Management Thread | Blurst of Times

[I am toxic]

Stop stop stop stop stop

We’ll get a chance to rebuild if Hughes decide to leave. Don’t have this loser mindset where you try to trade away the best D ever drafted by the team beacuse competing is hard.


Another one of Benning’s parting gift. Hughes and Petey should’ve both been on 8 year contracts. f*** that fat piece of shit.

Anyone else (not saying you did, just venting) who said oh look what Benning left us as if he did something good should STFU.

Easy now

Let's not disparage fat pieces of shit by comparing them to Benning

 

[lawrence]

hindsight comment.

I wished we kept Horvat. We did tender him a reasonable offer at 7.8, which was his agents asking price during the summer. But we opted to sign Jt MIller first, who was a superior offensive player at that time. now lookin back I wish we actually kept Horvat, trade Jt Miller, Keep Kuzemko and go from there.

 

[andora]

hindsight comment.

I wished we kept Horvat. We did tender him a reasonable offer at 7.8, which was his agents asking price during the summer. But we opted to sign Jt MIller first, who was a superior offensive player at that time. now lookin back I wish we actually kept Horvat, trade Jt Miller, Keep Kuzemko and go from there.

Not getting into the details of the whole Miller thing but for a team that's locked a lot of passion over different periods in the last several years Bo was not going to cut it

 

[theguardianII]

Tariffs and lowering Canadian dollar will or should how team's are built.

More important than ever will the draft and players under RFA become.
Teams can draft good to great players and have cap control on them for up to 8 years.

A 100 million dollar cap, in US dollars, is today costing Canadian teams 145 million CDN dollars.

I expect an internal cap might happen now.
This should change the TDL expectations.

On Miller;

Many posters knew he was this when motivated, there is no surprise.
Hopefully there is a team that see's his rebound performance and believe Pettersson can as well.

Pettersson's cap hit the way he is performing has just become even more impactful.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

It's hard to blame this on Benning / Aquilini when Linden was the team president and responsible for setting the direction of the team. Unlike the Sedins, he chose to learn on the job and as a result made a lot of mistakes.

Obvously in comparison to Benning he is well spoken and so avoids a lot of the heat, but he deserves equal blame for denying the Sedins a chance to win the cup.

Wonder what happens if we let him learn and dont choose Benning.

Sakics start with the Avs was a disaster.

 

[Jyrki21]

This is just hugely problematic. I noticed that Canucksarmy noted that today is the anniversary of the Mogilny-Morrison trade. A perfect example of a trade that Aquilini would have nixed because of his short-term thinking, since the 1999-2000 Canucks were still fighting for a playoff spot, and Mogilny was a "name" player while Morrison was still largely a prospect.

Imagine if that trade doesn't get made because of ownership that doesn't understand what investment or opportunity cost are...

edit: Before anyone inevitably comes back with "the revenue is important to him! You can't discount that!" What I regularly ridicule about Aquilini is he doesn't seem to understand that building a sustained contender will result in far more revenue than going all-in for these tiny little peaks every eight years or so.

 

[supercanuck]

Wonder what happens if we let him learn and dont choose Benning.

Sakics start with the Avs was a disaster.

Linden's biggest mistake was vouching for re-signing that backstabbing traitor in 2018. He might still be here otherwise.