Management Thread | Inconceivable Edition

[Peen]

Absolutely. There are about 25 dmen that could instantly improve this team that will be exposed in the expansion draft. That number will rise as some UFAs get extended throughout the season. This D can get retooled in a hurry ... *if* the right people are in charge.

Exactly why I HATE this idea of waiting til the end of the season to fire a GM.

Gives him time to make a move to save his job rather than improve for future seasons.

We need someone in here who is actively looking forward to this. I don’t think Benning is the type of guy to be able to call a GM and convince them they have a bigger problem than they do and ultimately convince them to make a deal that benefits us.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Exactly why I HATE this idea of waiting til the end of the season to fire a GM.

Gives him time to make a move to save his job rather than improve for future seasons.

We need someone in here who is actively looking forward to this. I don’t think Benning is the type of guy to be able to call a GM and convince them they have a bigger problem than they do and ultimately convince them to make a deal that benefits us.

Agreed. A succesful turnaround for this team includes accumulating picks at the trade deadline for veterans. Not exactly Jimbo's strength.

 

[vanuck]

One of the canucks biggest avenues or opportunities towards improvement is their keeper slots.

They basically only have six skaters who you would lose sleep over not protecting.

I don’t think teams want to give seattle this boatload of good stuff after seeing what happened with VGK. Dumping an exposable contract to a team plus a minor future for a usable player that you want to keep can be a good avenue for us. We could add like 3-4 players via trade this way.

Someone could probably think of specific examples. Idk.

On top of that, you could theoretically get some pretty decent futures from other teams just for agreeing to protect players they want to keep and trading them back afterwards even if they're not necessarily a fit on the Canucks. There might be a lot of cap gymnastics involved given our situation but it'd be worth it.

Either way, weaponizing our protected slots would already be too big brain for this current management group. It's a nice thought, though...

 

[Fatass]

Agreed. A succesful turnaround for this team includes accumulating picks at the trade deadline for veterans. Not exactly Jimbo's strength.

For a GM who says he loves the draft, and that is his bread and butter, he sure does seem to trade away a lot of picks.

 

[Hansen]

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

For a GM who says he loves the draft, and that is his bread and butter, he sure does seem to trade away a lot of picks.

Exactly. Tampa Bay, a team that has been trying to win cups has 54 picks since Benning was hired. Canucks had 48 in that time. Tampa Bay had 14 picks in the first 2 rounds, compared to 12 for us (and one of them was given to us for Torts). Benning has not aquire a pick in the first 2 rounds and used it since the Kesler trade and picking McCann.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Heh, was this the Gillis thing? Reading that was like porn, LOL.

 

[4Twenty]

Benning’s was probably that photo of him in the pale yellow t-shirt raising the cup. That’s it that’s all.

 

[Peen]

What did I miss?

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

That tweet is no longer available. Can anyone summarize what it was about?

 

[CherryToke]

Benning could build a good defence if he uses the George Costanza system of doing the opposite of what his brain tells him

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

That tweet is no longer available. Can anyone summarize what it was about?

It looks like Mike Gillis is going to interview for the job in Pittsburgh. It was a manifesto about his managerial philosophy. Included his model org chart and an introspective section about what went wrong in Vancouver. Very well put together.

 

[Peen]

That tweet is no longer available. Can anyone summarize what it was about?

I’ve done some digging on twitter

Gillis applied for the pens job and his son accidentally posted the pdf of it.

It’s deleted from docs now.

I didn’t see it first hand.

 

[Peen]

It looks like Mike Gillis is going to interview for the job in Pittsburgh. It was a manifesto about his managerial philosophy. Included his model org chart and an introspective section about what went wrong in Vancouver. Very well put together.

Wtf you read it?

What did he say went wrong

 

[4Twenty]

That tweet is no longer available. Can anyone summarize what it was about?

A 27 page presentation for how Gillis would run the Penguins as President of hockey ops. Entire structure. More of a slide show than in depth but showed org charts and core values and that type of thing.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Wtf you read it?

What did he say went wrong

It was more about management style, about letting people do their jobs without interference but still being philosophically aligned, etc.

 

[thefeebster]

Nothing is ever gone forever from the internet. Find it, you sleuths. Pls and thank you.

 

[Peen]

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Wyatt Arndt is going to have snippets of it in the Armies, apparently.

 

[Peen]

Wyatt Arndt is going to have snippets of it in the Armies, apparently.

I’d bet it’s very minimal or he waits until Pittsburgh resolves that opening before anything substantial is posted by a media member.

Wouldn’t be a good look to leak a lot of it...

 

[Peen]

gonna hold off on reposting lmao

 

[Hansen]

Fascinating

 

[Hansen]

Heh, was this the Gillis thing? Reading that was like porn, LOL.

That was like my first time reading porn all over again

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Nothing is ever gone forever from the internet. Find it, you sleuths. Pls and thank you.

 

[Peen]

I don’t want to be the one who posts it here as I’m not aware if there any legal ramifications for reposting a leaked private document..

but it is all on reddit r hockey rn

alright burke did it LMAO theres so much to chew on