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Kr55 Messages: 9889
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Adam wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:46 |
Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:45 |
Kr55 wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:34 |
Adam wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:32 |
Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:24 |
RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:23 |
Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:22 |
Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:20 |
Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 12:17 | Benning lands in Nashville... 2 years 1 mill AAV
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It seems he took less than what the oilers were offering?
I'd fire his agent..
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He wanted to play... in chatting with Holland he didn't see his chance at being a regular fixture, which is why he didn't take what they offered.
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Makes sense to me. I saw him as a place holder for Bouchard.
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and from the Journal interview, that's what he kinda of eluded too.
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It did sound in the Journal article like he was more concerned with what role was offered than what money was.
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It's interesting how confident we are that Benning wouldn't have a place in our lineup.
I don't share this confidence.
It is however nuts to look at the D group Nashville has now after all these years of being completely loaded.
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It's more his own view of not seeing his place in the top 6, than us I think. He's a dang good 3rd pairing dman IMO
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Nah - I think the Oilers were clear to him that they want to break in Bouchard, so he could have a bunch of nights in the press box. Reading between the lines on what he said, I did not get the feeling he was being told he had a spot on our opening game roster.
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We're just such a nice team. Like when we bought out Gryba instead of burying him in the AHL to recoup 100% of his cap hit, and let him sign in Jersey, where he was buried in the AHL.
Gotta be nice to Benning and make sure he know how excited we are that he isn't gonna have a place in our lineup because of a guy that has barely touched NHL ice that "might" be ready. Let someone else get a reliable 3rd pair D for 1M.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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