Confirmed with Link: Trevor Linden steps down

[Josepho]

if we get a new president i highly doubt benning lasts long.

 

[Addison Rae]

linden is a joke, but benning now has more responsibilities which is bad news.

 

[CalderSchmalder]

paging y2k

 

[Wo Yorfat]

lmao i ran around my house celebrating for nothing

No sir. This is still great news. That spineless arrogant bag of garbage is gone. The fact that JB is still here doesn't stop that from being a good thing. I've never seen a human who's competence and confidence were so unbelievably untied to one another.

 

[ATypicalCanadian]

I'm going to be very cautious about this until we see who replaces Linden as President, but hopefully all the heat is on Benning. When we do get a new President of Hockey Ops he's going to be swift and kick out Benning plus Weisbrod and guys like Delorme.

Giving Benning full and direct access to ownership scares me though

 

[Fire Benning]

Linden was probably the biggest blemish in this organization, but giving Benning full power is pretty scary, silver lining might be that if a new president comes in, good chance Benning isn't around for very long.

 

[D0ctorCool]

Great news! There is one less scapegoat in the organization.

 

[drax0s]

Woooow. Did not expect something like this until at least mid season, and I expected Benning to be the one getting heat. Benning's done this season. There's no way he can fend off Aquilini's inquiries into why the team will be out of a playoff position by Christmas.

Very weird timing though. He either has something going on family-wise or the shit-storm after our FA signings really got to him.

 

[Hammer79]

So does that mean that Linden wasn't pulling in the same direction as ownership and the GM?

 

[JumpierPegasus]

Okay good to hear from Aqua that we might be getting a new president. They better not put Benning in charge, but instead a guy who will push Benning a little bit instead of being blindly a fan of his like Linden was

Cautiously optimistic

 

[drax0s]

Linden was probably the biggest blemish in this organization, but giving Benning full power is pretty scary, silver lining might be that if a new president comes in, good chance Benning isn't around for very long.

I can almost guarantee that Benning will not have carte blanche to do whatever he wants. Everything will have to be run by Aquilini.

 

[canuckslover10]

Does this mean i have to cancel my club 16 membership

 

[Fire Benning]

lol

 

[krutovsdonut]

boom

 

[ATypicalCanadian]

I would post the full Aquilini rant, but 3 media pieces max per post will take up 4 posts so here's the link to his feed for anyone interested:

Francesco Aquilini (@fr_aquilini) | Twitter

 

[Ace of Hades]

The silver lining in Benning being promoted is that the heat and pressure will be on him now.

The time is ticking for him.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Gillis.

 

[TruGr1t]

As soon as anyone remotely competent gets in the door they'll wipe out Benning and Weisbrod.

Unfortunately, Aquilini is the real problem and seems to be ghost managing the team himself.

It won't take much for ownership to change their time without Linden smoothing things over though.

 

[geebaan]

boom

yea, something definitely happened behind the scenes. Retiring for no apparent reason, in the middle of July? Right after saying all these things about the future? Something happened.

 

[DS7]

 

[BassMason]

smart move

/thread

 

[Tryforthekingdom]

Interesting in the statement that Benning will "continue that momentum in the months ahead" (emphasis mine). An optimistic reading of that would be that Benning has a very short leash now but who knows. I also wonder about the rumour that Benning only got an extension after Linden threatened to quit.

 

[Huggy43]

Excited because I've waited for the day but nervous because it's Francesco & his hiring abilities...

 

[vancityluongo]

f*** ya!!!!!!

 

[polarbearcub]

This is the most curious part. Was linden not towing the line?