The second worst team in the NHL over the last 4 years is a good job according to you? Hitting on only 2 of his 4 top 10 picks is a good job according to you? That's some very low standards.
You sound like a broken record with this "worst team over the last 4 years" stuff which I'm not even sure is statistically accurate.
Like I said, Benning inherited a forward core whose offense would dry up and who would start to bleed goals defensively until they were among the least effective top lines in the league. AND they had NMC's. So what was Benning or anyone supposed to do about that?
Just to put it in perspective. When the Canucks were among the best teams in the league the Sedins were #1 in league scoring multiple times. When the Canucks were among the worst teams in the league the Sedins were #100 and #140 in league scoring. Notice a correlation?
I'm not blaming them at all by the way - injuries (f*** you to Duncan Keith and Martin Hanzal) and age related decline were factors but that's just the way it worked and the only alternative was to FORCIBLY TRADE them which is not how you treat people who gave as much to the city as the Twins did.
Onto the drafting, yes SMASHING picks like Boeser, Pettersson, and Hughes out of the park is amazing. Virtanen was a single, maybe a double if he can reach his potential - a very valuable NHLer who can impact the game with his tools. Juolevi is a flyball who's still up in the air - he could be a single, a double, a triple, or even a homerun depending on what he looks like in the NHL. No one is going to hit a homerun every at bat but notice how Benning doesn't strike out. That's the sign of a phenomenal drafter.