One more year and one million dollars more than I wanted. Would have been happy at 2 years at $2.25 million. I think the Canucks didn't need that third year and at that price.
Confirmed Signing with Link: [VAN] Tanner Pearson signs extension with the Canucks (3 years, $3.25M AAV)
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Uncle Scrooge
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He's a complete unknown.. is having a good playoff in the K but wasn't a top 6er in the regular season. Plus Hoglander is in his sophomore season which is often not something you can rely on even though people always do.
So let's just say, chances are, Pearson will be there.
Diamonddog01
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If he is one of the few who didn’t get it he would’ve been the perfect player to trade. This contract is such a kick in the balls.
God man this team is such a joke. Are you ****ing kidding me. I've tried to defend it but I'm done.
Wandering Cynic
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Benning continues to cement the fact that he is the worst General Manager in the league.
Bertuzzipunch
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So are we supposed to just ignore the good hes done, trade for JT Miller? Drafting petterson, Hughes, Demko, hoglander, boeser. Signing horvat and other main core players to fair deals?
Bold move by the Canucks Upper Management to keep giving out money
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to the point its going to be difficult to negotiate with their two best players.
that is the epitome of playing with fire.
do you I guess
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to the point its going to be difficult to negotiate with their two best players.
that is the epitome of playing with fire.
do you I guess
GermanSpitfire
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Don’t see the big deal here honestly.... Beagle is likely LTIRetired... (3M) Sutter and Edler likely come off the books at seasons end (10M) Eriksson, Holtby and Roussel are UFA’s after 21/22 also. (12.5M)
You’re basically replacing Beagle’s cap hit with Pearson’s. And who says he can’t live up to the deal?
You’re basically replacing Beagle’s cap hit with Pearson’s. And who says he can’t live up to the deal?
One step forward two steps back. That's Jim Benning's reign in a nut shell.
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Bertuzzipunch
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Yet the nucks were terrible before we got the good players (draft pics) in the lineup. All the best parts of the canucks now are all because of benning.
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Lets compare -
Good
Pettersson draft
Hughes draft
Boeser draft
Hoglander draft
Miller trade
Pearson trade - but doesn't make up for the terrible EG trade
Bad
Virtanen draft
Juolevi draft
McCann draft
Every other draft pick made outside of the 1st round with the exception on Demko, Hoglander and Gaudette
Gudbranson trade
Sutter trade
Not weaponizing cap when the canucks had it
Sven Baertschi trade
Beagle signing $ and term
Rousell signing $ and term
Sven signing $ and term
Sutter signing $ and term
Ferland signing $ and term
Eriksson signing $ and term
Gagner signing
Gagner for Spooner trade
Buy out of Spooner
Nilsson signing
I'm sure there's more but i'm having a hard time typing with the tears in my eyes.
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Benning is the dumbest f***ing moron in pro sports.
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Pearson deserved something like 2.5-2.75 on the open market. The problem is, why don’t the Canucks just let him go and free up the space? Why didn’t you just sign Toffoli if you were going to tie up 3.25m anyways in a lesser player? This is why it’s a terrible deal in the grand scheme of things even if he’s only overpaid by about 750k
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He has been the GM for 7 years - in professional sports the entire team turns over in 5 years so its simple time frame not because he has done anything. In those 7 years the Canucks have been one of the worst teams in the league and they are trending downwards again. So guess what the worst parts of the team are all because of Benning as well.
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Well we were doing a rebuild during pretty much his entire time as GM. Not like teams give the canucks their best players so we dont have to go thru hard times. Sorry if im excited with what we have going on right now and the future with the core we finally have. This is a thread talking about pearson and the next three years and i don’t believe its some horrible contract that puts us back into the dark ages for a guy in his late 20’s that has score 20 goals a few times. Keep whining about the past 7 years if u want tho
Benning is GM in name only, the owner is the managing director.
The Owner makes all the decisions and all the tweets.
The Canucks are simply a vanity piece to him and a play toy.
The owner is unlikely to fire Benning because he is a ventriloquist's puppet.
The ventriloquist is unlikely to fire himself because running the hockey operations is intoxicating.
The Owner makes all the decisions and all the tweets.
The Canucks are simply a vanity piece to him and a play toy.
The owner is unlikely to fire Benning because he is a ventriloquist's puppet.
The ventriloquist is unlikely to fire himself because running the hockey operations is intoxicating.
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A lot of overreactions in here. Pearson is a decent middle 6 player and a fair contract for that.
Pastor Of Muppetz
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To be fair..the players who are having a decent season for the canucks..you could count on 3 fingers.
Son of Petter
Who wants to walk with Elias?
Aquilini has it just like he wants it. A hapless yes man that will sit like a lap dog in front of the media while the Aqua family calls a lot of the shots. These 2 boneheads are made for each other, sucks for all us Canucks fans tho. #FireBenning #SellTheTeam
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You were the one that was giving credit to Benning, I'm simply stating he has a far longer list of bad than good - You can be as excited as you want to be but Benning has put this teams development back with poor choices and he has wasted the inexpensive years of our young high end talent so now he has to figure out how to improve the team with no cap and contracts that are impossible to move and an increasing % of the cap needed for core players. I'm not sure how you can watch this team and not whine about the past 7 years. I play and follow sports for the rush of victory not the joys of watching a rock eater turn the Canucks into a perpetual joke.
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So you let Toffoli walk for just over 4.... and then go and sign this? WTF.
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It's just paying $3M for mediocrity (after Canucks fans watch Toffoli lighting it up in Montreal), especially when you've got a few big contracts coming up over the next few years. Ideally, you want to save as much cap space for the big ones then build around them.
You could argue it's (close to) fair value today and at only 3 years the risk is minimal but let's see how they do with their RFAs and where the cap situation is then, but for now it kind of just adds to the potential headache.
