night except we got to witness another pathetic effort by the team for the first 30 minutes and the Canucks giving up the first goal, for what,the 25th time this year? Chasing the game yet again.

But as expected they had a competitive final 30 and it’s all “they deserved more” “bad luck” etc etc etc. No they didn’t. You fail to play a competitive game for the first 30 or 40 minutes you don’t deserve anything. The Sharks last night while they started to be on the wrong side of the play never gave up. They continued to play the system they continued to get chances themselves. The Canucks are just a team since the end of October that isn’t playing 60 minutes or perhaps more fitting...not capable of playing 60 minutes.

And all this is scary because you have a GM who has finally said he doesn’t deal in long term planning. It’s all the here and now. So what stupidity does he have up his sleeve when he hits desperation mode? And that quote earlier this week should also sink anyone’s argument that he had any sort of rebuild plan. He doesn’t plan. It’s been obvious in his moves he doesn’t but finally confirmation right from the horses mouth.

16 wins. 17 losses. Lol.

 

[B-rock]

Not a great tank night except we got to witness another pathetic effort by the team for the first 30 minutes and the Canucks giving up the first goal, for what,the 25th time this year? Chasing the game yet again.

But as expected they had a competitive final 30 and it’s all “they deserved more” “bad luck” etc etc etc. No they didn’t. You fail to play a competitive game for the first 30 or 40 minutes you don’t deserve anything. The Sharks last night while they started to be on the wrong side of the play never gave up. They continued to play the system they continued to get chances themselves. The Canucks are just a team since the end of October that isn’t playing 60 minutes or perhaps more fitting...not capable of playing 60 minutes.

And all this is scary because you have a GM who has finally said he doesn’t deal in long term planning. It’s all the here and now. So what stupidity does he have up his sleeve when he hits desperation mode? And that quote earlier this week should also sink anyone’s argument that he had any sort of rebuild plan. He doesn’t plan. It’s been obvious in his moves he doesn’t but finally confirmation right from the horses mouth.

16 wins. 17 losses. Lol.

What quote? What did he go and say now?

 

[tantalum]

What quote? What did he go and say now?

Something along the lines about not worrying about the expansion draft and the goaltending stuff if they re-sign Markstrom because being a GM is about the now.

 

[Peter10]

What quote? What did he go and say now?

Below is taken from latest Markstrom article in the Athletic, guess this is what tantalum meant

“We live day-to-day in this business. The expansion draft’s a long ways away. Who knows what could happen between now and then even with other teams in the league. There’s other teams that are three goalies deep that are going to lose a real good young goalie. We’re aware of it and we talk about it obviously to plan for it, but it’s so far away that I don’t lose much sleep worrying about that.”

 

[xtra]

Well these next 3 games with 2 vs Vegas are huge could put us 7 points back of the knights.

min fact the next 7 have us playing 4 games against teams we are directly chasing

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

This is a wonderful Christmas gift. I no longer care if I get a pony.

 

[Starships]

delicious

 

[Cancuks]

A Christmas turd for everyone to enjoy!

 

[xtra]

A Christmas turd for everyone to enjoy!

Is it asking too much for another one on the 19

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

Full steam ahead. Injuries and losses will start to really pile up on this tire fire.

this team is totally outclassed against good teams.

 

[vanuck]

Let's keep 'er rolling!

 

[xtr3m]

 

[Grumbler]

Management and Team needs to be ripped to shreds from head to toe. Management full of incompetent money laundering idiots who are only out to save their own asses. Team is full of mentally fragile, lazy, skilless snowflakes that crumble in the face of any little adversity. Gotta stop the cycle of fostering these types of personnel the past few years so everything needs to be reset.

 

[Addison Rae]

#FireBenning

 

[xtr3m]

#FireBenning

Sadly they'll probably just fire Green giving Benning more time. He will then mortgage the organization's future even more.

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

#FireBenning

Only way that happens is if the crowd starts chanting it at games.

Sadly a lot of casual fans think everything is fine. In reality it’s rotting corpse being hidden by a nice picture frame (Hughes Pettersson).

 

[Pavel96]

Came back from a walk, canucks had scored, and then almost instantly vegas scored. Sweet! Tis the Season!!

 

[Pavel96]

Is it asking too much for another one on the 19

Of course not!

 

[PG Canuck]

Sadly they'll probably just fire Green giving Benning more time. He will then mortgage the organization's future even more.

Benning isn’t going to be able to fire two coaches and not have the spotlight on him. Firing green would be the dumbest thing he could do so it’s not going to happen.

 

[xtra]

Am I wrong but is it possible that the canucks could have 8.7 million in dead cap space?

2.8 mil for petersson and Hughes if they hit both set of bonuses and 3.1 million for lui???

 

[opendoor]

Am I wrong but is it possible that the canucks could have 8.7 million in dead cap space?

2.8 mil for petersson and Hughes if they hit both set of bonuses and 3.1 million for lui???

Hughes doesn't have any Schedule B bonuses, so he's only a risk for $850K, though he'll likely max out his Schedule A ones (Pettersson probably will too). Gaudette might pick up some from his $850K as well.