Canucks News and Notes

[SKYO]

Gilman/JB on the contracts are doing a great job...what's awesome is next season a lot of players have something to play for, well besides Lord Stanley which is a given, but we got many youngsters who got many things to prove to themselves and our new coaches and management.

[Island Nucklehead]

Gilman/JB on the contracts are doing a great job...what's awesome is next season a lot of players have something to play for, well besides Lord Stanley which is a given, but we got many youngsters who got many things to prove to themselves and our new coaches and management.

It's a fresh change, but remember Benning has no ties to any of these players, and they know it. It will be interesting in year 3-4 of the regime. Even the contracts he's signing (Miler, Vrbata, Kassian, Tanev) are pretty much "show me" contracts. Hasn't been tied to anyone yet...

[vic]

Doug Lidster soon making his return to Vancouver?

Texas Stars have hired an assistant coach. Must mean one of theirs has departed http://gdrinnan.blogspot.ca/
#Canucks #Lidster

Edit: pulled a Pratt...above was a tweet by Jeff Patterson

[SKYO]

Gilman/JB on the contracts are doing a great job...what's awesome is next season a lot of players have something to play for, well besides Lord Stanley which is a given, but we got many youngsters who got many things to prove to themselves and our new coaches and management.

It's a fresh change, but remember Benning has no ties to any of these players, and they know it. It will be interesting in year 3-4 of the regime. Even the contracts he's signing (Miler, Vrbata, Kassian, Tanev) are pretty much "show me" contracts. Hasn't been tied to anyone yet...

Wonder who his first long term contract will be to, maybe BoHo if he becomes Bergeron/Kesler like.

[SKYO]

Doug Lidster soon making his return to Vancouver?

Texas Stars have hired an assistant coach. Must mean one of theirs has departed http://gdrinnan.blogspot.ca/
#Canucks #Lidster

Finally after all these days...if/when it happens.

[Hockey Widow]

Sportsnet Pacific
‏@SNETPacific
#Canucks have added John Weisbrod to the Hockey Operations staff as Vice President, Player Personnel.

Don't know anything about him really.

[Jovocop]

Sportsnet Pacific
‏@SNETPacific
#Canucks have added John Weisbrod to the Hockey Operations staff as Vice President, Player Personnel.

Don't know anything about him really.

He worked with Benning in Boston.

Steven Liberman ‏@StevenLiberman
#CANUCKS have hired John Weisbrod as VP of Player Personnel. Worked with Benning in Boston. #VAN, #NHL

Steven Liberman ‏@StevenLiberman
John Weisbrod began his front office work as a Head Scout for my @NHLDevils.

For whatever reasons, this guy really dislikes Weisbrod...

Retweeted by petbugs
Kyle ‏@KyleKayBee
adding Weissbrod is dumb. Canucks stop being dumb.

[SKYO]

Sportsnet Pacific
‏@SNETPacific
#Canucks have added John Weisbrod to the Hockey Operations staff as Vice President, Player Personnel.

Don't know anything about him really.

He's a Benning guy - it was expected he'd hire him eventually...

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Kuzma ... story.html

Weisbrod could help the Canucks in a number of capacities.

After a season of scouting for the Dallas Stars, Weisbrod joined the Bruins as a pro scout in September, 2006 and after two years became the club’s director of collegiate scouting for three years. During his tenure, the Bruins acquired collegiate defenceman Matt Bartkowski and blue-liner Dennis Seidenberg in 2010 from Florida in exchange for Byron Bitz, Craig Weller and a second-round draft pick. They traded for Gregory Campbell in the same year after landing Johnny Boychuk in 2008 and Adam McQuaid in 2007.

What does this all mean? Weisbrod wasn’t afraid to suggest moves and make them.

Boston Bruins
After a season with the Stars, Weisbrod joined the scouting staff of the Boston Bruins on September 14, 2006 as a pro scout based out of Tampa, Florida. After two seasons scouting the professional leagues, Weisbrod became the Bruins' Director of Collegiate Scouting.

