Howie Hodge
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You have to ask how many other teams would swap their squads for the squad Benning has assembled.
How many do you guess?
The answer will gauge his ability.
How many do you guess?
The answer will gauge his ability.
You have to ask how many other teams would swap their squads for the squad Benning has assembled.
How many do you guess?
The answer will gauge his ability.
The answer is 0 if we ignore teams that JUST started rebuilding
close to 5 years time while finishing at the bottom every single season we have:
Pettersson, Boeser, and Hughes and no other player worthy of a 2nd round pick (not including pre 2014 Gillis guys like Horvat and Hutton)
our prospect pool is weaker than the Rangers who started rebuilding last year
from a cup contender to a dumpster fire with a few gifted tank picks (3), like I even predicted Linden Benning were heading the wrong direction and that Shanahan Lou/Dubas/Hunter were on the right path
Are you on crack? The Canucks have one of the top prospect pools in the NHL.
Are you on crack? The Canucks have one of the top prospect pools in the NHL.
I still take him over Chevy, Snow and Chia. Chevy is a terrible GM and I have laid out my reasoning for this many, many times. At the time, Sakic appeared to be fubaring the Duchene situation and Washington had not accomplished anything. I think it aged just fine.Ooof this did not age well... since this post was made-
MacLellan won the Stanley cup
Chevaldayoff went to the Western Conference finals
Sakic made probably one of the greatest trades of the cap-era and his team made the playoffs after being a lottery team
You are still right on Snow and Chia though
our 3rd best prospect is Madden or Juolevi, if that is not at best average or down right atrocious for a team that is at the bottom of the standings year in year out idk what is
"Just look at the 2016 draft, 6 picks which were:
Olli Juolevi
Will Lockwood
Cole Candella
Jakob Stukel
Rodrigo Abols
Brett Mckenzie
5 of those picks are no longer in the organization. That’s astonishingly bad for a team who finished 28th that season."
6 draft picks while lottery
It was one of the top prospect pools because of top 10 picks that we got for being a terrible hockey team.
https://www.tsn.ca/statistically-speaking-nhl-draft-pick-value-1.786131our 3rd best prospect is Madden or Juolevi, if that is not at best average or down right atrocious for a team that is at the bottom of the standings year in year out idk what is
"Just look at the 2016 draft, 6 picks which were:
Olli Juolevi
Will Lockwood
Cole Candella
Jakob Stukel
Rodrigo Abols
Brett Mckenzie
5 of those picks are no longer in the organization. That’s astonishingly bad for a team who finished 28th that season."
6 draft picks while lottery
I'll start off by saying I haven't exactly been the biggest fan of Jim Benning.
I believe the hate he gets on these boards is over the top. He is being called the worst GM in the league and is being compared to Milbury by some
I'm not saying that Benning is a great GM but he is far from the worst of all time or even the worst in the last 10 years (MacTavish, Waddell, MacLean, Gauthier, Burke)
He hasn't made any franchise crippling moves like some GMs yet he is being called the worst?
Yep people overlook his many mistakes for his few good moves. No doubt Brock and Elias were great picks but he’s made a lot of terrible picks and signed some highly questionable contracts.^ What you just described shows how bad Benning is at drafting. In fact I'd go as far as to say he's one of the worst GMs in the entire league at drafting.
It's been 5 drafts and really the only players worth mentioning that have proven anything, are Pettersson and Boeser. 5 DRAFTS and that's all we have to show for it so far.
He's the worst GM in the league right now by far and honestly I haven't seen one as bad as him since Milbury.
Nucks will be a Bottom 5-10 team in the league for a long time. Bottom 3 this year I think.
Our 3rd best prospect is Juolevi a guy who prior to being injured was leading the entire AHL in pts for rookie defensemen! Will Lockwood looks like he'll be a good player as well. Not even counting EP look at the prospect depth. It's definitely a top 5 prospect pool IMO far from atrocious.
- Hughes
- Thatcher Demko
- Olli Juolevi
- Jonathan Dahlen
- Adam Gaudette
- Kole Lind
- Michael DiPietro
- Jett Woo
- Tyler Madden
I still take him over Chevy, Snow and Chia. Chevy is a terrible GM and I have laid out my reasoning for this many, many times. At the time, Sakic appeared to be fubaring the Duchene situation and Washington had not accomplished anything. I think it aged just fine.
Yep people overlook his many mistakes for his few good moves. No doubt Brock and Elias were great picks but he’s made a lot of terrible picks and signed some highly questionable contracts.
Canucks biggest blunder may have been letting a rival team get tkachuk
Do yourself a favor and look at how many teams have players after the first round on the team rn. From 2015 onwards.^ What you just described shows how bad Benning is at drafting. In fact I'd go as far as to say he's one of the worst GMs in the entire league at drafting.
It's been 5 drafts and really the only players worth mentioning that have proven anything, are Pettersson and Boeser. 5 DRAFTS and that's all we have to show for it so far.
Do yourself a favor and look at how many teams have players after the first round on the team rn. From 2015 onwards.
Best teams rn
TBL - 2 from 2015
Nashville - 1 from 2016
Sabres - none, until guhle is ready (2015)
Leafs - 1 from 2015
jets - none
That's 3 teams that have finished a rebuild and 2 who have generally just been top teams, able to draft (though Nashville seems to trade their guys). Canucks have Gaudette. I think people's expectations here are flawed, you expect Benning to be good at this yet you're impatient and don't want to wait
Edit: also look at the link in the beginning of that post, it gives statistics on what to expect from later picks.
This is common around the league. You have to wait. Btw, Vilardi was BPA over Pettersson for many people. Boeser was actually projected to go later as well. So picking BPA isn't always the right move, this is usually the argument cause we picked Ehlers and Nylander over virtanen
6 Canucks prospects are rookies this season in the AHL. 7 if Gaudette goes down. That should be very telling.This ^^. I think many people have unrealistic expectations on where this team should be. Many of these same people grossly over value draft picks outside the first round and get ridiculously bent out of shape over trading a 4th round pick. It's funny looking back at some posts raving about Toronto being the ideal rebuild example by getting all these picks and the only draft picks mainly contributing to their new found success are all first rounders.
Are you on crack? The Canucks have one of the top prospect pools in the NHL.