Svencouver
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The situation within the Canucks organization has gone from bad to f***ed.
This is quickly becoming a Sabres level catastrophe. We've gone from rumors of internal Aquillini family conflict and power plays to news of Jim Benning returning after the some of the most unsuccessful 7 years of management in professional sports history and missing the playoffs for his 5th year in charge. One has to start questioning conflicts of interest and just what is keeping Benning around, at this point. No one even knows what Weisbrod does within the organization after his history of destroying professional sports franchises nearly single-handedly. Ownership answers to no one and appears to be highly involved and invested in running the team themselves.
Aquillini, Benning, Weisbrod and co. have pushed out numerous high profile, high value assets out of the organization such as scouting head Judd Brackett, president Trevor Linden, and potentially now their famed goalie coach Ian Clarke; one of the best goalie coaches in the league, who Thatcher Demko has more or less resorted to desperately begging management to bring back -
Numerous former players, including Chris Tanev and top 10 goalscorer Tyler Toffoli, have come out and have made remarks about how they felt scorned and disrespected - and disappointed - with the Canucks management not even going so far as to even make an offer to them or contact them at all in the offseason. The level of not just incompetence, but unprofessionalism, is tearing the team apart from the inside; and now it's rumored that players want out.
It has to be argued at this point that the Canucks are in potentially a worse state than the Sabres - if not, they're right there with them. Even the Senators under Melnyk and Dorion look like they're being run like Tampa Bay in comparison. With no fans in the stands, this really hasn't gotten the media attention it should probably warrant at this stage. This could be an utter collapse of this teams core if things aren't addressed immediately - and it might already be too late.
This is quickly becoming a Sabres level catastrophe. We've gone from rumors of internal Aquillini family conflict and power plays to news of Jim Benning returning after the some of the most unsuccessful 7 years of management in professional sports history and missing the playoffs for his 5th year in charge. One has to start questioning conflicts of interest and just what is keeping Benning around, at this point. No one even knows what Weisbrod does within the organization after his history of destroying professional sports franchises nearly single-handedly. Ownership answers to no one and appears to be highly involved and invested in running the team themselves.
Aquillini, Benning, Weisbrod and co. have pushed out numerous high profile, high value assets out of the organization such as scouting head Judd Brackett, president Trevor Linden, and potentially now their famed goalie coach Ian Clarke; one of the best goalie coaches in the league, who Thatcher Demko has more or less resorted to desperately begging management to bring back -
Numerous former players, including Chris Tanev and top 10 goalscorer Tyler Toffoli, have come out and have made remarks about how they felt scorned and disrespected - and disappointed - with the Canucks management not even going so far as to even make an offer to them or contact them at all in the offseason. The level of not just incompetence, but unprofessionalism, is tearing the team apart from the inside; and now it's rumored that players want out.
It has to be argued at this point that the Canucks are in potentially a worse state than the Sabres - if not, they're right there with them. Even the Senators under Melnyk and Dorion look like they're being run like Tampa Bay in comparison. With no fans in the stands, this really hasn't gotten the media attention it should probably warrant at this stage. This could be an utter collapse of this teams core if things aren't addressed immediately - and it might already be too late.
