Maybe he didn't want to start a Canucks media circus over a 4th rounder from 2010?
This isn't anything that's going to pick up much steam in the media or with the general fanbase, but for a more detailed insight it paints a poor pictureof his method & execution.
Claims there is an 'age gap' of 21-23 year old players. Pays a 2nd rounder for Linden Vey, but doesn't qualify Jordan Schroeder. Gives up a 3rd rounder for Andrey Pedan and promising Gustav Forsling for Adam Clendening, but chooses not to sign Patrick McNally and instead trades him to San Jose for a 7th.
These moves work if Benning is able to find gold with them, and we've been sold on him being a master talent evaluator. But for all intents and purposes, Schroeder is filling in the same job in Minnesota that Vey does here, we've already given up on Clendening, and McNally is farther up San Jose's depth chart than Pedan is ours. With one hand he's trying to fix a perceived problem but with the other he's contributing to the very same problem. And tossing out 2nd and 3rd rounders to fix it, a lack of which has always been a big factor in our poor drafting over the years.
These types of things can always change but right now Vey, Pedan, and Clendening aren't an equal trade off for Schroeder, Forsling, McNally, a 2nd, a 3rd, and a throwaway Mallet. Like pretty much all his other moves it's extremely poor value in fact.
