Confirmed with Link: Devils trade #77 for RW Beau Bennett

[Bleedred]

He's produced at a rate of just under 30 points per 82 games in his career. If he produces just 30 points per year for us or in the lower 30's, that's good for a third liner and much better than the junk we had to deal with last season.

But the biggest thing is him being healthy a significant amount of games. Health is my only concern with him, it's s big one though. But I have no problems with using a rinky dink late 3rd rounder to get him.

 

[The Wumpus]

It was the pick we got from Detroit, so in the long run we ended up trading Zidlicky for Bennett.

 

[VoidCreature]

Just watched the Shero interview about the acquisition. He was asked whether Beau was a top six player, Shero said "I think he can play top six, top nine, top seven". And I was like huh? Seven?

Then it hit me: expansion draft protection. If he doesn't work out but plays enough games, he could always fill part of that "leave 2 guys exposed" part of the deal.

 

[Group Chat Legend*]

Could be a Palmieri-type acquisition but on a smaller scale, Palmieri is looking to be a 1RW so if Bennett can stay healthy and gain some confidence, not much should prevent him from becoming a 2RW. Then DSP as our 3RW?

Im loving it. Shero has done magic with this club in his short stint thus far.

 

[Nature's Minister]

Beau isn't even that good when he is healthy. I do not understand the optimism about this trade.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

the problem is Bennett isnt anywhere near as good as Palmieri

 

[Group Chat Legend*]

Beau isn't even that good when he is healthy. I do not understand the optimism about this trade.

Are you just negative about everything?

You havent had one good thing to say in any of the NJ threads...

 

[Group Chat Legend*]

the problem is Bennett isnt anywhere near as good as Palmieri

If he can become a 2/3RW for us than it was a great trade

 

[Nature's Minister]

Are you just negative about everything?

You havent had one good thing to say in any of the NJ threads...

I have been reasonably positive really up until today, but right now I am having a hard time imagining this team being anything close to good for about five more years.

 

[Devilsgrl35]

the problem is Bennett isnt anywhere near as good as Palmieri

We hit the lottery with Palmieri. It's kind of unfair to expect a trade exactly like that to work out as well as it did.

 

[Group Chat Legend*]

I have been reasonably positive really up until today, but right now I am having a hard time imagining this team being anything close to good for about five more years.

I think you just need to calm down and let Shero work his magic.

The team has done nothing but make positive moves forward, what else do you want them to do? Trade off everything for some elite talent so that we can't make he playoffs even?

 

[Harv]

Just to give you guys an idea how often injured he is..

MOVEMENTS & INJURIES

2016
5/22/2016 Missed the last 2 regular season and first 15 playoff games (undisclosed).
4/07/2016 Undisclosed, day-to-day.
3/24/2016 Missed 26 games (upper body injury).
1/25/2016 Undisclosed, injured reserve.
1/23/2016 Missed 17 games (upper body injury).

2015
12/15/2015 Upper body injury, injured reserve.
10/28/2015 Missed 5 games (undisclosed).
10/16/2015 Undisclosed, injured reserve.
10/15/2015 Undisclosed, day-to-day.
4/24/2015 Missed the last 3 playoff games (upper body injury).
4/20/2015 Upper body injury, day-to-day.

2014
12/31/2014 Missed 16 games (lower body injury).
12/02/2014 Lower body injury, injured reserve.
11/26/2014 Lower body injury, sidelined indefinitely.
11/11/2014 Recalled from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL).
11/04/2014 Assigned to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL).
11/04/2014 Missed 10 games (wrist surgery).
11/03/2014 Assigned to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL) for conditioning purposes.
10/09/2014 Wrist surgery, injured reserve.
3/28/2014 Missed 51 games (wrist injury).
3/21/2014 Assigned to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL) for conditioning purposes.

2013
11/24/2013 Wrist injury, injured reserve.
11/23/2013 Undisclosed, sidelined indefinitely.
11/09/2013 Missed 11 games (lower body injury).
10/15/2013 Lower body injury, injured reserve.
4/23/2013 Missed 1 game (upper body injury).
4/22/2013 Upper body injury, day-to-day.

