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Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year [message #791090 is a reply to message #791088 ]	Wed, 11 August 2021 17:29

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inverno76 wrote on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:24

RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 11 August 2021 15:49

I don't buy what I think is a BS excuse some fans use that the "coach is bias towards vets". The coach is bias towards trying to win games. I have seen posted in this site for YEARS about the Oilers not being good enough and they need to win. If a young guy wasn't ready or good enough despite what the arm chair GM's in here think, they didn't play.

For years, the Oilers treated the NHL like a development league for young guys. Their team lacked talent so they gave an unready guy like a Benson an automatic spot no matter what then watched him flounder in the NHL because he wasn't good enough or ready. Lighting up the AHL doesn't mean squat. They had a small camp last year, Benson was there and Shore, a guy on a PTO, beat him out for a job. That's no ones fault but Benson's. If he was good enough, he would have made the team. The whole Covid thing only made things harder because you couldn't call up guys like you normally would. Benson is a local kid and if he had a remotely decent camp at all, the media would be all over him pumping his tires like he's the next one. He hasn't done anything in all the years he's been in the camp to stand out. I am pulling for Benson because I like the fact he's a local kid and mostly because they used a very high 2nd to get him. Players taken as high as he was are supposed to be NHLers in my opinion. If he wants a job, then win a a damn job. Go out there play hard, bang some bodies if you have to even though that's not your game. He's supposedly real good on the wall, well go out there and win some puck battles against Nurse or someone of note. Dominating some junior kid or never will be NHLer does nothing. Pick out the guys you know are on the team and go our there and win battles against them. Anytime he is up against Shore or whoever he sees as standing in his way, he better beat that guy in every drill. Win yourself a job.

Blaming the coach because he is "bias" I think is a lazy cope out in my opinion. The coach ultimately wants to win so make yourself stand out as a guy that looks to be someone that can help the team win and he will get a job.

You are putting a lot of emphasis on training camp. How many times have we seen some kid dominate the NHL preseason to only disappear to Europe?

In the past we pushed kids into the lineup too fast and now they never get a sniff. Oil are right up against the cap. These contracts for Benson, Marody, Bouchard, Perlini are important. Sure would be nice to nail one value deal in the bottom 6.

For the record. I don’t mind Shore, but Turris, Russell, Nygaard, Haas, etc could’ve been filled internally.

Also, we pretty much only rushed first round picks in to the lineup because it helped to sell hope during the dark days. It wasn't like we were rushing every 18-20 year old in to the lineup immediately. I don't think a single 2nd round pick (like Benson) was rushed in fact.

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Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: smyth260 on Wed, 11 August 2021 11:54
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: RDOilerfan on Wed, 11 August 2021 12:20
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: smyth260 on Wed, 11 August 2021 12:50
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: Adam on Wed, 11 August 2021 14:34
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: RDOilerfan on Wed, 11 August 2021 15:49
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: inverno76 on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:24
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: Adam on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:29
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: Adam on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:27
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: inverno76 on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:41
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: Adam on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:57
Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year	By: inverno76 on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:17
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