Ben Hutton will be playing top 4 minutes for the Oilers at some point in this season
He made a lot of poor moves from 2014-2016, he's made a lot of great ones ever since.Now just imagine how Benning might have been able to leverage 24 million of dead/replacement cap to eat some bad contracts this year. Or acquire good players.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that along with Schmidt, Canucks could have acquired Hall and D. Toews while keeping Toffoli. And still eaten a bad one year contract for a kings ransom on top of it.
So you tell me, who's being uncharitable now?
Hughes was a good if obvious pick. Credit to Detroit as well for taking Zadina. I addressed the Schmidt acquisition - which I am happy with - but it's telling that Vegas only got a 3rd round pick. D are always in demand, 6 million d-men in an off season with extremely minimal available cap are not. There was very little interest in acquiring his cap hit for any sort of asset.
He made a lot of poor moves from 2014-2016, he's made a lot of great ones ever since.
Your wet dreams notwithstanding, you don't get to just add every good acquisition that any team this off season has made (Hall, Toews, etc) to the Canucks and hold your alternate reality against Benning. It's disingenuous.
Some of his deals were terrible at the time (Del Zotto, Gagner, giving Beagle 4 years, etc), while some seemed like decent bets that just didn't work out (Eriksson, Roussel, arguably Gudbranson) but they weren't good moves.
Subsequently, he has us set up with a young core of 5-6 players that are the envy of at least 25 other teams.
And saying Hughes was completely obvious is unfair too. He was the player that I was hoping for, but the rhetoric at the time was that he was lumped in with Bouchard, Dobson, and Boqvist. Further, your discrediting of Detroit for taking Zadina implies that you weren't following the draft. He was expected to go 3rd, nobody was giving them shit for that pick. Montreal for Kotkaniemi and Arizona for Hayton were godsends for us.
He made a lot of poor moves from 2014-2016, he's made a lot of great ones ever since.
Your wet dreams notwithstanding, you don't get to just add every good acquisition that any team this off season has made (Hall, Toews, etc) to the Canucks and hold your alternate reality against Benning. It's disingenuous.
Some of his deals were terrible at the time (Del Zotto, Gagner, giving Beagle 4 years, etc), while some seemed like decent bets that just didn't work out (Eriksson, Roussel, arguably Gudbranson) but they weren't good moves.
Subsequently, he has us set up with a young core of 5-6 players that are the envy of at least 25 other teams.
And saying Hughes was completely obvious is unfair too. He was the player that I was hoping for, but the rhetoric at the time was that he was lumped in with Bouchard, Dobson, and Boqvist. Further, you're* discrediting of Detroit for taking Zadina implies that you weren't following the draft. He was expected to go 3rd, nobody was giving them shit for that pick. Montreal for Kotkaniemi and Arizona for Hayton were godsends for us.
Two way puck mover than is decent in both ends of the ice. A little inconsistent defensively, and gets beat wide a lot when defending the rush.What is the scouting report on him? He seems to put up decent numbers for the minutes that he gets.
He'd definitely be playing above William Lagesson.
When Bear and Jones got promoted.. Lagesson began to shine on the top-pair on the Condors. I think he's ready for bottom-pairing D minutes. I don't see where Hutton/Hamonic fit unless we think Larsson will get injured again and/or we need 8 D and/or Bear will holdout.