Johnny Canucker
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Prospect Info: Michael DiPietro
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Old enough to remember fondly the Canucks run to the Finals in 1982. Still can't forgive Snepsts for his Game 1 giveaway. Mike Bossy?! WTF was he thinking???
I do. But you can still go by Johnny when your real name is John. Just saying...
Johnny Canucker
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I do. But you can still go by Johnny when your real name is John. Just saying...
Lol. I would like this if i was allowed.
WOW. Jim Benning ladies and gentleman.
How the hell did they not claim ANY warm body goalie for their taxi squad.
What an absolute waste of a development year.
What an absolute waste of a development year.
Bubbles
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If he's a puppet GM, he shouldn't be blamed for the signings should he? Esche did mention Johnson and Gear as the two guys he loved working with so I assume Johnson actually did do some work since according to BG Johnson wasn't even around.
Regardless, the whole situation of Dipietro not getting his 8 games is ridiculous absent some sort of pre-existing agreement.
TraderJim
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Don't forget that he was also thrown to the wolves in his first ever NHL game because we didn't have a goalie to fill in. He had to play all 60 minutes and finished with a .708 save percentage that game. Having to play an 18 year old goalie without any backup. Pathetic.
Bubbles
Die Hard for Bedard 2023
He's a puppet GM in terms of Canuck matters. As for free agent signings to boost Utica, he was crap. Pretty sure Benning is not involved in signing some AHL pro.
Benning's too busy making up fabricated stories to tell the media. Clearly the guy has no verbal skills so it must take him months to just come up and practice what he's going to say for 1 30 min interview. That and dying his hair from all the stress he's taken on from the shit job he's done here and having to do 1 interview every 3 months.
Hoglander
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Because Benning is a spineless coward, that's how. St. Louis simply pushed him aside and took over Benning's farm team. Even if Dipietro was in the AHL, St. Louis wouldn't have let him play. May as well let him practice with NHLers, if Benning is going to be bullied like the sissy he is.
PuckMunchkin
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PuckMunchkin
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Insane.
But ey... Cap space doesn't matter, I guess prospects don't matter either anymore. No asset matters.
Go nucks go!
Johnny Canucker
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When the f*** Will I get my likes back? They took them away from me like a year ago.
PuckMunchkin
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Mr. Canucklehead
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One of the unlikeliest Canadian golds ever - and DiPietro gets to share in it.
Cosmic justice after he was Canada’s MVP at the WJC in Vancouver and they didn’t even medal.
Pip
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It’s still unreal the team wasted a year for DiPietro during such a key development age.
it says something about DiPietro, that Hockey Canada thought enough of him to include him as the third goalie for this year's World Hockey Championships, even though he's only played a handful of games this season.
The best thing to happen to the Canucks goaltending next season, would be for Holtby to get traded or scooped up in the expansion draft, forcing the Canucks to use DiPietro has their NHL backup. Because being 'forced into it's the only way it'll ever happen.
I mean I can't believe that DiPietro could have been much worse than Holtby in a backup role. You don't have to pay $5m a season for an .877 save percentage and a GAA well into the three's.
The best thing to happen to the Canucks goaltending next season, would be for Holtby to get traded or scooped up in the expansion draft, forcing the Canucks to use DiPietro has their NHL backup. Because being 'forced into it's the only way it'll ever happen.
I mean I can't believe that DiPietro could have been much worse than Holtby in a backup role. You don't have to pay $5m a season for an .877 save percentage and a GAA well into the three's.
Hoglander
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Pro-Benning, huh? He can do no wrong. It's totally fine that he can't even find icetime for one of his top prospects ---> on his own farm team... because some other team says so. You're ok with that?
Just A Bit Outside
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When the Canucks win the Cup and Jimbo wins Executive of the Year.
Well he did move his farm team to his own backyard as a solution the very next season. Not saying I'm a Benning fan, but that cannot be overlooked.
Mr. Canucklehead
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Well - Utica was our farm team, too. We allowed St. Louis to share the group and play their prospects there.
But to see that the Blues were somehow able to impose their will with the Canucks’ proprietary farm team is just shocking, and a really stupid look for our organization. Wherever you want to say the buck stops, whether it was with Esche, Johnson, Benning, or Aquilini himself - that made our organization look really pathetic. IMO.
Also, the decision to move the farm team was Aquilini’s as well. He may have gotten input from Benning (and the others), but that’s not the type of thing a GM typically has the final say on, to my knowledge.
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