They say they want to get younger, but they’re not in the Dougie Hamilton trade talks and instead were pursuing Milan Lucic? They already have a younger, albeit poor man’s Lucic in Zack Kassian, but they won’t give him the slightest chance to succeed.

We’re a year into this regime and that’s way too early to be reaching any conclusions, particularly given Benning has a scouting background and his strength should be at the draft table. But to borrow a phrase from Harry Neale, the overall impression so far is of two guys trying to carry three pounds of bleep in a two-pound bag.

-Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province on the Vancouver Canucks. Read more on the Canucks and the Eddie Lack trade.