Carol Schram: Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning Talks Draft, Offseason Plans Vancouver Canucks general manager shares his thoughts on the Canucks' offseason plans in a wide-ranging interview with Farhan Lalji of TSN.

Carol Schram: Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning Talks Draft, Offseason Plans
Vancouver Canucks general manager shares his thoughts on the Canucks' offseason plans in a wide-ranging interview with Farhan Lalji of TSN.
- Carol Schram

Thanks Carol.

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Thanks Carol.
- A_SteamingLombardi

http://canucksarmy.com/20...ofile-4-pierre-luc-dubois

Posted in the last thread as well...PLD is going to be a stud. Friday can't come soon enough

Scooby....are you watching this US Open, damn it's getting good

Scooby....are you watching this US Open, damn it's getting good
- LeftCoaster

I am. This last hour has been the best of the tournament, huh?

I am. This last hour has been the best of the tournament, huh?
- Carol Schram

The top guys are starting to move up, damn those guys are good!

The top guys are starting to move up, damn those guys are good!
- LeftCoaster

I'm curious to see if DJ and the other leaders are also able to take advantage of these conditions...

I'm curious to see if DJ and the other leaders are also able to take advantage of these conditions...
- Carol Schram

True. DJ normally has a stretch of 9 holes on the weekends in majors where he can't putt…will be interesting if he can get over that hump.

I'm curious to see if DJ and the other leaders are also able to take advantage of these conditions...
- Carol Schram

He's gotta continue to drive it straight and keep his ball striking near perfect. I hope he can, but we've seen this from him before.

Nice putt by Westwood.

As for the interview (Farhan I heard was wearing flip-flops) JB kept scanning the rafters....musta been all those division banners.

I hope we get Dubois. I feel if EDM trades their pick we'll end up with Tkachuk. 6 days till draft day! I'll be in the states at our trailer, so I should be able to get the nbcsn feed. Which will basically be all TSN guys. Nice. Don't have to watch strombo stroke the Leafs/Habs picks.

"Maybe if we'd pursued it, we could have moved him," says Benning. "But I'm not looking to trade Ryan Miller now. I think goaltending is one of the strengths of our team."

Just to point out (seeing as I was one of the people who nearly threw the remote at the tv-screen when it first came out that we had a chance to move Miller, but didn't even look into it)...

The choice wasn't Lack vs. Miller.

Lack was $1.15 million, while Miller was 6. We had the choice of Lack + an extra $4.85 million vs. Ryan Miller plus zero.

Now, you can argue that Miller is a lot better than Lack. But, let's just see...

Lack: 2.81 GAA
Miller: 2.70 GAA

That's a difference of 9 goals over a season.

We spent just under $5 million to prevent 9 goals.

We could have given up those 9 goals - and used that $5 million to get players who could score and who would make significant upgrades to between 1 and 4 slots on our roster. The fact that Benning didn't even seem to realize this fact is worrying, to say the least.

For instance, we could have swapped out Yannick Weber - for Cody Franson - and still had $3 million left to play with! So, instead of Adam Cracknell, we could have had a Joel Ward and his 21 goals or Justin Williams and his 22, etc...

So, we could have given up 9 goals by keeping Lack (and it's questionable that Lack would have been worse than Miller, this might have been 0 goals), lost 0 goals from losing Weber, and lost 5 goals from losing Cracknell - and replaced it with 25 to 43 (or more) goals. Those 29 extra goals would have moved us into the playoffs...

We could have made an almost imperceptible change in our goaltending - but, made our team a hell of a lot better in the process - and our GM didn't even think about it... Uggh...

Didn't he also mention the inquiry came after the draft? when Lack was already gone?

Just to point out (seeing as I was one of the people who nearly threw the remote at the tv-screen when it first came out that we had a chance to move Miller, but didn't even look into it)...

The choice wasn't Lack vs. Miller.

Lack was $1.15 million, while Miller was 6. We had the choice of Lack + an extra $4.85 million vs. Ryan Miller plus zero.

Now, you can argue that Miller is a lot better than Lack. But, let's just see...