Calgary Flames
On June 27, 2011, Weisbrod was named the Assistant General Manager of Player Personnel of the Calgary Flames after winning a Stanley Cup ring with the Bruins. On December 12, 2013, he was relieved of his duties.

General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Orlando Magic in 2005, As GM, Weisbrod has gained the reputation of a no-nonsense guy.

[xtr3m]

Sportsnet Pacific
‏@SNETPacific
#Canucks have added John Weisbrod to the Hockey Operations staff as Vice President, Player Personnel.

Don't know anything about him really.

He was part of the team that offer sheeted ROR without knowing the rules and passed on Shinkaruk.

[SKYO]

Sportsnet Pacific
‏@SNETPacific
#Canucks have added John Weisbrod to the Hockey Operations staff as Vice President, Player Personnel.

Don't know anything about him really.

He was part of the team that offer sheeted ROR without knowing the rules and passed on Shinkaruk.

Sean Monahan was a homerun pick though and a lot of teams passed on Shink.
Klimchuk seems to be ok, and Emile Poirier was a risk for sure, but he just needs to work on his skating... https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/buzzi ... 12362.html
Feaster was the brains behind ROR, even ryan's agent didn't know about that waiver rule.

Anyways a bit of a reach to add Weisbrod to that Feaster mess in Calgary as Weisbrod is more a scout guy and offering solutions, Gilman is the contract/cap/money master so need to need worry about those absurd offersheet situations plus JB said iirc he doesn't plan on using those(offersheets).

[sagebrush]

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Kuzma ... story.html

Weisbrod wasn’t afraid to suggest moves and make them.

Bold moves indeed.

When with the NBA Orlando Magic Weisbrod orchestrated a mega trade with Houston which went poorly for the Magic, & resulted in death threats from fans.

[SKYO]

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Kuzma ... story.html

Weisbrod wasn’t afraid to suggest moves and make them.

Bold moves indeed.

When with the NBA Orlando Magic Weisbrod orchestrated a mega trade with Houston which went poorly for the Magic, & resulted in death threats from fans.

werdup hard to compare the NBA to NHL though.

ALL THAT MATTERS is the success he had with Benning & Chiarelli prior, as that is the working relationship that we have now for this team.

So, it stands to reason that John Weisbrod, one of the architects of the Bruins’ championship in 2011, would be of interest to new Canucks general manager Jim Benning, the former Boston assistant general manager. It’s already been suggested by Bob McKenzie that Weisbrod will be on board here as an AGM.

After a season of scouting for the Dallas Stars, Weisbrod joined the Bruins as a pro scout in September, 2006 and after two years in that position became the club’s director of collegiate scouting for three years.

During his tenure, the Bruins acquired collegiate defenceman Matt Bartkowski and blueliner Dennis Seidenberg in 2010 from Florida in exchange for Byron Bitz, Craig Weller and a second-round draft pick.

They traded for Gregory Campbell in same year after landing Johnny Boychuk in 2008 and Adam McQuaid in 2007.

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/05/22 ... he-jockey/

[herb]

Lorne Henning is listed as Vice President, Player Personnel & Assistant General Manager.

Is old Lorne being given the boot?

http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?bcid=614

[Southern_Canuck]

The guy that insisted on drafting Mark Jankowski in the 1st round in 2012 is now in charge of Canucks' scouting?

That's really great.

I know, I know - at least they traded down from 14 to 21 and avoided drafting:

Zemgus Girgensons
Cody Ceci
Tom Wilson
Tomas Hertl
Teuvo Teravainen
Andrei Vasilevski
Scott Laughton

And afterwards Weisbrod boasted that Jankowski was going to be the best player taken in the 2012 draft. Yep, really great.

S_C

[SKYO]

Oh he's in charge of drafting?