I don't know of anyone who thought that the OEL trade was a good idea. It reeked of a GM trying to save his own job by sacrificing a future for a chance at a few playoff games. Just absolutely pathetic.
I am not as upset about the draft pick misses as I am about that. Every team has had poor draft picks and that is part of the deal with picking 18 year olds, sometimes they just don't develop (Tkachuk was the f'n easy pick though)... But Benning did his best to drive the next 5 years of Canucks chances into the ground on his way out the door. Just so many frustratingly poor choices all around.
The team is made up of overinflated contracts with underperforming results, a coach on borrowed time and a sense that nothing will get better in the near future.
The bubble run is what gave people the illusion that they were something that they weren't... When they were just a mediocre team that had unsustainable goaltending.
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