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Originally Posted by d_phaneuf
He shouldn't be
Hes done well drafting but on the whole hes in the bottom part of the league in the job, luckily for the team, 2 of the guys below him are in the same division, possibly 3 based on how francis has done in a week with seattle
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Not in the bottom part of the league. At the bottom of the league. As in the actual bottom.
Consider:
Even though the Canucks have made the playoffs, what, once in the last six years, Benning has traded far more picks than he has acquired. 7, I think, at last count. He has this apparent inability to conduct a trade without throwing a draft pick in.
In 2015, no second round pick. In 2016, no second round pick. In 2019, no third round pick. In 2020, no first or second round pick. In 2021, no first or third or fourth round pick. In 2022, already no second round pick. For someone who is supposed to good at drafting, he sure doesn't like to do that much of it.
He just cleared out a bunch of players on terrible contracts; contracts that he signed, but succeeded in trading them for a worse contract but pretty much every conceivable metric. The contracts he traded all expire next season. The one he picked up expires in 6 more years.
Then, with the cap savings on this year, he takes up most of it with OEL, and pretty much the rest in Travis Hamonic and Tucker Poolman. There is absolutely zero case for giving Tucker Poolman that deal, especially after he did it to Roussel and Beagle.
He still has Tyler Myers under contract for 3 more years. Which means his guys that should be second-pairing defensemen are making over 13 million against their cap, which is literally insane.
Not to mention that trying to acquire OEL last year cost him Tyler Toffoli, Troy Stecher, and Chris Tanev. The Toffoli that he gave up a second round pick and a very good prospect to get, the Toffoli that actually wanted to bacome back to Vancouver. How many goals did Toffoli score against the Canucks this year?
He signed Braden Holtby last year even though he was clearly on the decline, gave him a back-loaded deal that made it harder to trade him this year, insisted that he could trade him anyway, and then had to buy him out to help afford the rest of his mistakes.
If he had just paid Toffoli and Tanev and Stecher the contracts they got, had skipped out on OEL, then he woudln't have needed to acquire Connor Garland either.
So basically, Benning has been screwing up literally every year, and this year he had to screw the team further just to fix those mistakes, but making a whole series of new ones.
And then there's his drafting.
|In 2014 drafts Jake Virtanen (lol), and then trades McCann to get Erik Gudbranson (and signs him to a ridiculous deal iirc). He drafts Forsling, who he trades for Clendening, who he discovers is a tweener and trades him, too.
In 2015 he gets Boeser, sure, but the only other players out of that draft to play are Brisebois (9 whole games) and Gaudette, who becomes an NHL and they trade him for scrap.
In 2016 he drafts Juolevi (lol) and Lockwood, and the rest of the guys are nothing.
In 2017 he drafts Petterson, but also Lind and Gadjovich, who have 8 games between them, DiPietro, who barely played at all last season, which, I'm sure was great for his development, and Rathbone.
In 2018 he gets Hughes, but Madden is flipped for Toffoli.
Obviously the other years are too recent to judge, but if he gets a single NHL regular out of 2020 and 2021, most people would be very surprised.