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Now there have been countless stories on Benning's mismanagement of the team, especially lately. This has to take the cake though.
I Was Meant To Be a Hab | By Tyler Toffoli
Benning traded a 2nd round pick + Tyler Madden, whom insiders said had a value of a late 1st to early 2nd round pick at the time around the league, for 2 months of Toffoli. Toffoli comes in and instantly fits in and is one of our top players. Benning proceeds to not even make an offer to a player that wanted to end his career here after pissing away top assets for him.
Stetcher and Tanev both said this happened to them too this past offseason. In their cases, they were told to wait and the Canucks would get back to them. They waited a few days and never heard back so they ended up signing with other teams. With Tanev, once Benning got wind of Chris signing elsewhere, He tried calling Tanev but Tanev ignored his calls due to the lack of communication leaving him feeling disrespected.
Benning did deny the stories about Tanev and Stetcher, saying he made them offers and was in constant communication with them, but where theres smoke theres fire. Thats now 3 players + Friedman who have said this management just waits and waits and does nothing unless they are 100% committed to the player. Thats when they get things done right away like they did with Demko and Pearson. We saw this with Tryamkin 2 years in a row as well.
Hard to believe Benning when JT Miller has to publicly come out and be the voice of the team for their return to play. It turned out what happened with their return was the original plan if players didnt feel well enough after their 1st skate back, it just wasn't communicated to the players properly. This has soured quite a few players on this management team.
Its not just the players that get dicked around. the coach has too. It was reported the Canucks made an offer to Green a few weeks ago when they were in Toronto. Everyone knew it was the Canucks leaking this as reports surfaced 1-2 weeks before this that the Canucks would make an offer when they are in Toronto. Then the next week after the reported offer was made it came into question as to whether the Canucks actually tabled an offer! Now it has been confirmed they havent made an offer at all to Green!
So Benning has a clear history of lying to the media and having poor communicational skills. I would not trust anything he says.
To summarize, Benning has been in charge of the front office for 7 years now. In 5 of 6 end of year pressers, he has come out and used injuries and depth as an excuse for those 5 poor seasons. How has he identified a clear issue (depth) and not been able to address it in 7 years? The GM has been caught with his pants down saying he ran out of time, but then when asked about timelines for upcoming decisions he says he's not worried about it right now because he has a lot of time (in the case of the quote it was around 2 weeks he had to sign or trade Pearson). He has made sure to ruin relationships with past and current players with his inability to pick up a phone and communicate and then publicly call them liars when he's been exposed. He's proven he cant even follow basic NHL rules when he was charged for tampering by talking about PK Subban in an interview.
He cant even construct a roster. Our worst 6 skaters have a higher cap hit combined compared to our best 6!
Can anyone really say there is a worse GM and or front office after this year?
EDIT: word is coming out our best goalie prospect (dipietro) missed games on our farm team SOLELY owned and operated by the Canucks because we allowed the STL Blues to loan their players to our team since their affiliate opted out, and that they wanted their goalie to play more games. Now this guy is mismanaging his own prospects in favour of other teams for absolutely 0 reason!
this is actually just unbelievable
it keeps getting worse. Green confirmed gadjovich and Lockwood are ineligible to play the rest of this season as the Canucks are out of call ups. How does Benning not know this before he sent these guys off to quarantine and miss ahl games and practices?!?
May as well botch all our prospects careers since he can’t do it any further with the nhl team
I Was Meant To Be a Hab | By Tyler Toffoli
That’s why I wanted to come back to Vancouver. I could have seen myself finishing out my career there. But hockey is a business, I understand that. And at the end of the day, there was no offer from the Canucks’ end, so we had to go another direction. It was disappointing, but I knew that there was going to be a team out there that wanted me and saw me for the player I know I am.
Benning traded a 2nd round pick + Tyler Madden, whom insiders said had a value of a late 1st to early 2nd round pick at the time around the league, for 2 months of Toffoli. Toffoli comes in and instantly fits in and is one of our top players. Benning proceeds to not even make an offer to a player that wanted to end his career here after pissing away top assets for him.
Stetcher and Tanev both said this happened to them too this past offseason. In their cases, they were told to wait and the Canucks would get back to them. They waited a few days and never heard back so they ended up signing with other teams. With Tanev, once Benning got wind of Chris signing elsewhere, He tried calling Tanev but Tanev ignored his calls due to the lack of communication leaving him feeling disrespected.
Benning did deny the stories about Tanev and Stetcher, saying he made them offers and was in constant communication with them, but where theres smoke theres fire. Thats now 3 players + Friedman who have said this management just waits and waits and does nothing unless they are 100% committed to the player. Thats when they get things done right away like they did with Demko and Pearson. We saw this with Tryamkin 2 years in a row as well.
Hard to believe Benning when JT Miller has to publicly come out and be the voice of the team for their return to play. It turned out what happened with their return was the original plan if players didnt feel well enough after their 1st skate back, it just wasn't communicated to the players properly. This has soured quite a few players on this management team.
Its not just the players that get dicked around. the coach has too. It was reported the Canucks made an offer to Green a few weeks ago when they were in Toronto. Everyone knew it was the Canucks leaking this as reports surfaced 1-2 weeks before this that the Canucks would make an offer when they are in Toronto. Then the next week after the reported offer was made it came into question as to whether the Canucks actually tabled an offer! Now it has been confirmed they havent made an offer at all to Green!
So Benning has a clear history of lying to the media and having poor communicational skills. I would not trust anything he says.
To summarize, Benning has been in charge of the front office for 7 years now. In 5 of 6 end of year pressers, he has come out and used injuries and depth as an excuse for those 5 poor seasons. How has he identified a clear issue (depth) and not been able to address it in 7 years? The GM has been caught with his pants down saying he ran out of time, but then when asked about timelines for upcoming decisions he says he's not worried about it right now because he has a lot of time (in the case of the quote it was around 2 weeks he had to sign or trade Pearson). He has made sure to ruin relationships with past and current players with his inability to pick up a phone and communicate and then publicly call them liars when he's been exposed. He's proven he cant even follow basic NHL rules when he was charged for tampering by talking about PK Subban in an interview.
He cant even construct a roster. Our worst 6 skaters have a higher cap hit combined compared to our best 6!
Can anyone really say there is a worse GM and or front office after this year?
EDIT: word is coming out our best goalie prospect (dipietro) missed games on our farm team SOLELY owned and operated by the Canucks because we allowed the STL Blues to loan their players to our team since their affiliate opted out, and that they wanted their goalie to play more games. Now this guy is mismanaging his own prospects in favour of other teams for absolutely 0 reason!
this is actually just unbelievable
it keeps getting worse. Green confirmed gadjovich and Lockwood are ineligible to play the rest of this season as the Canucks are out of call ups. How does Benning not know this before he sent these guys off to quarantine and miss ahl games and practices?!?
May as well botch all our prospects careers since he can’t do it any further with the nhl team
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