BUFFALO, NY - JUNE 24: Jim Benning of the Vancouver Canucks attends round one of the 2016 NHL Draft on June 24, 2016 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Playing armchair GM is something all fans of the Vancouver Canucks have been guilty of. We look back at trade deadlines and free agency periods of the past with clarity of the present tense, and react with a bowed shake of the head, or take pleasure knowing that our management made the right move. The unfortunate nature of this list is that these transactions carried out by Canucks GM Jim Benning were dead on arrival as soon as the fax was sent.