CuriousGeorge
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I'd bet anything if Gillis had stuck around one more year and got to add the 2014 draft under his belt he would have dropped this ridiculous label. The GM alone doesn't do the drafting, the core issue is that we had a horrible scouting group left over from the Burke/Nonis era, and Gillis mistake was in taking too long to start fixing it. Once it did get fixed up though it didn't really have enough time to establish itself, as the Crawford led group only got in what two drafts? And out of that we got Horvat, Hutton, and Gaunce.
Now I like Judd Bracket, and one thing you can say for Benning is we haven't gone back to Burke/Nonis era drafting, but I don't really see Bracket being as much an improvement over Crawford to justify swapping Gillis for Benning.
I say extend him. Lou Lamoriello early years as a Devils GM was horrendous too. But they didn't give up on him, he made some mistakes as everyone would.
Under Jb's leader ship, drafting has vastly improved, some bad trades, he also made some good trades.
I say extend him.
Didn't he immediately deliver the devils their first winning season in franchise history?
Literally his first season as GM the Devils went from missing the playoffs to the ECF.
Comparing Jim Benning to Lou Lamoriello is just weird.
Who's available?
Who's available?
i can't stand it when people give a list of benning draft picks, as though another individual in his position wouldn't have drafted any players with the picks the canucks have had in the past few years
every nhl organization gets 7 draft picks per year for free, unless they trade them away (which benning has been more than happy to do), and the majority of top prospects in these organizations will be players drafted in the first and second rounds
what's he done to maximise the canucks situation? restock the prospect pool beyond the picks that a struggling team would naturally acquire? it's frankly pathetic that the canucks keep finishing in the basement of the nhl and can't make the top 3 prospect rankings within their own division
Would love to see Benning back to run our drafts, but nothing more. I'm not completely in the camp of people who want to fire the whole management team. I'd rather add more pieces to it if that is at all possible. I think we all know it's not really possible, these guys have big ego's and probably can't make it work. I also doubt Aquilini would pay for a larger management team... so yeah, probably just easier to to drive him and his son down to the Amtrak station
Sure JV's a relative bust at 5 but I don't believe that was all Jimbo's doing
This roster was absolute trash behind the Sedins. Kesler screwed us.
Once again, most of you can't see the forest for the trees.
Wah wah wah Tkachuk scored some points. Benning can't say words properly. Big flippin deal.
Kesler didn't force us to trade for Bonino and Sbisa. And then Bonino for Sutter in turn.
Sure JV's a relative bust at 5 but I don't believe that was all Jimbo's doing
This roster was absolute trash behind the Sedins. Kesler screwed us.
Once again, most of you can't see the forest for the trees.
Wah wah wah Tkachuk scored some points. Benning can't say words properly. Big flippin deal.
Kesler didn't force us to trade for Bonino and Sbisa. And then Bonino for Sutter in turn.
What the hell were we gonna do with Bonino?
When was Murray ever gonna give up Theodore/Vatanen etc. Every single one of you wanted EMERSON ETEM.
Loui's expensive but he'll bounce back to some extent. Won't be the end of the world unless we win the lottery a couple of times in the next 2 years.
We're now getting into Benning's fourth season. He's had time to recover from big bad Kesler's trade demand.
Oh, and have a look at the roster. It's still trash and all the best players on it were still acquired by former GMs.
Keep his 1.9M salary and utilize his center abilities to feed Radim as well as all of the other wingers we currently have.
He's no Balls Mahoney but he's aight.