 

[Captain Lou]

The only thing I'm concerned about is the slotting of the RW's on the depth chart. This almost 100% shuts us out of acquiring any RW of consequence. Ray didn't trade for him to put him on the 4th line.

Palms
Bennett
DSP
??

 

[Devilsgrl35]

What are the injuries Bennett has suffered? Is it bad luck or does he have like concussion issues?

 

[Harv]

What are the injuries Bennett has suffered? Is it bad luck or does he have like concussion issues?

He's not a 'strong' player. He's a thin kid from California.

Here's some off-ice info on him:

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=686214

 

[VoidCreature]

Just to give you guys an idea how often injured he is..

He played 33 games last year. If he can play at least 37 this year he'll qualify to as one of our two required exposed forwards.

It's a low risk move with a couple different ways it could pay off. Nothing to be upset about with this trade.

 

[NJDevs26]

Just watched the Shero interview about the acquisition. He was asked whether Beau was a top six player, Shero said "I think he can play top six, top nine, top seven". And I was like huh? Seven?

Then it hit me: expansion draft protection. If he doesn't work out but plays enough games, he could always fill part of that "leave 2 guys exposed" part of the deal.

Well...he'd have to play 37 games to qualify to meet that criteria. He's only hit that mark once in four years

But yeah there's a scenario where he becomes one of the seven protected guys regardless.

 

[OmNomNom]

beau should train w josefson aka ex mr. glass

 

[Devilsgrl35]

He's not a 'strong' player. He's a thin kid from California.

Here's some off-ice info on him:

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=686214

Thanks for both posts. We can only really hope for the best then.

 

[NJDevs26]

Beau isn't even that good when he is healthy. I do not understand the optimism about this trade.

I'm not exactly a huge fan of the player either...but it was a low-cost move and there weren't exactly a lot of options out there to substantially improve RW unless you basically give Okposo a blank check. There aren't many other trade options as long as Chia's being stubborn about getting 120% of value for his forwards. You could argue short-term re-signing Stemp would be better but I'm not convinced what we saw from Stemp last year is what we'd get going forward and Bennett does have some potential to get better.

 

[Brodeur]

The only thing I'm concerned about is the slotting of the RW's on the depth chart. This almost 100% shuts us out of acquiring any RW of consequence. Ray didn't trade for him to put him on the 4th line.

Palms
Bennett
DSP
??

Yeah, I had the same thought. I wasn't so concerned about the pick per se, but I hope this doesn't preclude Ray from looking for more help.

 

[NJDevs26]

The only thing I'm concerned about is the slotting of the RW's on the depth chart. This almost 100% shuts us out of acquiring any RW of consequence. Ray didn't trade for him to put him on the 4th line.

Palms
Bennett
DSP
??

Yeah, I had the same thought. I wasn't so concerned about the pick per se, but I hope this doesn't preclude Ray from looking for more help.

Agreed with both but it's not like there was much to be had in terms of trading for forwards at the draft unless you wanted to flip two 2's for Andrew Shaw or Lars Eller and the UFA pickings at RW fall off a cliff after Okposo (who's gonna get a fortune) and Eriksson (who's 30 and gonna want at least a 5-6 year deal). I'm not sure how much else available there is realistically.

 

[AfroThunder396]

The only thing I'm concerned about is the slotting of the RW's on the depth chart. This almost 100% shuts us out of acquiring any RW of consequence. Ray didn't trade for him to put him on the 4th line.

Palms
Bennett
DSP
??

Ideally we're deep enough where we roll 4 lines and DSP is the anchor on our 4th. Imagine a Kalinin/Pietila-Josefson-DSP 4th line, that would be better than what our 3rd line was last year.

Elias-Zacha-Bennett as the 3rd could work

 

[NJDevs26]

Shero on BB:

 

[NJDevils17]

Shero on BB:

Exactly the mindset I have. 3rd rounders are a risk anyway and Bennett has been good when he's played. This trade was worth it IMO especially with the McLeod trade.