I hate Jim Benning. Fuck Benning for life. I will never forgive him.
SpectreFire
To be fair to Benning, it’s really hard to multi-task when he and Weisbrod share a single half-braincell between them.
Feralwestcoaster
We should build a statue of benning. Out of wood. And burn it. Wait, is that an effigy? Cool, fuck him.
CuffMcGruff
Picturing Tanev packing another brimmer while he waits for a call from jimbo who just forgot he existed
Lancelot_Stroller
Man, this makes me sad. Tanev was awesome. He really did give everything to this organization. To be disrespected like that after all of the time he spent is gross. Fuck you Benning.
rajde1
I don’t have a problem with them not re-signing him, but they should have a plan instead of scrambling to get things done.
crap4you
Did Benning run out of time?
electricnux
This part 🙁
> “I was sort of upset by it all. I think if I did it again, maybe you take a bit of the emotion away from it. They did end up offering me [a contract] a couple of hours into free agency. I was already sort of upset. I didn’t really want to be back at that point. I wanted to go somewhere where people wanted me.”
It sounds like now he regrets a bit making that decision while being upset and not re-signing here
digitalcashking
Too busy getting Toffoli signed I guess. Oh wait…
VancityRenaults
Was Benning was so fixated on getting OEL that he put everything else on the back burner, including signing Tanev? It’s been reported before that he was close to a deal with ARI one year before the actual trade but it fell through because Coyotes wanted too much.
JerbearCuddles
Old news. Tanev, Stecher and Toffoli all said the same thing. No contact with management. I remember how upset I was we didn’t even talk with Stecher or Toffoli. Tanev at that time I was sort of okay losing, but I still would have liked management to at least speak with him.
Hinkil
Could have got him for the same or less money and not use an asset. Great job as usual but benning
TurbanGhetto
I think we are stupid to trade for him unless it’s miraculously just a mid round pick (it will be much more than that Calgary will be seeking).
We can sign him in the summer for free. He loves this town and organization.
JTMilleriswortha1st
FUCK BENNING
FEDD33
Benning is a true idiot. But many on this sub were happy to have Schmidt over Tanev that summer.
mabbz
When they say Jim Benning was on a Cup winning FO, they need to add like a bunch of footnotes to that.
PaperweightCoaster
Busy watching OELs draft tape on repeat, we’ve all been there.
TheRealTollah
That offaeasom broke me. Losing all those guys, only to bring in older, worse more expensive players, and giving up the farm for it.
Fuck Benning.
yet_another_dave
There have been lots of bad GMs over the years who have made bad moves. Guys like Millbury and Chiarelli. But nobody has seemed so completely at sea in the job like Benning did. Being a competent GM was just clearly way beyond his capabilities as a thinker.
JunoVC
Benning, the oily food stain you just can’t seem to wash out.
souleman96
Canucks fan from Rochester, NY here. Watched Tanev play in college at RIT for a few years and was ecstatic to see him picked up for the cup run. I am just getting back into regularly watching hockey after 9 years of having it on the back burner raising twins (good year to jump back in, eh?) and reading this article is absolutely heart breaking.
uriahjokes
Benning is such a moron
dattroll123
never communicated with Tanev was too fixated on OEL only offered Tanev a contract at the last minute loses Tanev, Toffoli, and Markstrom to UFA for nothing
Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Benning!!!
Motor-Post-8845
Jim the shithead benning creating a lasting legacy
DisplacedNovaScotian
This makes it even more infuriating, and that’s saying something. Our D has literally had a Tanev-sized hole since he left. This is exactly the player whose contributions we’ve been trying to replace ever since! He was important for the PK, as an even strength partner for Hughes, etc. And all of that as an RD. And Benning just sort of…didn’t make an offer ’til free agency already started?? That’s not like making a late offer to a middling fourth line checker. This is a player who can be a key contributor to any team out there. So when you do that, you’re effectively saying goodbye because of course Tanev is going to get an offer right away!! And what even was the rationale?? Did they “run out of time” a la Toffoli?? If they let their UFAs walk as some sort of business decision, that’s one thing. But it doesn’t seem like that was it. It seems it just sort of…happened? What a fucking joke.
thewinn
Man the more that is coming out about Benning, I knew he was shit but not like I’m a 5 year old playing be a gm mode shit
Looney_forner
And to think we chose an alleged rapist who never scored 20 goals in any season over him and Toffoli
sasksasquatch
I think this confirms Jim Benning is a terrorists to the Canucks organization.
