Eriksson, Juolevi, and a third
Well to fair he "won" the lottery with that contract Benning gave him !!Coyotes wise to reject it. They lose bigtime.
Brandon Sutter specifically is the type of player who will never win anything.
What a garbage offer. A bunch of spare parts.I wouldn't take that either.
Yep.So what happens next year when the owner has to start paying 10.5mm a year.
I'm still not sure when or why this fiasco started but once your captain is asked to provide a trade list then hes gotta go sooner or later.
Reminds me of Kesler who asked for a trade and ownership balked at a trade offer from the ducks and kept him but the next summer accepted what the ducks gm said was a reduced offer because he was getting an older Kesler.
If he has a bad year his third in a row then the offer gets reduced from that whatever that was lol
I don't remember the penguins in on it just that Kesler wanted out and the ducks were his team although it's been said he had a two team list like OEL so perhaps the pens were there.Is that how it went down? I thought Gillis had tried to trade Kesler the year before to Pittsburgh and ownership stepped in and nixed the deal. Then that off-season Kesler demanded a trade and Benning moving him to Anaheim?
So they should be happy eating Sutter's cap instead, and underselling on OEL?I'm sure Arizona's owners are pumped to be paying OEL a little under $20 mill over the next couple of years.
Vancouver is lucky they turned it down
So they should be happy eating Sutter's cap instead, and underselling on OEL?
I don't remember the penguins in on it just that Kesler wanted out and the ducks were his team although it's been said he had a two team list like OEL so perhaps the pens were there.
I remember it was reported the twins both pleaded with Kesler to stay because with the departure of our 2C selke winner , went any cup hopes of the aging core.
If the Sedins were asking Kesler to stay then it wasnt Gilles forcing him out it seems.
It saved benning from himself because he's not capable of cap management. ARZ did the canucks a favor by not desperately trading their big ticket defender. Let's not pretend Vancouver is one OEL away from winning anything. The offer from Boston wasn't much better by all accounts, they were atleast offering a better prospect though. Can't do much with 2 teams to pick from.I'm sorry, I call BS on all this "Benning was saved from himself here" revisionist history. That frames this as "Arizona was stupid to turn this down" which is a load of malarkey. This is Benning making a low-ball offer for a top pairing defender due to the current climate and it being rightfully turned down. Just because Vancouver didn't have a first rounder this year doesn't mean next year's first rounder is any more valuable to anybody save Vancouver itself. The Canucks are coming off an impressive playoff run led by a young core. That pick isn't going to be / should not be any lower than 20 overall next year. I'd way rather have Pod or Hoglander coming off the year he had or Demko than that pick. Rathbone, sure, probably the pick but the only reason people kept mentioning him is because he was the best blueline asset that most Canucks fans felt was at least somewhat reasonable to part with.
Throw all the stats about OEL declining out there you want, I'm not going to judge a 29 year-old former franchise face defender on the basis of a down year on an organization that has continually struggled. He probably needs to get out of Arizona and the Coyotes need to get something pretty good back for him. If he ends up on Boston, high likelihood he looks a lot better and people will suddenly be like "oh I guess OEL isn't an overpaid bum".
Benning should be praised for doing his due diligence and offering a deal that is very palatable to get a player like OEL. It got turned down, they moved on and Benning STOLE Schmidt for next to nothing. It all came up roses for Vancouver, 100%. That does not mean this was a good offer or that Bill Armstrong is a moron for turning it down.
Agreed. OEL and his contract for the rumoured cost, or Schmidt and his contract for a 2022 third rounder? It’s pretty obvious which is better for Vancouver. Sure looks like OEL is staying a Coyote for a long time now. I guess a GM has to understand this new market, and pounce when he gets a crazy good offer.Very happy, that never happen. Would of been terrible for the Canucks. Ugly contract.
I dont buy that.From Coyotes beat reporter Craig Morgan
Or lack there of. If that was the offer, seems like Vancouver more willing to give up picks than prospects.At the time, wasn't it reported that the issue was the 'quality of the prospect' included in the deal?