Would u accept...


Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
- Nighthawk

Lockwood has a rep for blowing guys up. Gadjovich is just big. Either way we have loads of wingers coming on the next few years.

Did anyone hear anymore on what’s up with JB issues being at home?

Does anyone care or are the knives out? How green is that grass?

Did anyone hear anymore on what’s up with JB issues being at home?

Does anyone care or are the knives out? How green is that grass?
- Nuck4U

It might be a polite way of Canucks keeping him away from the team. Usually the media would give more details if someone is ailing

No but I'd like to see this...


Gadjovich Gaudette Lind
- LeftCoaster

Nice looking line is that for Comets 2018 or Canucks 2019? Note you can clarify within or overlap of season.

It might be a polite way of Canucks keeping him away from the team. Usually the media would give more details if someone is ailing
- VANTEL

The timing does raise more questions.

You don't know if someone can definitively do a better job, that's impossible to tell. What you can do is say I "think" this person would perform better than Benning has. It's purely subjective.

Dean Lombardi has a better track record than Benning but he was fired because he signed some just God awful contracts that really hurt Los Angeles. At the end of the day he won two Cups as a GM there though.

I'm not personally suggesting Lombardi, I'm saying MAYBE ownership likes his body of work as he's an experienced GM and the architect of their two Cups. He was handed Kopitar and Quick though.
- LeftCoaster

Handed players? That should get Bowman & Rutherford fired soon. Neither of those 2 ever built anything. I hear you on subjective but it rarely applies to sports. If hockey was subjective GM’s would be fired much more often if result based. Coaches are sacrificed far too often over the ineptitude of a GM.

I’d say maybe 10 GM’s don’t deserve jobs before JB is cut loose. To fire a GM on a guess another can do a significantly better job is asking for constant upheaval like the Oil have faced. Not condusive for getting better having instability at the drop of a hat.

US Today's mid season ranking for Canucks:
- WhiteLie

Is that from Nuck4U's diary?
I'm surprised by the C- , expected a B.

Still no GM suggested who can do better?

When the likes of PC Dorion MB Treliving Wilson to name only a few have jobs idk what JB has to do. All of them have achieved nothing or simply abject failures far worse than JB.
- Nighthawk

I’m not going to say they are better but both Ken Holland and Lou Lamarallo (spelling) are in the same boat as JB. I would say they both have decent track records as GM’s.

The timing does raise more questions.
- Nuck4U

Yup . Until further details people will speculate.

I’m not going to say they are better but both Ken Holland and Lou Lamarallo (spelling) are in the same boat as JB. I would say they both have decent track records as GM’s.
- Kaynine

If its track records gimme Sam Pollock.
What has Holland done lately?
Same for LL other than win Matthews?
Nothing worthy of much credit for me.

Do they know what a Tankist is?
- VANTEL

I thought it was draftist and tanker? Is it drafter and tankist now?

I thought it was draftist and tanker? Is it drafter and tankist now?
- neem55

A loser with nowhere but up to go?

I thought it was draftist and tanker? Is it drafter and tankist now?
- neem55

We wont know until JB is resigned or replaced.

If its track records gimme Sam Pollock.
What has Holland done lately?
Same for LL other than win Matthews?
- Nighthawk

Pollock might be a little tuff cause I heard he’s a little under the weather.

Up until last yr, Holland made the playoffs 25 yrs in a row and won multiple cups.
LL help rebuild the Leafs and has a history of winning cups.

Like I said, not necessarily better then JB but are established winners.

I thought it was draftist and tanker? Is it drafter and tankist now?
- neem55

They are the same . Ask Lefty he will explain.

If its track records gimme Sam Pollock.
What has Holland done lately?
Same for LL other than win Matthews?
Nothing worthy of much credit for me.
- Nighthawk

Only 5 other GM's have won the cup since Holland's last; and 8 since Lou's last. Not to mention their involvement in their respective Olympic programs

Neither are really candidates, nor do I want either, but on a very short list of accomplished candidates, they are at least on it and more recently than 75% of the General Managers in the league; nothing to scoff at

Only 5 other GM's have won the cup since Holland's last; and 8 since Lou's last. Not to mention their involvement in their respective Olympic programs

Neither are really candidates, nor do I want either, but on a very short list of accomplished candidates, they are at least on it and more recently than 75% of the General Managers in the league; nothing to scoff at
- WhiteLie

Both of their contracts are up at the end of yr like JB’s. Not a far fetch from them being available.

I thought it was draftist and tanker? Is it drafter and tankist now?
- neem55

Lol it never gets old. No labels let’s simplify.

Can you believe in accumulating picks, and building through the draft, without designing and executing a plan for team losses?

Comets release defenseman Cliff Watson . Probably nothing but could be making room for a trade prospect.

Lol it never gets old. No labels let’s simplify.

Can you believe in accumulating picks, and building through the draft, without designing and executing a plan for team losses?
- Nuck4U

Sounds like a fans idea of progress.
Tankers take note lol

Lol it never gets old. No labels let’s simplify.

Can you believe in accumulating picks, and building through the draft, without designing and executing a plan for team losses?
- Nuck4U

Of course, but to think teams don't take a step back by design is both naive and incorrect. Management teams lose by design all the time.

Lol it never gets old. No labels let’s simplify.

Can you believe in accumulating picks, and building through the draft, without designing and executing a plan for team losses?
- Nuck4U

Depends, can you accumulate more picks without harming your team now or in the future?

Of course, but to think teams don't take a step back by design is both naive and incorrect. Management teams lose by design all the time.
- LeftCoaster

I prefer acquiring picks without hurting the team

Depends, can you accumulate more picks without harming your team now or in the future?
- WhiteLie

Benning's done it. Burrows sucked and he traded him for Dahlen. Bieksa sucked and he traded him for a 2nd. Lack is not even a NHL goalie and JB got a pick for him. Hansen is a healthy scratch now and JB got a highly skilled boom or bust prospect for him.

The timing does raise more questions.
- Nuck4U

Show some respect. My thoughts and prayers are with JB and I hope he's back soon.