Lack: 2.81 GAA
Miller: 2.70 GAA

That's a difference of 9 goals over a season.

We spent just under $5 million to prevent 9 goals.

We could have given up those 9 goals - and used that $5 million to get players who could score and who would make significant upgrades to between 1 and 4 slots on our roster. The fact that Benning didn't even seem to realize this fact is worrying, to say the least.

For instance, we could have swapped out Yannick Weber - for Cody Franson - and still had $3 million left to play with! So, instead of Adam Cracknell, we could have had a Joel Ward and his 21 goals or Justin Williams and his 22, etc...

So, we could have given up 9 goals by keeping Lack (and it's questionable that Lack would have been worse than Miller, this might have been 0 goals), lost 0 goals from losing Weber, and lost 5 goals from losing Cracknell - and replaced it with 25 to 43 (or more) goals. Those 29 extra goals would have moved us into the playoffs...

We could have made an almost imperceptible change in our goaltending - but, made our team a hell of a lot better in the process - and our GM didn't even think about it... Uggh...
- stringerbell

Sorry but you're way off base here, it wasn't Lack vs Miller, but rather Lack vs Markstrom...they chose to keep Markstrom.

This has been beaten to death! The veteran core asked management for a veteran presence in net, Benning gave them what they wanted and what he felt was necessary.

@storm. Somehow I see the nbc feed going gaga over an American going no 1.

Can't wait till he gets fired

I was hoping for the lack and markstrom combo

Can't wait till he gets fired
- sushi

Benning? Be careful what you wish for. His drafting alone may save the franchise from years of the mediocrity we seen in the past.

@storm. Somehow I see the nbc feed going gaga over an American going no 1.
- dbot

don't ruin my day.

Just to point out (seeing as I was one of the people who nearly threw the remote at the tv-screen when it first came out that we had a chance to move Miller, but didn't even look into it)...

The choice wasn't Lack vs. Miller.

Lack was $1.15 million, while Miller was 6. We had the choice of Lack + an extra $4.85 million vs. Ryan Miller plus zero.

Now, you can argue that Miller is a lot better than Lack. But, let's just see...

Lack: 2.81 GAA
Miller: 2.70 GAA

That's a difference of 9 goals over a season.

We spent just under $5 million to prevent 9 goals.

We could have given up those 9 goals - and used that $5 million to get players who could score and who would make significant upgrades to between 1 and 4 slots on our roster. The fact that Benning didn't even seem to realize this fact is worrying, to say the least.

For instance, we could have swapped out Yannick Weber - for Cody Franson - and still had $3 million left to play with! So, instead of Adam Cracknell, we could have had a Joel Ward and his 21 goals or Justin Williams and his 22, etc...

So, we could have given up 9 goals by keeping Lack (and it's questionable that Lack would have been worse than Miller, this might have been 0 goals), lost 0 goals from losing Weber, and lost 5 goals from losing Cracknell - and replaced it with 25 to 43 (or more) goals. Those 29 extra goals would have moved us into the playoffs...

We could have made an almost imperceptible change in our goaltending - but, made our team a hell of a lot better in the process - and our GM didn't even think about it... Uggh...
- stringerbell

I read JB as Brouwer sounds likely but Eriksson is a target depending on term.
Okposo could be in the mix also.
Also see him driving up the price for 5OA or making the pick & waiting for a team to get off the snide if serious. Either way i like his style going into the draft.

I read JB as Brouwer sounds likely but Eriksson is a target depending on term.
Okposo could be in the mix also.
Also see him driving up the price for 5OA or making the pick & waiting for a team to get off the snide if serious. Either way i like his style going into the draft.
- Nighthawk

IMO he'd be very very very wise, for the betterment of the future of the club, to make the selection at #5.

I read JB as Brouwer sounds likely but Eriksson is a target depending on term.
Okposo could be in the mix also.
Also see him driving up the price for 5OA or making the pick & waiting for a team to get off the snide if serious. Either way i like his style going into the draft.
- Nighthawk

I'd like more picks. Unfortunately looks like that won't be the case.

We had 2 2nds. Now we have 0. I'll stop. Won't bring up the TDL again.