biturbo19
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- Jul 13, 2010
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This is pretty much how i see this proposal. It just doesn't make any sense at all for Seattle. Beniers has had disappointing production since his one big year out of the gates, but he's developing into a really solid all around player and i have little doubt that if you stapled Kaprizov to his wing to drive play offensively, he'd put up more substantial numbers than he has with an assorted sea of mediocre revolving door wingers. I'd also argue that Beniers appears to have maybe found something in the way of chemistry with Kakko. The two of them looked pretty good to me at times once they were put together. That duo has the makings of a terrific two-way 2nd Line for a very long time to come.
I don't think it's a terribly uncommon concern for teams to be worried about Rossi as an arbitration eligible 60Pt Kaprizov Center. We've seen other guys like Hartman have wildly unsustainable "career years" centering him. If you end up paying full value for that 60pts on another team and he turns back into a smallish, slowish, defensively not great, weak on faceoffs sort of ~40pt "tweener"...you're going to have a much worse contract on your hands than the one Beniers is underperforming production-wise. Because you're not even going to have that solid 2nd line two-way sort of guy with better size and speed.
So if there were anything to entice Seattle to make this deal at all, it'd have to be Minnesota tossing in some not insubstantial additional high end asset(s). Even then, i'm not sure the gamble really makes any sense. But it certainly wouldn't be a straight across swap.
