Confirmed with Link: Canucks extend Jim Benning’s contract

[Fire Benning]

Time to hit the Liquor store.

 

[Kel Varnson]

This is the absolute worst

 

[Johnny Canucker]

No other GM has missed the playoffs for as long as JB and still has a job. That’s an actual fact. Not only do we not fire him, we extend him lol.

We are the oilers (before McDavid) for the last / next 10 years.

 

[Star Ocean]

he brought some good players and some bad players. no GM has a perfect track record.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

he brought some good players and some bad players. no GM has a perfect track record.

He’s the only GM to miss the playoffs for the last 4 years still employed.

 

[geebaan]

Well there’s goes pretty much all interest I had in the long term future of this team.

 

[Peter10]

Good bye

 

[valkynax]

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Canucks
Lions
Whitecaps.



Laughing stock of a sports city.

 

[Red]

f***ing unbelievable.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

he brought some good players and some bad players. no GM has a perfect track record.

Congrats on the extension JB! Thanks for posting on here right after you signed it up!

 

[StreetHawk]

The extension probably means nothing if the team tanks, but on principle this sucks

Exactly. It just eliminates the lame duck gm rhetoric which the club doesn’t need right now. I’m betting they just picked up the option year.

So regardless his future is dependent on how they perform this year. If they are a sub 90 point team he likely gets axed.

Just the cost of doing business in sports.

 

[vancityluongo]

we need dwight to become manager so he can finally fire kevin

 

[TJ21]

One day, I'll be able to finally change my profile picture along with the Survive Jimbocalypse tag line.




But it is not this day.

 

[Phenomenon13]

Wow he might actually end up being the longest tenured gm in our history.

 

[timw33]

Wow he might actually end up being the longest tenured gm in our history.

And also the least successful GM in our history. Those two things should not go together.

 

[Jack Burton]

WTF!

It was speculation like 5 mins ago....I go out for a smoke and now it's a confirmation!

I need a drink!

 

[Jack Burton]

Oh well.

There goes another decade.

 

[geebaan]

Pom and Alternate should be the happiest people on Earth today

 

[Phenomenon13]

Bennings job security is amazing. Chiarelli coming in as president wont even surprise me anymore.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Jim Benning has officially reached Kevin Lowe levels of “should have been fired years ago.”

I can’t believe the General Manager of a multimillion dollar corporation that has severely underperformed for the last four years just got an extension. I wouldn’t be surprised if he even got a raise at this point too.

It literally boggles the mind.

 

[flying v 604]

Are you kidding? What a joke of a franchise.

I love how there was a thread on who our next GM would be and Benning supporters like me and the majority of the actual fanbase, not the HF haters kept saying he deserved and would be extended. I bet if a poll showing age of Benning haters was done ot would be mostly millenials. Haters seem to expect every trade, signing, draft pick to work out. They also want every trade to be our garbage for a top pick, player, or prospect. Beninng has made mistakes, but at least they going forward have been rectified or wont be any type of anchor. He had an uphill battle, and has assembled a team that has an electrifying young core, a deep prospect pool, and a ton of cap space the next four years. Benning haters have been rehashing the same garbage for 3 years. Time to move on and enjoy what Benning has put together.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Hahahahahahaha hahaha hahahahahahaha haha hahahahahahaha ha ha

 

[Baby Pettersson]

On the bright side we can get some more high first round draft picks.

Oh wait ...

 

[RobertKron]

I love how there was a thread on who our next GM would be and Benning supporters like me and the majority of the actual fanbase, not the HF haters kept saying he deserved and would be extended. I bet if a poll showing age of Benning haters was done ot would be mostly millenials. Haters seem to expect every trade, signing, draft pick to work out. They also want every trade to be our garbage for a top pick, player, or prospect. Beninng has made mistakes, but at least they going forward have been rectified or wont be any type of anchor. He had an uphill battle, and has assembled a team that has an electrifying young core, a deep prospect pool, and a ton of cap space the next four years. Benning haters have been rehashing the same garbage for 3 years. Time to move on and enjoy what Benning has put together.

Literally, this is exactly what "haters" were yelled at for saying back when the line was that Benning could find an NHL player with every pick, and is what they continue to get yelled at for pointing out every time people decide that things look really good for the future because ~85% of Canuck prospects are apparently going to hit their ceiling.