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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Goose wrote on Mon, 17 January 2022 11:56 |
| GabbyDugan wrote on Mon, 17 January 2022 09:48 |
Tyler Benson has been given plenty of opportunities; maybe he will someday take advantage of same or someone else will.
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Good post Gabby, always good to hear from all perspectives.
Just a bit of push-back on this point though, I don't think Benson has been given much of a shot. He's dressed for 17 games, but he's averaging 8 minutes a game. Of those 17 games he's only had 4 where he's played more than 10min and 4 where he's played less than 6. He's played the fewest minutes of any Oilers forward that has played more than 1 game. Less than Turris, Shore, etc.
I'm not saying he's been awesome, but he's probably the best passer on the team outside of the big 3. Would make some sense to me to put him with someone that can shoot the puck and let them run for a bit.
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This would be my one nitpick too. Not only is Benson getting tiny minutes when he's in, but he's mostly had guys like Shore, Ryan and Turris with him when he is in. The one time he played with McLeod, they produced a goal, but we've never seen that combination again.
His leash is also so ridiculously short, that he's got to go out on the ice afraid to make a single mistake, because Tippett's shown again and again that he's happy to bench him for any reason.
Also - I have a bit of an issue with the way that the media covers offensive zone penalties. There's a desire to have better forechecking, and to have more sandpaper, but then wheenver a guy, especially a player that the team or media have crosshairs on, takes a penalty while forechecking, that's criticized roundly. I think you have to accept that it's a price of doing business if you want guys in hard. Sometimes they're going to get penalties, whether for the aggressive hit, or for reaching with their stick when they're close. This is even more of a pet peeve of mine given how inconsistent NHL reffing is. They can allow 10 hooks in a row, and then call an innocuous one - but if the recipient is one of a handful of players (Yamamoto and Benson being prime among them here) then they get roasted for that. When he ran over the one goalie - that was a dumb penalty and should be criticized, but many of Benson's minors have just been due to him being up on the play - and yet it's often the last time he sees the ice that game.
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