The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#8)

[Mr. Canucklehead]

The Rankings so far:

#1 - Mike Gillis - 45.5% of Vote
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The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#1)

#2 - Pat Quinn - 73.8% of Vote
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The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#2)

#3 - Brian Burke - 89.0% of Vote
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The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#3)

#4 - Jake Milford - 45.1% of Vote
Link to Thread: The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#4)

#5 - Dave Nonis - 59.5% of Vote
Link to Thread: The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#5)

#6 - Phil Maloney - 70% of Vote
Link to Thread: The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#6)

#7 - Mike Keenan - 35.6% of Vote
Link to Thread: The Greatest General Managers in Canucks History (#7)


We've had lots of polls with respect to the best players in Canucks' history, so I thought it would be a fun exercise (famous last words) to see who HF Van thinks the best off-ice Canucks' Masterminds in history are - I figure we can run through this with GMs, and then do one for Coaches as well.

The list of Canucks' general managers that we've had is below, clipped from Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, I'm including Mike Keenan as an option as he was the de facto/acting GM for an extended period of time.

Disagreement and debate are healthy and encouraged. Just keep it clean, civil and respectful.

The List:

1	Bud Poile	February 25, 1970 – April 1973	No playoff appearances	[3][4][5]
2	Hal Laycoe	April 1973 – January 31, 1974		[5][6]
3	Phil Maloney	January 31, 1974 – May 31, 1977	1 division title and 2 playoff appearances	[6][7]
4	Jake Milford	May 31, 1977 – June 1982	1 Stanley Cup Finals appearance (1982) 1 conference title and 4 playoff appearances	[7][8]
5	Harry Neale	June 1982 – May 23, 1985	2 playoff appearances	[8]
6	Jack Gordon	June 4, 1985 – June 1, 1987	1 playoff appearance	[9][10]
7	Pat Quinn	June 1, 1987 – November 4, 1997	1 Stanley Cup Finals appearance (1994) 1 conference title, 2 division titles, and 7 playoff appearances	[10][11]
–	Mike Keenan (acting)	November 14, 1997 – April 19, 1998		[citation needed]
8	Brian Burke	June 22, 1998 – May 3, 2004	1 division title and 4 playoff appearances	[12][13]
9	Dave Nonis	May 6, 2004 – April 14, 2008	1 division title and 1 playoff appearance	[14][15]
10	Mike Gillis	April 23, 2008 – April 8, 2014	1 Stanley Cup Finals appearance (2011) Won Presidents' Trophy 2 times (2010–11, 2011–12) Won General Manager of the Year Award (2010–11) 1 conference title, 5 division titles, and 5 playoff appearances	[16][17]
11	Jim Benning	May 21, 2014 – present	2 playoff appearances	[2]

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[Dab]

Benning territory

 

[Didalee Hed]

My man bud got this

siddown dimbo

 

[Jyrki21]

Poile, because there's no way Keenan should have been the last one anyway.

 

[archangel2]

will never understand the love in some have for Gillis. Nonis and Burke left him with a solid base and lots of cap room

 

[Vector]

will never understand the love in some have for Gillis. Nonis and Burke left him with a solid base and lots of cap room

Then you’re willfully ignorant. 1000s of posts, entire recent threads, all dedicated to explaining why people consider him the best Canucks GM.

 

[Jyrki21]

Then you’re willfully ignorant. 1000s of posts, entire recent threads, all dedicated to explaining why people consider him the best Canucks GM.

If anything, this constant refrain should be admonition to the team for having fired Nonis or not renewed Burke in the first place. And yet, it never is...

 

[y2kcanucks]

Bud Poile

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

poile

 

[iceburg]

Could never support Keenan. Tyranny only works as long as the masses can't access power.

Poile it is.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Can I just vote for Gilman?

I just voted for Poile. Meh. Didn't do anything awful.

 

[MS]

Poile is the last person on the list who could be argued to have done a positive job.

Of the 4 remaining names after that, you have one (Laycoe) who was barely here and did nothing so has no real impact positive or negative, and three who were unequivocally negative GMs.

Laycoe will get my next vote and then we can sort out the donkeys.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Laycoe will get my next vote and then we can sort out the donkeys.

This is when we start the "The Worst General Managers in Canucks History " thread.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

This is when we start the "The Worst General Managers in Canucks History " thread.

Once we got past the top 5/6, I think that’s what this ultimately became.

 

[Hit the post]

Once we got past the top 5/6, I think that’s what this ultimately became.

Only old pro wrestling fans would get this:

Ole Anderson describing Jim Cornette: I used to think you were the biggest dumb **** in the business but so many dumb ****'s have come & gone, you've moved up my rankings without doing a damn thing.

 

[theguardianII]

I am sure many poster here got the gist behind Mr. Aquilini's tweet.
He could not single out Green and Burke had mentioned before that Green would do good in Pittsburgh, that was before he got the job, Burke really liked him.
No doubt and astute agent would ask for permission to talk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<-<-<-
Which would result in a generic message