Note: This is a lot later than I intended it to be. I owe my fellow contributors a very large apology for not getting this up much, much earlier. And I apologize to the readers for the delay as well. I still felt I owed it to everyone to finally get this post up, but some of the responses are almost a month old.
The conventional wisdom among Canucks-watchers says Mike Gillis recommended a tear-down rebuild but was overruled by ownership. Why do you think Mike Gillis’ lack of rebuild gets blamed on ownership, but Linden and Benning are blamed for the lack of a rebuild under their watch?