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Puck Headlines: Sweater weather and Cabin Boy fever
Puck Daddy — ... • Tom Benjamin knows five things about the Canucks' new GM, including: "He has no management experience and he has just been hired to manage a $100 million dollar a year business." [Canucks Corner] ...

Meet Mike Gillis
james mirtle — "The agent business is full of guys with big balls", says one high-ranking NHL management figure. "But Mike Gillis has the biggest balls of all." He's had five days on the job, and we're only now getting an idea of just what the Canucks new GM plans to bring to the table. To be perfectly honest, my knowledge of Mike Gillis prior to last week was along the lines of Tom Benjamin's : I knew he was a former player who'd become a relatively successful agent, and someone whose name had popped up every so often when management roles became available. It's a description that fits many ...