Players you like or dislike come and go if you’ve been a fan for that long, it’s more the brand of hockey that I currently don’t like with the Canucks, more so than the actual players. They play a soft, slow brand of hockey. At the end of the day you can play many styles of hockey and be successful with it, you really need players who fit your system though, something Canucks management has not been good at since Mike Gillis was the GM.
Like him or hate him, he acquired players that fit his brand of hockey that he wanted to play and they were really successful at it, almost winning a stanley cup.
Gillis was barely better of a GM than Benning was. There is a reason why none of them have gotten a job as GM since. The biggest problem is that top quality GM’s don’t want to work with Aquilini cause of the type of POS he is.