After the 2013-14 season, Mike Gillis and John Tortorella were fired by the Vancouver Canucks. It was clear that the team desperately needed a retool, or full-on rebuild. However, ownership was not willing to invest the time and resources required for either of these options, they wanted to win NOW. This impatience plagued the franchise for almost a decade, and it cost them a lot of young talent. In this video, I outline how they lost one of these players, Gustav Forsling, in a feeble attempt to become more competitive.
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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