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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 17 November 2021 10:18 |
If you are basing your opinion on Benson because he lit up AHLers, then we are always going to have a big time difference of opinion on the guy. Go look up the KHL stats or pick any other high end European league you want to look up and I will bet you, you will find a ton of guys who lit up the AHL. I haven't the time to look up every single NHL teams AHL roster but I will bet you that most if not ALL of them are made of primarily never will be NHLers who won't ever get into a single NHL game in their entire hockey career. So while it's great the Benson can dominate never will be NHLers, that jack squat in the NHL. There is nothing about Benson's game that screams NHL player to me. If the Oilers are worried that if he was to be put on waivers, they'd lose him. Oh well. My guess is 30 NHL teams wouldn't even give him a second thought, given that Buffalo is better than I thought, I doubt they would take him so the only team you'd have to worry about is Arizona who's trying about as hard as they can to be horrific. So maybe they might want to take him because Benson might be better than a couple of the never will be, AHLers they are playing.
The only thing I agree with you is that any teams hope is that your bottom 6 outscores your opponents. There is nothing in Benson's game that says he can help the Oilers bottom 6 do that because he does little to nothing when he is on the ice.
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I know you love to make decisions and proclamations on kids from very small sample sizes but this might be next level for you. Benson's played in 12 NHL games, only 5 of which have come this year. The others were two years in the rear view.
He's 23 years old (ie. pretty young), has scored at about a point per game in the AHL, and has averaged 7 minutes of ice time in the 5 games he's got, playing with the worst players the Oilers have. If you think that's enough to go on, then great. Me, I'd like to give him a push over someone who we know sucks like Kyle Turris. If he doesn't work out in a longer stretch, then bring up Marody and try him.
The bottom 6 has been a disaster so far, and Benson's played less than any of them so maybe put him in and see what he can do.
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