Banner calling for firing of Canucks GM Jim Benning flies over Metro-Vancouver

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — A plane took to the skies in Pitt Meadows and made its way around Metro Vancouver with a banner that read “#FireBenning,” referring to Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning.

The GoFundMe campaign was spearheaded by a notorious member of Canucks Twitter, Uncle Laleet, to raise $1,600 to send a plane up with a banner to fly over Vancouver for an hour.

The purpose of the campaign was because the fans have been longing for a Stanley Cup win for 50 years, and they say mediocrity will no longer stand.

“Canucks fans have been suffering for seven years. Jim Benning has continually shown ineptitude and is clearly in over his head,” the GoFundMe reads. “Canucks fans are demanding that the Owners of the Vancouver Canucks fire Jim Benning and replace him with a management team that can build a Stanley Cup championship team immediately. The city of Vancouver has supported this team for 50 years and we are not supporting this three ring circus any longer.”

Benning is in his seventh season as Canucks GM, and the club has made the playoffs just twice in that timeframe.

This year, it’s also been a turbulent one for the local hockey club, with a slow start on the ice followed by a COVID-19 outbreak that recently rolled through the organization.

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