you're deflecting from your own shortcomings?
- NuckUp

Hey no need to project on me too, we're all just glad y0u g0t a new keyb0ard

Sorry, I’m too stupid to understand your typing word making. I humbly bow to your superior intellect, you are so smart.

In the immortal words of Mel Blanc

What a maroon.
- 1970vintage

Macaroons are great you should try one. it may sweeten up your sour bashing Canuck disposition. Though straightening out the logic twist and failure to recognize development issues may require a Mel Brooks History of the World crash course.

Remember when Benning said we could be competitive with a quick retool ? That was a lie.

Remember when Benning said we could be competitive with a quick retool ? That was a lie.
- golfingsince

They made the playoffs the next year so it wasn’t a lie

Remember when Benning said we could be competitive with a quick retool ? That was a lie.
- golfingsince

I disagree, I think he truly believed it. This makes him a terrible judge of talent, not a liar.

Remember when Benning said we could be competitive with a quick retool ? That was a lie.
- golfingsince

That was just an unreliable communication method. Maybe you just failed to receive Jim's attempted communication?

Macaroons are great you should try one. it may sweeten up your sour bashing Canuck disposition. Though straightening out the logic twist and failure to recognize development issues may require a Mel Brooks History of the World crash course.
- NuckUp

I recognize development issues fine. The organization let public pressure (show us the new kids) dictate their decisions. Those two guys absolutely should have gone back to junior, as should whoever they select this year.

Some interesting draft picks

https://www.lines.com/nhl...layer/roman-schmidt-36411

https://www.lines.com/nhl.../player/colton-dach-36442

https://www.lines.com/nhl...yer/samuel-helenius-36423 ( 6'6 C and father was an enforcer)

https://www.lines.com/nhl...ayer/logan-mailloux-36434 (Fatty)

https://www.lines.com/nhl...er/evgeni-kashnikov-37785 (Russian)

https://www.lines.com/nhl.../player/marc-lajoie-36436 ( later rounds)

- Nucker101

JB didn't earn that, the players on the ice did and Jim just rode their coattails.
But this trophy was earned by the person who received it:

Maybe Benning did?

“We’re going to get something worked out there,” Benning said confidently on Donnie & Dhali. “He is an important guy in our group and, like I’ve said before, he’s good at what he does. We’ll get that figured out.”
- VanHockeyGuy

He'll run out of time.

Honestly he is quite good in EN situations, helps close out wins, plus Green trusts him in those 1 goal close out situations
- Nucker101

why are you so confrontational? people can have different opinions without you talking down to people.
- Codes1087

Don't blame him, you guys keep talking to him and fall into his trap. Last time we just all ignored him and he went away.

- VanHockeyGuy

Benning is to the Canucks as what Jar Jar Binks is to Star Wars: a bumbling idiot who sometimes gets things right (usually out of clumsiness and stupidity) and is more so a character that you'd rather not hear talk.
- NewYorkNuck

Which is weird because isn't Jar Jar actually THE dark lord of the Sith controlling EVERYTHING like Benning lol

How do you know he is?

Most media who deal with him face to face say that Jim's a good hockey man and a good person
- Nucker101

More like an excellent Hockey Man.

They made the playoffs the next year so it wasn’t a lie
- Nucker101

- A_SteamingLombardi

- A_SteamingLombardi

I didn’t say he was a good player lol

I didn’t say he was a good player lol
- Nucker101

I didn’t say he was a good player lol
- Nucker101

He actually was a good player, but I believe you said he “knows what it takes to win on and off the ice”, which would infer that he was a winner as a player and as a manager.

JB didn't earn that, the players on the ice did and Jim just rode their coattails.
But this trophy was earned by the person who received it:


- bloatedmosquito

Gillis merely rode the coattails of the previous GMs who built an amazing core.

Gillis merely rode the coattails of the previous GMs who built an amazing core.
- Retinalz

That's pretty lame. He brought in two of our top 4D, our 3rd and 4th line C's, a top 6 wing among other things.

I agree rushing Jake into the NHL was his problem . It had nothing to do with booze ,drugs , over eating , chasing women and lack of exercise.

- VANTEL

Kind of looks like him….

Sorry, I’m too stupid to understand your typing word making. I humbly bow to your superior intellect, you are so smart.

In the immortal words of Mel Blanc

What a maroon.
- 1970vintage

Which is weird because isn't Jar Jar actually THE dark lord of the Sith controlling EVERYTHING like Benning lol
- LordHumungous

He could have been, but he wasn't. They changed the character/arc so that he stayed the bumbling idiot and was relegated to the background... just like Benning will be