Former Canucks: Players & Management - Part 2 (The Ben Hutton Sweepstakes are over)

[F A N]

From 1st, 2nd, 4th to 7th & contract dump within 3 years.

Love to pay the highest price possible on declining assets.

In retrospect, excellent asset management by Benning

Murray should have kept Sbisa. Sbisa and Guds pairing has a lot of puck carrier separating potential.

 

[GetFocht]

Wow now that's a depreciating asset, glad we got Pearson out it before his worth bottomed out

 

[MS]

In retrospect, excellent asset management by Benning

Murray should have kept Sbisa. Sbisa and Guds pairing has a lot of puck carrier separating potential.

Better asset management would have been not re-signing him to a $12 million deal in 2018 after watching him absolutely suck for two seasons.

Even better asset management would have been trading him at the 2018 deadline when there were apparently offers and we could have got some picks back.

The best asset management would have been keeping an excellent young player in Jared McCann and a high draft pick and never touching this useless bum in the first place.

 

[VanJack]

Wow now that's a depreciating asset, glad we got Pearson out it before his worth bottomed out

Yep....it's isn't often you can say that Jimbo schooled a rival GM in a trade.....but after the Pens dumped Gudbranson for the equivalent of a seventh rounder and a career minor leaguer, Pearson for Guddy looks pretty lopsided now.

Seems like ions ago since Benning gave up McCann and bunch of draft picks for Gudranson, and then proclaimed him to be a 'top-four d-man who made a great first pass'. And then of course doubled down on the original bone-header by signing him to that ridiculous extension.

Maybe the Canucks GM has actually learned something?.....but then again, maybe not.

 

[StreetHawk]

Credit Rutherford for being able to clear a contract. Pretty much a nothing return but cleared $4 mill in cap through the end of next season.

 

[MS]

Credit Rutherford for being able to clear a contract. Pretty much a nothing return but cleared $4 mill in cap through the end of next season.

It's frankly astonishing that an NHL team was willing to take Gudbranson's full ticket back at this point. Even the most optimistic person could say he's maybe a #6 defender ... getting paid $4 million.

NHL GMs are stupid. That's 3 of them in the last year that thought it was a great idea to pay this fringe NHLer $4 million/year. When we question the intelligence and competence of NHL GMs and don't buy the appeals to authority about their moves, this is why.

 

[vancityluongo]

Never forget that pick for Gudbranson actually would've been Debrincat. I am 100% willing to charitably attribute that to Benning as great scouting since Botchford reported the interest well before the draft.