Best defensemen professionally scouted by Benning regime?

[Hodgy]

Who is it? Benning’s regime has had the better part of a decade to scout the below defensemen.

Bonus question: who is the second best defenseman?

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[CanucksMJL]

The real question is performance vs cap. Luke Schenn in a landslide.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Schmidt and he's gone now lol

 

[LaVal]

Best defensemen in general or best defensemen vs expectations?

If the former, Schmidt by a landslide. If the latter... sadly Schenn.

 

[KingofSurrey]

Wow, thats quite a list........ no wonder why we struggle to be a playoff team.

 

[Love]

No it’s different now guys, trust me. The defence is fine. We have former Norris contender OEL and “right handed Tanev” in Tucker Poolman.

 

[Peen]

Schmidt

Schenn by performance relative to cap hit

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

You missed Stecher I think. I think it's Schmidt, but obviously that didn't work out at all.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

“right handed Tanev” in Tucker Poolman.

My favourite part of this is that Tanev is right handed lmao

 

[Pip]

You missed Stecher I think. I think it's Schmidt, but obviously that didn't work out at all.

Stecher was not a pro scouting pick though

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Stecher was not a pro scouting pick though

Yes...well...pocket sand!

Reading is hard sometimes

 

[Dab]

Thought Schenn looked real serviceable in his first stint in Vancouver.

 

[Pip]

Easily Schmidt based on ability

 

[LordBacon]

Guddy for sure.
Best puck moving d in the game,
hands down

 

[CherryToke]

The only good dman on that list (Schmidt) wasn't even scouted. He was handed to them on a silver platter..

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Yikes! Next time put a warning on these threads. I nearly lost my breakfast reading that list.

 

[Jannik Hansen]

Where's the none of the above option?

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Yikes! Next time put a warning on these threads. I nearly lost my breakfast reading that list.

Should have put a warning on the Benning hire.

 

[Nucker101]

Schmidt..but the Knights apparently initiated the trade talks and Benning got rid of him less than a year later…so lol

 

[Love]

My favourite part of this is that Tanev is right handed lmao

Lol exactly

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

re: schenn, most likely he wasn’t even pro scouted the first time we got him. like jussi jokinen, he was just thrown in to offset cap hits and was a pleasant garbage time surprise. or like a decade ago when injuries forced us to call up and play brad lukowich for a month.

the schenn of next year and the year after, that guy we will have pro scouted.

 

[Iron Mike Sharpe]

You forgot Myers.

 

[LaVal]

You forgot Myers.

The truly sad part is that disregarding OEL since he hasn't played for Vancouver yet, Myers is probably the 2nd best overall defensemen when added to that list.

 

[AHLdepth]

This is a tiny bit off topic, but this sad conversation reminds me that my dream announcement would be that Brad Smith has joined the FO.

Brad Smith is the director of professional scouting for the Colorado Avalanche. Colorado's professional scouting is so so good bringing in Devon Toews for a great deal, and it was rumored that their second option was Mackenzie Weegar who also broke out this past season and a bit.

With a slew of other good under the radar pickups (Graves/Donskoi/+++) it's just so blatantly obvious how inept our professional scouts are.

 

[ChilliBilly]

Went with Schenn, based on value. OEL then Schmidt if based on skill. But Schmidt sure wasn't a $6 M D man here. Maybe 3. And the Canucks years really is dependent on whether OEL plays like a $7M player, or the most overpaid player in the league. Smart money is somewhere in the middle of that range.