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Benison !!

Okposo ended up making the pass but Benson made a heady play to prevent it from getting to the CBJ guy

The team from last year is making an appearance

Levi doing what he can to help

My god, you can see what Bryson is in this game clearly. He’s a tweener who lacks any elite skill aside speed

Why are they so against shooting

Can’t fault Levi when he lets in 1 great chance out of 5

Biro, is cursed

I do hope they give Benson a couple games but I do want him to go back to Jrs and bulk up a bit

His leadership and present value is worth his present contract. He'll be making 4mil per for his 33,34,35,and 36 year old seasons. His style of play isn't exactly known for longevity and continued health. The ouch is that this is a 4 year extension, so he's now locked in for 5 years which generally only contains loss of ability.

Not really, we play 7 preseason games and don't plan to play our starters in all 7 so you need bodies. There could also be gamesmanship in Adams intending to dump all his AHL forwards at once when everyone else does to deter claims.

Guess we’ll see each of the 3 get a game

The Wild just handed Foligno a 4x4mil extension that will take him through until he’s 36, ouch

Solid game, definite rust but grew as the game went on. Benson has all the talent he needs to be an NHLer but is probably akin to Reinhart in being a guy who might get a few games but play in the WHL with specific goals in mind.

If Benson keeps playing this well as well as Seattle doesn’t get a better coach the Sabres might give him a few games before sending him back

The reason it was misspelled was due to it originally being a character name in Star Wars Galaxies which carried over as my forum tag and I just stuck with it. Very good movie As for my original point, I know its absurd but I have a very hard time trusting the NHL not to be absurd. Especially after telling us we like the moving ads on the boards and that they are somehow making the game easier to watch. That, and about 15 minutes prior to typing this I literally happened to see something about the new woman's hockey league and it put me in a sour state of mind. (Ticked off they dropped Buffalo's team)

It’s more the motive than actuality; you give an inch they’ll take a mile. Remove fighting due to injury potential then they’ll cage all the masks, then you remove body checking, then actively bring women into the league since there would be no rule differences. While I doubt this is some kind of overarching plot behind the scenes; I wouldn’t put it past some of the PR and marketing gurus up top. Secondly, fighting allows for some rage to subside inside a game and unlike JohnC, I’m not at all interested in calling even more penalties and cracking down hard on everything. I don’t want 7 PPs a game purely due to slashes between whistles or ejections left and right. Ideally I want 5v5 hockey with the full 18 skaters every game. Additionally I see no reason to remove the ability to fight seeing as it rarely occurs. We had 4 I think last year; that’s 1 every 20.5 games. When is the last time we saw a legit brawl? I’m not exactly pro-fighting, I don’t want it every game but I am very much anti-no fighting.

The only "staged" fights nowadays is when a more gritty player targets a guy who drilled a less physical or now injured teammate. To me that is merely an extension of the heat of the moment. Additionally the occasional fight can energize a team to turn things around. For me the health factor is irrelevant; if you take out fighting due to injury risks then checking isn't far behind and don't tell me I'm using a slippery slope fallacy. Players can literally get hurt from a soft check into the boards. Essentially as soon as you open up the injury box, anything can be made considered problematic.

Frankly I think the first and third are rather stupid honestly and/or gimmicky. I don't hate the 2nd one but really not a fan of tweaking NHL rules

K

Uh, this game isn’t on MSG or NHLN?

Kane can’t play until January so even his signing wouldn’t effect the out of camp roster

Warts and all Kane, depending on the purpose and usage Kane could be a nice piece for any playoff run. The guy is clutch and has 3 Cups and a Conn Smythe to his name. I'm not worried about his past as he's certainly grown up. Give him a a 1 year deal, let him get conditioned in Rochester and give Quinn all the time he needs to recover. My hope would be Kane's homecoming and desire to come back from a surgery no one has before would give him plenty to play for. If he flames out and is forced to retire, so be it. He's without a doubt a HoFer regardless.

I wouldn’t do it honestly, Zegras doesn’t exactly fit a need we have and is just more of the same.

My guess is Anderson will have some type of job in the front office or coaching staff.