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Re: Tyler Benson Re-Signed for 1 Year [message #791094 is a reply to message #791093 ]	Wed, 11 August 2021 17:57

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inverno76 wrote on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:41

Adam wrote on Wed, 11 August 2021 17:27

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.

Do you really think anyone had time to "beat out" someone at camp?

First off, that should never, ever happen. Even in a full camp, you should not make critical decisions on your team based on what happens in a couple week stretch playing against sub-par competition. I'm fine with paying lip service to that, but your team really should be pretty well set and that shouldn't be flipped upside down because someone had a hot or cold streak in meaningless scrimmages or exhibitions.

Secondly, there were only a few days, and the Oilers have spent two years talking about "over-ripening". They were going to keep guys like Benson in the AHL as long as they could, because someone said that's the Detroit model (although the Red Wings actual history doesn't support that).

Thirdly, if the coach had brought up Benson and he failed to make an impression and then he went back to using vets that were more solid, or if the vets hadn't sucked and so there was no cause to try anything different, I could agree with your points potentially, but the fact is, Benson was one of the AHL's leading scorers, and our depth players were historically awful. They put up pathetically little offence and just got buried defensively - the area where the bulk of them are supposed to be decent. Shore was literally one of the worst players in the entire league. Haas accomplished nothing for an entire season. Patrick Russell got 8 more NHL games! Other than some of the challenges around COVID protocols, there was nothing stopping the Oilers from trying out Benson or Marody or both along with McLeod. They did not and instead just kept going with what was not working. That suggests a level of stubbornness or bias for Tippett.

The other thing I saw along this line today that made me cringe was this:

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Jim Matheson
@jimmathesonnhl

Tyler Benson is clearly too good for AHL (point-a-game) and now has to prove he's an NHLer. He's got offensive tools obviously but like many bottom six hopefuls has to be very good at one thing to stick.

Matheson is clearly a dinosaur and out of touch, but I think that he's still closer to the thinking of Oilers brass than most in here. This "specialist" theory for the bottom 6 has been a complete and total failure for over a decade here, but the Oilers keep just hoping it can finally work for them. Just get good players who are better than other teams bottom 6 players. Virtually anyone can be taught to penalty kill and block shots.

The best teams we've had have generally had really good depth. I don't know why the Oilers are stuck on this stupid theory, but it's bonkers. The only thing I could see having some SLIGHT merit is having a strong faceoff guy there if one of your top two isn't one.

People seem to blindly remember the glory years where the broadcasters would label Tikkanen as a shut down specialist despite the fact he was consistently scoring 20 plus goals a year, even after Gretzky left town. Jarret Stoll was a face off specialist and a great PK guy. He also scored 22 goals and gad 68 points.

I hear you, but I’m still hoping it’s the media who perpetuates this ideology. I know it appears that the management group thinks this way, but this top 9 looks to be a strong forechecking team. I’m hopeful.

We have heard them speak specifically this way in the past. Now, that includes a lot of different crappy managers there, but would it surprise anyone if Lowe and Nicholson believed fully in that now? Or Holland for that matter? It's not like he hasn't lived up to his dinosaur reputation in every way.

Worth noting, I wouldn't ever consider Tikkanen as depth player. He most often played with Gretzky and Kurri in his first years with the team, and was a first liner in the 1990 playoffs with over a point per game in the post-season that year. He's 43rd all-time in playoff scoring.

I was more thinking along the lines of the actual 4th line for the 1990 Stanley Cup playoffs - Murphy/Graves/Gelinas aka the Kid Line. They did provide energy, but they were all legitimately good players who were better than the other teams 3rd and 4th lines. Within a couple years, Murphy was scoring a point per game, and a year after that Graves was setting the New York Rangers single season goal record. Gelinas was a solid player for another 15 years after that.

If you look at the early Oilers, guys like Lumley, Hughes, Hunter, MacTavish were all players who could really play. MacTavish was known as a faceoff guy but he was also a really good penalty killer and two-way player (I believe that he also got Selke votes alongside Tikkanen) AND he scored high 30s to low 50s in points every year. There weren't a lot of passengers on those teams or players who just dumped the puck out for 10 minutes a night and hoped for the best while giving the actual players a rest.

A guy like Shore, who only is good at penalty killing for the 1-2 minutes a night he's out there doing that is a liability if his other 8 minutes are all bad.

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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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