The Canucks filled up their roster with replacement players..If you thought that MDZ,Burmistrov,Vanek and Gagner were going to be the elixir that get's us in the playoffs then there's not really much to discuss...JB didn't even bother to acquire a true#1 goalie...Also.from the very outset last season,they had no idea what kind of numbers Boeser would put up...The management knew that last year wasn't their year,so did everybody else....The rest is your opinion.
We've been a bottom feeder in 3 drafts,not 4....You've obviously completely forgotten that the cupboard was virtually empty in 2014.
Its so easy to sit back and be an 'armchair GM"...and most of them are dedicated coach 'potatoes'..so I can see why you think that they would do a better job.
It was a weaker UFA year, and yet, Benning snagged 3 what was considered to be the top 15/20. You say replacement level, I say, the best that he could get... being a shitty team.
No, I don't think they were going to be the elixir that gets us into the playoffs. I'm saying, Benning did (or if he didn't think it, he was sure hoping it... I'd imagine that he'd get less confident in himself the more years of bottom feeding results that pile up). He'd be the first one to pat himself on the back if the Canucks were a playoff team last year, on the backs of his signings. He made moves to try and be a playoff team. Benning acquired a goaltender to duel it out with Markstrom. He thought it would work.
Right, bottom feeder in 4 drafts,
next year, not this one. The Canucks were still riding on the previous regime's team in 2014.
It's irrelevant if posters are couch potatoes, or not. How difficult or not GMing is, also irrelevant. That posters may or may not think GMing is easy, irrelevant. What is
relevant, is that Benning has done a terrible job the last 4 years... and the one shining light, the prospect pool, should be better and deeper than it is, given how shitty of a job that's been done. Think what you want, about me, about other posters... It can't distract from the
fact that Benning is a piss poor GM. If the Canucks assembled the prospect pool they have (exactly, or similar to, what they have now... or what the potato would have recommended), while being a playoff team, I'd be saying what a great job Benning is doing. It would be undeniable. But you know, just as much as I do, that the
only reason the prospect pool is in the top 10, is because the Canucks suck... and, clearly, on the ice, the Canucks suck. The prospect pool would not be the same in
quality if the Canucks were a playoff team the last 3 years, instead of a bottom feeder... and yet, the prospect pool
would be the same in
quantity... and
that is pathetic bottom feeder team GMing. Rebuilding... bullshit.