Ruthervin and Lindenning should never be discussed in the same breath.
Nor in the same thread or forum.
Nor on the same planet or galaxy.
There are legitimate criticisms of Ruthervin; and we will never forget the Lafferty debacle, but these are criticisms of a professional GM in the NHL.
Lindenning was nothing more than tomfoolery of the greatest magnitude imaginable, the dismantling of a franchise by incompetent boobery* that was only matched in sheer unbelievability by the gaslighting and intellectually dishonest takes defending it.
*my apologies to boobs everywhere, for making an equivalence between boobs and what Benning did. Honestly, as much as I detest what Benning effed up, I love boobs