that's a pretty virulent attack on me. being accused of lying and trolling are not things i can really respond to here.
let me answer as best i can.
first off, can you show me my posts in the tank thread and management threads that offend you and you want me to stop making? i am curious because i literally never post in either threads. i consider them a safe space for benning haters. true story. occasionally my posts end up in there when threads are merged but i don't think it has happened any time recently.
second, going through your past posts trying to figure out who the heck you are acting like you know me with all of 113 posts and never having had any dealings with you i can recall before this thread is a good learning experience. i now know i am certainly not alone in being attacked by you in your short tenure here. you seem to resort to insulting people almost immediately and everyone who disagrees with you seems to be a variation on an idiot or liar or hypocrite.
i will let 14 incisors speak for me in answering your attacks on me, although others you went after had some good responses too:
"Next time you have an opinion jot it down with your crayons and put it on the fridge—seems like you could use a safer space to post than an internet forum, since you can’t handle someone contesting your opinion without becoming aggravated and deflecting the discussion..."
you are the one who had brought up the crayons in that exchange, incidentally.
i also think it is worth summarizing your history here because it helps me understand how important gillis is to you, and why you are lashing out so hard at a gillis critic in this thread.
you joined in march 2016, and posted just once that year explaining you had
"pretty much stopped being involved with the canucks" when linden and benning took over, couldn't get along with people on cdc and also telling us how awesome gillis was. here is a money quote from your first ever post.
" I was against the hiring of Linden and Benning since the beginning and was very vocal about this on CDC since they took over... As I mentioned in my threads, MG was just getting his drafting in order and starting to turn his faults into advantages. MG would get this team back to its glory years in pretty short order since he's done it before...never underestimate a thinking/calculating man. "
https://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/114865715/
having apparently registered here to make the point that gillis was the most awesomest awesome thing ever, you then disappeared for over two years.
you returned this summer for your second post, to discuss the kesler trade. since then you seem to have only two points to make. (a) gillis was awesome and about to fix things and (b) current management and linden suck in all respects and everything they have done is bad and they suck and they are terrible and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. it's hard to find an actual discussion of a player or a game in your posts.
to that end, you have only 113 posts total on hfboards, but over 20% (25) of those posts alone are in this thread defending gillis (and attacking me for trashing gillis). you also posted a bunch in the linden firing thread to explain how he deserved to be fired, along with the weisbrod conspiracy thread, and you have a dozen posts in other threads defending gillis . most of the rest are attacking everything current management has ever done. there is a thread where you conceded demko was an ok pick in passing, but i disgress,
if i add up all your gillis related posts i get to 30% of your total posts.
considering all but one of those posts dates to 2018 that is an impressive fixation with a former nhl hockey exeutive who has done nothing newsworthy since 2014. i think if you like the guy so much maybe you should marry him.
one thing you won't find in a single post you have ever made here is a discussion of pettersson's play. your only substantive comment on pettersson to date i can find was a discussion about the canuck's internal prospect rankings.
"Granted, I think Hughes and Petterson will be in the top 2, but I'm not convinced they'll be game changers...especially in the playoffs."
you claim to be a die hard canuck fan but, apart from this, you do not have a single post commenting on or discussing pettersson's play, or quinn hughes' play for that matter. or even boeser's game. the only time they seem to come up in your posts is in discussions of benning era draft picks where you are downplaying benning's draft record by conceding these ones were ok but noting the misses.
very odd for a canuck fan right now, considering pettersson is the biggest thing to happen to the canucks in a long time.
in short, maybe you should pre-order your seattle jersey.
Ok, I'll explain myself.
I have been pissed off since the day MG got fired, and I take unwarranted insults towards him personally. I was in a heated debate with an entire fan base on CDC for approximately 6 months since that day. Literally (same user name if you want to verify). This interview and discussion has brought up a slew of memories and emotions for me.
Having said the above, I am ok with pointing out some faults like his drafting record if his draft position is taken into consideration. However, I get heated when common sense is put aside or arguments are posted that lack any common sense, this includes being unable to grasp a read on something straight-forward or misinterpreting the obvious.
I don't have the time to go through your post history, but I did go through the ones in this thread. AND...after re-reading, this thread I will admit that I got a bit fired up by the time I was responding to you. There were a lot of previous posts by others that fell into one of the categories I mentioned above. I did have an issue with yours, but I may have started to mix you up with others that I have mentioned often. My frustration was built up after reading continuous posts that were just ignorant, so I may have been fired up by the time I got to yours. Granted I gradually leaned towards more personal insults as our discussions went along. But your posts were becoming more hypocritical or false...
1) MG spending 4 years in exile - Linden was out longer and even so, there are plenty of ways to stay up-to-date in this day and age
2) Poor drafting record as evidence that only they would say GMs play a small role in drafting - in reality, any GM regardless of record would say the same (another poster quoted other GMs with better draft records proving my point)
3) Arguing that a GM's role requires more involvement is just not true, this is just something obvious and is ridiculous to argue.
