Après la saison 2013-2014, Mike Gillis et John Tortorella ont été licenciés par les Canucks de Vancouver. Il était clair que l’équipe avait désespérément besoin d’une réorganisation ou d’une reconstruction complète. Cependant, les propriétaires n’étaient pas disposés à investir le temps et les ressources nécessaires pour l’une ou l’autre de ces options, ils voulaient gagner MAINTENANT. Cette impatience a tourmenté la franchise pendant près d’une décennie, et cela leur a coûté beaucoup de jeunes talents. Dans cette vidéo, je raconte comment ils ont perdu l’un de ces joueurs, Gustav Forsling, dans une faible tentative de devenir plus compétitif. Comme toujours, si vous avez apprécié cette vidéo, n’hésitez pas à liker, commenter et vous abonner !
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benning's screw-up's were not only numerous but loud. tkachuk, mc cann and forsling are some of the louder ones.
I love that Forsling is getting this attention around the league. He’s been deserving of it for the past few seasons
No, Benning's biggest blunder was for sure Loui Eriksson and the albatross contract he gave him. Second biggest Benning blunder was Ekman – Larsson.
Biggest blunder? I don’t think so. I would argue that the OEL trade was the biggest, but I can see your point. In his strategy to accelerate the retool with 22-26 year olds, losing Forsling was the biggest mistake.
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH bennning!
Benning's performance in Vancouver deleted any chance he ever finds a job in the NHL again. I say that wholeheartedly – he has zero chance any team will ever hire him. I don't think you could say that with 100% certainty about any other GM in NHL history. "Either way you slice it, Steve Yzerman and Joe Sakic are playing 5-D chess, and Jim Benning is gluing macaroni pieces to construction paper." – Rachel Doerrie
I'll be a villain if I must by saying this, but more blame must be put on Trevor Linden.
Who hired Benning – Linden
Who was there when some of the worst contract were signed Eriksson, Beagle etc – Linden
Who was there when they misdraft or rushed prospects to trade them only to see them become top player – Linden
April 9 ,2014 with his becoming president was the start of a literal decade of trash for Vancouver.
And responding "He wanted a rebuild but ownership didn't listen" is excusing the lack of backbone he has, he should have stayed on the ship no matter the hardship instead of tucking his tail in to save face as the golden child of Vancouver who has accomplished nothing.
Meh, he flourished eventually under a strong team in a structure that worked for him. You really think he would magically pan out in Vancouver? Chicago also passed on him after he showed nothing in 43 games.
Benning had a lot of major blunders, but I still don’t see how Linden gets away with his reputation intact when he was the president for over half of Benning’s tenure, and arguably the worst parts of the Canucks legacy (except for the OEL deal)
Stop!!!!! The ptsd 😭
It is not a bad idea to target struggling 23-24 year olds, but certainly not at the price Benning was willing to pay.
Sheary, Rust, Kuhnhackl all made their debuts at 24 and helped the team win a cup in their rookie season, and Dumoulin was 25.
This is a very results-oriented take and underestimates the risks that any draft pick presents when selecting a given player. Canucks' defense in 2015-16 was among the worst in the NHL by a measurable amount, second only to Colorado back then, and Benning had literally zero defensemen in the farm system who looked like they were going to crack the NHL.
Juolevi, on the other hand, came off of captaining Team Finland to a gold medal at the World Juniors and actually posted some great numbers in the OHL alongside Chucky himself, who was actually his teammate in London for 2015-16. Every single scout had Juolevi ranked higher than Chucky at the time, and he was considered a lock at 4th overall up until Columbus went out of order and selected Dubois while Tkachuk was ranked 6th overall by analysts.
Come to think of it, if we had drafted in the projected order, we would have been the ones who would have had to deal with PLD and his locker-room cancer and we wouldn't even be talking about Juolevi!
Benning is the worst GM in Canucks history by a country mile.
Reliving Benning through this video gives me so much rage 😅
Part 2 how the Canucks failed OEL didn’t give him the best opportunity, guy went from -24 to +10
Another great Benning move for the other team like most of his moves and wasn’t he traded hours after the draft ?
Nothing hurts a team more than trading rising stars for the win now impatience, except maybe albatross contracts. Canucks have been good at both during their history.
Jim Benning led the orcas to the Reign of Error, which expands to almost a decade of utter darkness and unholy HELL for the team and its fans. I have never seen another GM who was irredeemably awful at almost every facet of his job: he didn't know anything about asset management, he lost almost all of his trades by a wide margin, he routinely made himself look like an idiot with things such as tampering, he took no responsibility for the team's poor performance, he didn't know how to sign a proper contract for players, he didn't know who to hire to help the organization, he paid no attention to our farm team and player development, he didn't project any strength or confidence in front of the media, he didn't know how to nourish the relationship between players and the team…the list goes on and on. The only thing that he was not awful at was drafting, as he did pick out Hughes Pete and Boeser for us, but at the same time, Virtanen and Juolevi picks should be firable mistakes.
Chicago had 3 seasons with him – Canucks only got a few games
ya it was a benning thing
he's gone move on
Benning was such a bad GM.
I getting PTSD listening to Benning's time as GM.
The problem is entirely aquilini's meddling. trevor linden looked at what they had and said they needed to do things differently in order to have true success. that's not what aquilini wanted to hear, so he canned linden. turns out trevor was right all along, but benning was forced into the stupidity by his boss. benning was great in boston and drafted hughes and demko, he really isn't that dumb
I don’t know how much you can call something a blunder when the team you trade him to gives him away and the team they traded him to puts him on waivers.
I can't believe I made it through the whole video without throwing up. By far the worst manager in team history, and hearing about the meddling ownership who apparently were the ones that wanted Canucks to draft Jake Virtanen. Only one example of how everything these guys did was a mistake. It's a good thing that Hughes fell to us and EP40 had been well scouted. Word is that Benning was big on Cody Glass instead of Pettersson. Judd Brackett and scouts almost begged Benning to take Petey.