Can we all agree that there might be a greater-than-zero possibility that the Canucks are "in the playoff hunt" come January or so, a couple defensemen go down, and they end up paying a draft pick to acquire depth on D, who might even end up being Biega?
It won't be Biega, regardless of how he plays. I think there's a chance he plays well in Detroit and fetches a pick for Detroit at the Deadline, but if they were blind to him being useful when he was here I dont' see how it would dawn on them then.
There are bigger things wrong with this organization but this is the one that pisses me off the most.
It's just galling to see likable hard-working character guys come up through the system, play well enough that they should be cheap bottom-roster guys providing value to the organization, and then be constantly dumped on as this idiot GM parachutes overpaid garbage from other organizations in to play in front of them, and we get to watch a downgrade for $millions more.
Yeah.
Alex Biega has proven, time and time again, to be better than every single player that Jim Benning has brought in to play above him. Better than Luca Sbisa. Better than Matt Bartkowski. Better than Derrick Pouliot and Phil Larsen. Better than Michael Del Zotto and Erik Gudbranson. Every. Single. Year. Jim Benning says "Ah-HA Alex, I have a new challenge for you; you need to beat these guys out for jobs!" And every. Single. Year. Alex Biega plays better than the scrubs Jim Benning puts out there and every. Single. Year. He sits quietly in the press box and doesn't complain despite being demonstrably better than these guys who are being played ahead of him. And his reward for literally proving himself to be better than Benning's targets every year and then continuing to work hard and not complain while he gets shafted every year in favour of soon-to-be-out-of-the-league scrubs? "Sorry Alex, you have lost your job to (checks notes) Oscar Fantenberg." Why. Honestly, why? Who the f*** is Oscar Fantenberg? What has Oscar *checks notes again* Fantenberg done for this organization? Is he better than Biega? Given this team's track record I would argue it is extremely unlikely. Almost impossible that this team has managed to find a cheap upgrade here given their track record. Given what we've seen literally for 4 straight years, are you really willing to believe that something different would happen this year? After 4 straight years of this clueless staff playing scrubs ahead of Biega, scrubs who played a full season in Vancouver and then couldn't find a job in the NHL after? But Fanten...what's his name, again? Fantaneberg is the guy! This one is going to stick. You want to believe that? You want to put any money on that? At best, at BEST, there is WHAT, a 25% chance that he might get you 1 more point in the standings than Biega over the course of a season, MAYBE? I think that's probably being generous. And that was worth it for some reason? Why? Seriously, WHY?
It's a joke. It's a complete joke. It's nauseating. It's honestly sickening to support this team right now. They just get more and more unlikeable with each season.