Yes, we were lucky to hire such a winner
And he’s so handsome too!
Yes, we were lucky to hire such a winner
Yeah.. but he's an actual Sens fan.Oh Melnyk does meddle in hockey ops indeed, and has meddled with the media as well when he was getting unfavourable press
This isn't on Benning, Green, or Weisbrod. They can't fire themselves. The problem throughout this organization is accountability from the players to the owner. No one is ever held accountable it's just one excuse after another.
This is really my only hope. The media here has been complacent in the pathetic performance of this team forever. I think the general fan reaction to this gong show has (finally) gotten them to change face... Knowing the media though, they'll win 2 games in a row and proclaim we owe Jim an apologyThey may have badly miscalculated and lost the media here that has been so sympathetic to their failings.
Just astonishing levels of arrogance. How dare you report that our terrible team is terrible!
I have a plan to get any Canucks owner to fix the team into a winner. Just apply a scaling tax to their assets based on how well the team did last season where worse performance means higher taxes and better performance means lower taxes. Winning then generates you even more income than it usually would.
It's speculated that he only really cares about earning income and would be basically fine just barely making the playoffs every season. That and we've seen that he doesn't seem to like firing his staff if they have much left on their contracts, I mean how else can you explain Benning and Green still having jobs?And this would work because Aquilini hasn't been trying to win and generate playoff revenue?
He fired Gillis and Torts with 4 years left on their contractsIt's speculated that he only really cares about earning income and would be basically fine just barely making the playoffs every season. That and we've seen that he doesn't seem to like firing his staff if they have much left on their contracts, I mean how else can you explain Benning and Green still having jobs?
That’s easy. He would throw Benning under the bus. Years ago he threatened litigation when accused of meddling with the team.I want someone from the media to directly ask Aquilini, “It’s been rumored that you make a lot of decisions on the hockey side of the organization and don’t allow GMs the ability to be independent. Is this true?”
Then he will obviously say it’s not true, which then the media member could say, “So the situation with where the hockey team is today is all Jim Benning’s making?”
He’d either have to come clean and say he screws around with things or he’d have to throw Benning under the bus and put it all on him.
I know it’s asking too much for someone in this media to ask a tough question though.
The absolute thinnest of skins.
He has the even easier out of hiring a POHO, but too stupid to get over his ego.No.
Ownership had such an easy out by just firing Benning and letting competent people take control. Instead they've managed to do everything possible to turn the crosshairs on themselves.
He fired Gillis and Torts with 4 years left on their contracts
can someone post his letter to bill belichek where he mixes up "your" and "you're" in the first sentence
He fired Gillis and Torts with 4 years left on their contracts
Can we get Ryan Reynolds to buy his home town hockey team?
At least he would then be too busy to meddle.
I think the most infuriating part of this whole saga is that Francesco is holding these meetings with Benning and what not - is there something missing that your dumbass hasn’t learned in the past 7 years about Jim that you’ll learn through this?
This is pretty benign stuff. If all he was doing was using the team as a vehicle to schmooze with celebrities but he kept his nose out of the day-to-day operations, I’d be totally fine with it (in spite of the woo woo nature body guru thrust onto the players).
i think we have reached the everybody has to throw things at the ice stage
pacifiers would be my preference
This
This is pretty benign stuff. If all he was doing was using the team as a vehicle to schmooze with celebrities but he kept his nose out of the day-to-day operations, I’d be totally fine with it (in spite of the woo woo nature body guru thrust onto the players).
He’s clearly not a good writer and perhaps that’s reflective of his intelligence. Who knows. But I’m far more concerned with his hands-on involvement with the team and his shielding of Benning from consequences for years.it's quite amusing and I think revealing of his management style that he would send out an email containing the sentence "I hope your enjoying your off season with your family after your incredible championship season"