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Lightning Round: Canucks GM Jim Benning speaks to the media, blames others for team woes

The Vancouver Canucks, who are bad, are only learning now that they are bad. So bad that their GM, Jim Benning, decided to do a press conference to talk about it. In his press conference he gave a weak admission of responsibility, deflecting attention to the major flooding going on in Vancouver than the team itself. Why bring that up in the middle of a question and not at the beginning?

Benning then pointed fingers at his stars, saying Elias Pettersson is not playing well and that’s the reason why the team sucks, while defending his costly offseason acquisitions Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Tucker Poolman, who have made a bad Canucks defense somehow even worse this season.