krutovsdonut
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- Sep 25, 2016
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Rather than learning the lesson by upper management the impression I get is that we have some more competent people having their voice heard in the room. When Benning first took over he quuckly turfed the prior regimes top guys, and it seemed like him, Linden, Wiesbrod, and Desjardins were primarily running the show. Now things have settled and we have guys like Brackett and Green in more prominant roles.
when stewart was drafted in june 2014, benning had been onboard a month and had made no changes to the existing scouting group. moving from boston with no personal background in scouting the whl, it's a fairly safe bet the gm didn't personally scout a 7th rounder out of prince albert which had missed the playoffs. the head of amateur scouting and the guy specializing in the whl was ron delorme. presumably he would have been advising on virtanen and stewart.
when stewart was signed in may 2015, weisbrod was not hired yet. the person who negotiated minor league contracts was gilman in consultation with lorne henning who ran the minor league development teams. erik crawford was the head of player development. delorme still ran amateur scouting and still specialized in the whl. i suppose it is possible benning over rode all of them over an echl signing.
3 of those 4 were fired 2 months later and bracket was promoted over delorme and weisbrod was hired.
but let's not let every single fact get in the way of a good benning/wesibrod bash.