4) After being proven wrong with direct quotes, you still question the validity and suggest it should be taken with a grain of salt. If you really wanted to promote discussions and are a 'reasonable person' that is not 'deliberately trying to misunderstand me and win an argument', you would have just accepted you were mistaken and moved on.
5) Your next post you accuse MG of not admitting failure and blaming others when in fact, his admission of not addressing the scouting staff is an admission of fault for any GM. The scouting staff is their responsibility.
6) You claim you didn't enjoy or appreciate the seasons we had here with him, something about 'lollipops and picnics'. I believe this to be a straight-out lie. I don't believe a single canuck fan didn't enjoy the seasons or at least the Playoff runs we had, excluding the final games where we got knocked out. Yes, I'll be honest, I get pissed when people don't show gratitude.
7) Double-standards. You mock MG and want to undermine what he said because he used an interview to promote himself. Everyone does this and it is normal and I pointed out how linbennbrod do it consistently to lie to us.
8) Yes, I called you out on the above and than you replied with some set 'standard' for 'reasonable posters', but your posts would fall into the fail category itself. I wouldn't mind if you followed your own standards, but you don't so I called you out on that.
Now, I will admit that my posts were more personal and you might have replied with stark due to emotions, that I can understand. However, your other comments on the standards of a 'reasonable poster' must be followed by yourself if you want others to abide. Personally, I wear my heart on a sleeve and I get pissed when common sense is ignored, false information is spread or blatent hypocrisy.
Hence, I apologize for any posts that you felt were too personal (I don't know which comments you were referring to). But, I still stand by my points saying that you evaded the truths, made false claims and were being very hypocritical in this thread.
Your second point. I already admitted that I may have been influenced by reading other posters before I read your first post in the latter part of this thread. I will say that my anger was unwarrented towards you in particular as there are others that post absurd things without any thought.
And NO, you are definitely not alone, however, I believe others deserve a strong reply if they continue to post lies, refute reason and act in complete ignorance. And they continue to repeat the same disproven arguments after they have been given reasonable facts and truths. We are human, there is a limit to what we are able to endure.
14incisors comments with me, I believe my response was quite witty...interesting you omitted that. Regardless, did you continue to read our argument? I believe we were able to end it very amicably. It's not difficult when two people can see their errors and admit faults.
Glad you can find that post on Gillis. Actually, the truth is and chairman mouth can verify, I posted twonew threads and they both got deleted. Hence, I decided to refrain from posting. And yes, I took a hiatus because I am a man of my word. It's actually been a lot longer than 2 years, it's been about 6 months after they got lindbenn got hired. I swore I would not support this organization with these two idiots in charge. I have also not spent a single penny on the canucks either.
Not posting does not mean I didn't follow the results, read the news or read HF...I've discontinued reading CDC. So I am very up-to-date with what is happening and if you check my posts on CDC, you will find I was correct on every one of my points and predictions, except for WD. If you want to compare track records of who's been proven correct since lindbenn, than I'm game. This might be the best way for us to resolve this issue of who has a better grasp on what's happening now and future implications.
I'm still trying to understand what you're trying to sherlock by going through my posts? haha
Btw, you just verified my points. You come to your own conclusions without putting any other thoughts in the process and deciding that your's is the only outcome possible. I proved all your theories wrong above or at least provided you with a more reasonable theory and you evade it. Again.
I suggest you go through my 'likes' as well...I didn't know that not commenting reflected anything? Or maybe it's because I will not allow myself to get excited and chose to sit and wait until bennbrod is gone. That is my first and only objective at the moment because there is NO future while they are still with the Canucks.
Marry Gilles? Really? Do you think I have a chance...do you think he'd be interested?
Are you insinuating I'm gay and if so, do you have an issue with gay people? I'll take offence to this one because I know a few people who are gay with one being a nephew of mine. So you can now go FU@K yourself with your high-horse attitude. Hope that this doesn't offend you unless you're into beastiality, than just FU@K yourself.
So Inspector Gadget, please go ahead and solve other irregularities and please post your evidence and conclusions. It's been very enlightening!
As I said, I wear my heart on my sleeve and don't try and 'act' like I'm someone else and try and set rules for people to be like my pretend-self. If this organization doesn't improve and play as a 'team', I will definitely have a 1A team to cheer for in Seattle.
Here's why bennbrod is my first priority. The non-reaction from this team after the body slam on Pete is inexcusable. And I'm not talking about a Bert-type retaliation, but there needs to be a scrum at minimum, players should be following through with their checks on all their stars. As for those players on the ice at the time, their first reaction should be to get in there...no time to think and no time for instructions from the coach. Build a team that has each others backs and that's what bonds a team together. bennbrod is just wasting cap space, not giving our prospects their fair due and straight-out lying about the kind of players he's acquiring or he just has no F'N clue on how to run a team.