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I hate Jim Benning. Fuck Benning for life. I will never forgive him.
To be fair to Benning, it’s really hard to multi-task when he and Weisbrod share a single half-braincell between them.
We should build a statue of benning. Out of wood. And burn it. Wait, is that an effigy? Cool, fuck him.
Picturing Tanev packing another brimmer while he waits for a call from jimbo who just forgot he existed
Man, this makes me sad. Tanev was awesome. He really did give everything to this organization. To be disrespected like that after all of the time he spent is gross. Fuck you Benning.
I don’t have a problem with them not re-signing him, but they should have a plan instead of scrambling to get things done.
Did Benning run out of time?
This part 🙁
> “I was sort of upset by it all. I think if I did it again, maybe you take a bit of the emotion away from it. They did end up offering me [a contract] a couple of hours into free agency. I was already sort of upset. I didn’t really want to be back at that point. I wanted to go somewhere where people wanted me.”
It sounds like now he regrets a bit making that decision while being upset and not re-signing here
Too busy getting Toffoli signed I guess. Oh wait…
Was Benning was so fixated on getting OEL that he put everything else on the back burner, including signing Tanev? It’s been reported before that he was close to a deal with ARI one year before the actual trade but it fell through because Coyotes wanted too much.
Old news. Tanev, Stecher and Toffoli all said the same thing. No contact with management. I remember how upset I was we didn’t even talk with Stecher or Toffoli. Tanev at that time I was sort of okay losing, but I still would have liked management to at least speak with him.
Could have got him for the same or less money and not use an asset. Great job as usual but benning
I think we are stupid to trade for him unless it’s miraculously just a mid round pick (it will be much more than that Calgary will be seeking).
We can sign him in the summer for free. He loves this town and organization.
FUCK BENNING
Benning is a true idiot. But many on this sub were happy to have Schmidt over Tanev that summer.
When they say Jim Benning was on a Cup winning FO, they need to add like a bunch of footnotes to that.
Busy watching OELs draft tape on repeat, we’ve all been there.
That offaeasom broke me. Losing all those guys, only to bring in older, worse more expensive players, and giving up the farm for it.
Fuck Benning.
There have been lots of bad GMs over the years who have made bad moves. Guys like Millbury and Chiarelli. But nobody has seemed so completely at sea in the job like Benning did. Being a competent GM was just clearly way beyond his capabilities as a thinker.
Benning, the oily food stain you just can’t seem to wash out.
Canucks fan from Rochester, NY here. Watched Tanev play in college at RIT for a few years and was ecstatic to see him picked up for the cup run. I am just getting back into regularly watching hockey after 9 years of having it on the back burner raising twins (good year to jump back in, eh?) and reading this article is absolutely heart breaking.
Benning is such a moron
never communicated with Tanev
was too fixated on OEL
only offered Tanev a contract at the last minute
loses Tanev, Toffoli, and Markstrom to UFA for nothing
Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Benning!!!
Jim the shithead benning creating a lasting legacy
This makes it even more infuriating, and that’s saying something. Our D has literally had a Tanev-sized hole since he left. This is exactly the player whose contributions we’ve been trying to replace ever since! He was important for the PK, as an even strength partner for Hughes, etc. And all of that as an RD. And Benning just sort of…didn’t make an offer ’til free agency already started?? That’s not like making a late offer to a middling fourth line checker. This is a player who can be a key contributor to any team out there. So when you do that, you’re effectively saying goodbye because of course Tanev is going to get an offer right away!! And what even was the rationale?? Did they “run out of time” a la Toffoli?? If they let their UFAs walk as some sort of business decision, that’s one thing. But it doesn’t seem like that was it. It seems it just sort of…happened? What a fucking joke.
Man the more that is coming out about Benning, I knew he was shit but not like I’m a 5 year old playing be a gm mode shit
And to think we chose an alleged rapist who never scored 20 goals in any season over him and Toffoli
I think this confirms Jim Benning is a terrorists to the Canucks organization.