Why do you put the draft picks given away in small font when the draft picks received are in regular font? Bit weird.
Anyway, Grenier is also OUT as he signed with Florida. EDIT: As did Curtis Valk.
Chad Billins went to SHL.
We also traded down at the draft. Not sure if you want to include that trade.
This.
Paying to get rid of a player like Kassian was so incredibly stupid it's hard to put into words. Only an idiot like Jim Benning would sign off on that.
Y2koilers is bang on, on this one. The trade looks to be not only bad, but in retrospect horrid. The Canucks could have just picked up a Kris Russell for free, kept McCann and their pick. Gudbranson really does not seem to be good at anything. Oilers called this one right. Good job, Oilers. You da man (I think....you never answered me on that).
About as logical as saying it is a smart move to double down on a BlackJack hand after being dealt a natural blackjack & getting a face card.You guys exaggerate. It's pretty straightforward. If McCann becomes no better than a replacement level player, as is likely, and the 2nd stays true to to form, as in nothing becomes of it, then the deal is a push even if Gudbranson doesn't get dealt at the deadline and we loose him for nothing!
At the time Kassian was very, very border line.
While I haven't liked much of what Benning etal have done here so far this ended up being the best for everyone especially Kassian.
It is good he finally seems to have his stuff together, but it will be hard for him for the next few years to keep himself clean.
I see a pattern. Do you?
- Kassian wasn't close to borderline at the end of the 13-14 season.
- Kassian officially became borderline in the 14-15 season.
- Kassian didn't know what WD wanted
- Virtanen didn't know what WD wanted
- Tryamkin didn't know what WD was doing
But Horvat, Hutton, Stecher, Baertschi, Granlund did?
Coach deserves some blame for his tenure here..
But the players deserve the lionshare of the criticism for the way they acted, trained, played... and the level of professionalism THEY brought to the table.
Scapegoating the outgoing coach is a copout and an absolution of accountability on those aforementioned players. Falls on their shoulders most of all.
Yes.It's almost like these hockey players are human beings and Kassian and Horvat have different ways they think, learn, receive and process information and it's the coach's responsibility to adapt his communication style to how that specific human receives it the best.
If you hadn't noticed, we were scapegoating WD WHILE he was the coach but now, even though we have players-no-longer-on-the-active-roster being interviewed talking about they didn't understand what was going on from a ice time allocation perspective, you are still shifting the "lionshare" of the blame on the player?
No worries, he's got Fletcher Christian watching his back.You must be great at managing people.
No worries, he's got Fletcher Christian watching his back.
Willie is a AHL coach...that's ALL on Benning for hiring a AHL coach to be the head coach of the Canucks.
You've been banging that 'trap system' drum for weeks now,despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary...Is Green just going to go full Willie 'trap mode' and take the league by surprise?A lot of folks are already saying how good a job Benning has done this year.
I don't get it as the season has hardly even begun.
They are raving about Virtanen, he is playing better and outside of the punishing hitter 3rd/4th line role right now. Once Green institutes his trap system JB might not be here very long.
I have always said if they want him to be a top six player the team should emphasize his skills other than hitting, if anything they should have told him to tone it down. Virtanen has great acceleration and a heavy wrist shot. Those skills could make him a valuable asset in any trade for a bonafide 1rst line NHL player. On this team with this management group he will always be seen as a big hitter first.
No worries, he's got Fletcher Christian watching his back.
Willie is a AHL coach...that's ALL on Benning for hiring a AHL coach to be the head coach of the Canucks.
we don't have 2 2nds next year(yet) and minus the 4th.
To be fair, I remember Willie implementing a very aggressive style that ended up getting torn apart (especially by the Rangers iirc). After that he played much more of a trap style. I don’t necessarily blame him too much for that switch either, as trapping is probably the best way for unkilled teams to be competitive.You've been banging that 'trap system' drum for weeks now,despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary...Is Green just going to go full Willie 'trap mode' and take the league by surprise?
To be fair, I remember Willie implementing a very aggressive style that ended up getting torn apart (especially by the Rangers iirc). After that he played much more of a trap style. I don’t necessarily blame him too much for that switch either, as trapping is probably the best way for unkilled teams to be competitive.
Just look at the Utica stats, Green is a trap coach, shot for, shots against, goals for, goals against, who was scoring and individual stats and of course the standings. For a wide open system that team sure didn't get many shots per game and allowed more.You've been banging that 'trap system' drum for weeks now,despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary...Is Green just going to go full Willie 'trap mode' and take the league by surprise?
Just look at the Utica stats, Green is a trap coach, shot for, shots against, goals for, goals against, who was scoring and individual stats and of course the standings. For a wide open system that team sure didn't get many shots per game and allowed more.
I hate when other do or post this but, what on earth is the evidence that he isn't using a trap system? Or a left side lock?