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- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:58 pm
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
"Liddell Hart was an admirer of the German generals; he described Manstein as an operational genius ." And in the same way that being an operational genius is still somewhat short of being a military genius, if the years prove that Benning was a drafting genius, that's still some distance from bein...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
I suspect Benning was told that the Canucks really shouldn't suck for the 50th anniversary season, and he had to do what he could about it. It was a fun playoff run, and I'm sure we all enjoyed it. Reflect on this and see if it gives you comfort if the Canucks fall short in 2024. Could be - I suspe...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
Yessiree, a recipe for success to continually and foreverly build through the draft Eventually, somewhere along the way you have to put the brakes on the losing culture as it’s a damn bitch to pull out of Is there a reason that couldn't be accomplished by spending free agent money on free agents wh...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
Fair opinion, however I would say what got the Canucks past the Wild and the Blues? Their depth. To me, the Blues series was a very old, very simple hockey story: The Canucks got playoff quality goaltending, and the Blues didn't. And fair enough, the goalie is part of the team, and Benning can take...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
Miller's contributions also bumped that 1st round pick from a top 10 lottery pick to the #20 pick. (oops, I forgot about the 3rd rounder, and Marek MaSparePart - still a cheap trade.) That was actually part of the point. Because Miller made the team better, the Canucks' 2020 draft pick isn't as goo...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
One non move and one crappy trade by two different GMs and the Canucks could have a pretty elite defence. Eye Bags drafting Shea Theodore instead of Hunter Shinkaruk. Theodore was right under our noses in the Fraser Valley. Ignitowski trading a second round pick for Sven Baertschi. Imagine if Benni...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:38 am
- Forum: Canucks Corner Chat
- Topic: The Great Jim Benning Debate! (And personal insult thread)
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 493690
Honest to the Hockey Gawds, my plan was to shut up about this and let you just enjoy a nice payoff run, but some of you had to blow your genius horn, and at least this one last time, I will answer. Was it a perfect rebuild? Nope. But it was fast, relative to where they started - bad, old, slow, and...
- by Ronning's Ghost
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:48 pm
- Forum: Game Day Forum
- Topic: GDT: Canucks vs Blues. Game 4, 7:30 PM SN
- Replies: 274
- Views: 32712
mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:46 pm
If Jake was worried about losing, well there's plenty of good MMA club where he could learn how to defend himself. But yes, he doesn't appear to be able to figure it out.
My suggestions for hockey-fighting training have always been roundly dismissed on this board.