Post-Game Talk: Tank thread: All over

[vanuck]

Said this a million times, will say a million more if that's what it takes to drill through someone's skull:

Lack of draft picks can be compensated by savvy GM; Ten years worth of top picks can't help a manager who makes Chief Wiggum looks like a ****ing Nobel-winning genius.

EXACTLY this. Thank you.

 

[clunk]

I am not a Benning supporter and have zero problem with criticizing management. Do it in a way that's consistent and makes sense and you'll never hear from me.

It makes perfect sense. I would have been fine with winning the lottery if Jim Benning made rebuilding moves to finish in a bottom 5 position. Instead, he signed vets to long term deals, didn't manage to trade more for picks throughout the season, etc. I don't want Benning to be rewarded for not rebuilding, nor do I want fans that defend management constantly to be rewarded for doing it the wrong way .

 

[bossram]

Canucks final standing over the last 4 years:

2016 = 28th
2017 = 29th
2018 = 28th
2019 = 23rd
2020 = ?

Without Petey and God-mode Markstrom, this would have been another pathetic 28th/29th overall season.

They were still nearly as bad last year. A bunch of teams in the West just happened to take a dump at the same time.

We only have more ROW than the Ottawa Senators. That's the real indication of how good the team actually is.

 

[Fatass]

They were still nearly as bad last year. A bunch of teams in the West just happened to take a dump at the same time.

We only have more ROW than the Ottawa Senators. That's the real indication of how good the team actually is.

We kind of really stink right now, agreed?
I just wish we could have finished with a guaranteed top five pick. Picking the middle of the first round is a recipe for mediocrity.

 

[bossram]

We kind of really stink right now, agreed?
I just wish we could have finished with a guaranteed top five pick. Picking the middle of the first round is a recipe for mediocrity.

Adding an elite prospect probably acts as a one-year life jacket to Benning and company. Maybe picking at around #10 is the best thing long-term.

 

[Freakshow]

I've almost washed my hands of this team until they get rid of the cancer that is Jim Benning.

 

[Cupless44]

For all the fans that were anti tank, and loved the little moral victory victories at the end of the year...days like today and at the draft in Vancouver are the days when you cant even remember those useless wins and they are far more meaningless than they were at the time when the playoff push was already over.

 

[timw33]

For all the fans that were anti tank, and loved the little moral victory victories at the end of the year...days like today and at the draft in Vancouver are the days when you cant even remember those useless wins and they are far more meaningless than they were at the time when the playoff push was already over.

I remember the useless wins in California on the back of Dan Hamhuis that lost us Auston Matthews.

 

[Cupless44]

I remember the useless wins in California on the back of Dan Hamhuis that lost us Auston Matthews.

Unforgettably Canuck

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Welp, draft lotto over. Canucks move down. Because of course they do. May as well lock this puppy up for another year.

 

[LaVar]

at least there won't be a prospect added to our roster next year that'll have casuals continuing to nuthug jimbo

 

[MS]

I am not a Benning supporter and have zero problem with criticizing management. Do it in a way that's consistent and makes sense and you'll never hear from me.

‘Not a Benning supporter’

... of last 200 posts literally all of them are defending management, defending management acquisitions, or quibbling with criticisms of management.

Sure thing. No agenda here.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

For all the fans that were anti tank, and loved the little moral victory victories at the end of the year...days like today and at the draft in Vancouver are the days when you cant even remember those useless wins and they are far more meaningless than they were at the time when the playoff push was already over.

Yea but winning those games help develop a winning culture, look at all the winning we did this year! Who need Austin Matthews when we can have winning culture!?

 

[wreckless]

lol. late winning streak = canucks draft 10th, Benning job saved.

the casuals deserve this for their treachery outwards Mike Gillis.

YOU DESERVE THIS!

and of course, a team like chicago moves way up.

 

[VIPettersson]

Omg the reverse chicago tank won

 

[Phenomenon13]

The tank has fallen apart this year. We are guaranteed for mediocrity if we keep this up. This was actually a really bad result. We need to bottom out for 2 more years and pick up some big pieces. The tank needs to double it's efforts.

 

[y2kcanucks]

Well all those meaningless victories really cost the Canucks. 10th overall pick

If 2 of our wins were losses instead we'd have had NYR's lottery numbers and would have jumped to 2nd. But hey, we got those extra wins, woohoo. Hell, that OTL bumped the team from 9th to 10th. Yay?

Part of me is happy we didn't move up though. I'm glad we won't be getting a player who will come in and save Benning's job. One more year of dealing with dumb and dumber in the front office before they'll be punted to the moon.

The Tank for Lafreniere campaign starts now!

 

[valkynax]

Well all those meaningless victories really cost the Canucks. 10th overall pick

If 2 of our wins were losses instead we'd have had NYR's lottery numbers and would have jumped to 2nd. But hey, we got those extra wins, woohoo. Hell, that OTL bumped the team from 9th to 10th. Yay?

Part of me is happy we didn't move up though. I'm glad we won't be getting a player who will come in and save Benning's job. One more year of dealing with dumb and dumber in the front office before they'll be punted to the moon.

The Tank for Lafreniere campaign starts now!

This team literally cannot do anything right.

They can't win, they can't lose, they are forever submerged in their own quagmire of mediocrity.

 

[The Drop]

I’m loving the “see tanking doesn’t work” posts on here and twitter.

Ppl have no idea what tanking is

 

[Fire Benning]

Never forget that shootout winner from Granlund, lol.

 

[me2]

I’m loving the “see tanking doesn’t work” posts on here and twitter.

Ppl have no idea what tanking is

Just say Pettersson and they usually shut up. Throw in Tkachuk to rub it in.

 

[brokenhole]

I hope Aquaman is seething so bad watching Jersy and the Hated Hawks strolling up to the podium in his own barn picking at the top the draft that he fires Benning right there on the draft floor.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

I hope Aquaman is seething so bad watching Jersy and the Hated Hawks strolling up to the podium in his own barn picking at the top the draft that he fires Benning right there on the draft floor.

Or he could start lobbying behind the scenes to get rid of the f***ing idiot lottery that a) only ever f***s us over, and b) was only ever a solution in search of a problem to begin with.

 

[Grub]

Never forget that shootout winner from Granlund, lol.

Never forget.

 

[Grub]

Well all those meaningless victories really cost the Canucks. 10th overall pick

If 2 of our wins were losses instead we'd have had NYR's lottery numbers and would have jumped to 2nd. But hey, we got those extra wins, woohoo. Hell, that OTL bumped the team from 9th to 10th. Yay?

Part of me is happy we didn't move up though. I'm glad we won't be getting a player who will come in and save Benning's job. One more year of dealing with dumb and dumber in the front office before they'll be punted to the moon.

The Tank for Lafreniere campaign starts now!

Amin. Nothing will ever be fixed here until Jim Benning gets fired. If it takes another year of tanking, then I'm all aboard.