Value of: Sam Bennett

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Nemec plus 2026 1st and 2025 2nd for Bennett. Who says no?

Probably Florida

 

[Captain97]

I wonder what his next contract will look like. He is incredibly okay in the regular season but is a playoff monster.

 

[Ryuji Yamazaki]

Zero chance he’s traded

 

[McSuper]

Edmonton 2026 first with 50% retained

 

[Laus723]

Nemec plus 2026 1st and 2025 2nd for Bennett. Who says no?

Just don't like Benny, eh? Too rough for ya?

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Edmonton 2026 first with 50% retained

...for a signed jersey, maybe...

 

[Sticksandsun]

Edmonton 2026 first with 50% retained

Why the hell would Benny wanna go to Edmonton?

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Why the hell would Benny wanna go to Edmonton?

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...revenge on Calgary??...

 

[dgibb10]

Nemec plus 2026 1st and 2025 2nd for Bennett. Who says no?

New Jersey lmao

I'd offer up Nemec+ for an extended Bennett

Shocker that you'd do that.

Also "extended" on a rental UFA isn't a real thing that magically increases value 10 fold.

 

[blankall]

8 million for Bennett is insane and I love Bennett for the player he is and what he brings to the table but 8mill would be an albatross.

Bennett is getting a monster of a contract this off season. He's also turning 29 and is already injury prone. IMO whoever signs him to that 7-8 year contract will regret it, and I can't see it being for less than $8 million per year.

It might make sense for Florida to let Bennett walk in the off season, but it makes zero sense to trade him. Bennett is a playoff monster and the Panthers are in the middle of a window with a team that won the cup last year and went to the finals the year before.

 

[blankall]

In no way is Bennet going to come close to Reinhart's $8.6 million cap hit.
Bennett's max for Zito would be 7 years x $6.5 to 7 million per in Florida.

Bennett has his cup. He spends summers in Toronto, so he's not taking a discount to stay in the city of Miami. The market for Bennett will be huge, and many teams will have the cap space to bid, with the cap going up. Every team that gets knocked out of the playoffs will want that physical playoff performer with intangibles.

Bennett is injury prone, and he knows it. He'll be looking for his retirement contract, and it's going to be well north of $7 million.

Players like Bennett always cash in big in free agency, and the contracts always end up looking horrible almost immediately. Bennett seems like the prototypical type of player for that kind of contract. He's bound to slow down physically as he gets older, and his hockey IQ isn't exceptional.

 

[Sticksandsun]

Bennett has his cup. He spends summers in Toronto, so he's not taking a discount to stay in the city of Miami. The market for Bennett will be huge, and many teams will have the cap space to bid, with the cap going up. Every team that gets knocked out of the playoffs will want that physical playoff performer with intangibles.

Bennett is injury prone, and he knows it. He'll be looking for his retirement contract, and it's going to be well north of $7 million.

Players like Bennett always cash in big in free agency, and the contracts always end up looking horrible almost immediately. Bennett seems like the prototypical type of player for that kind of contract. He's bound to slow down physically as he gets older, and his hockey IQ isn't exceptional.

I'll bookmark it and we can discuss "well north of $7 million" in July.
Is that meaning $8.5 million in your opinion?

 

[derkejohnlee]

His value will be between the Chandler Stephenson contract and Elias Lindholm contract. 6.25M to 7.75M per year. I'm going to guess it comes out to be 7.5M x 7

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

I'd offer up Nemec+ for an extended Bennett

Why the hell would you do that when you can just offer him a contract in the offseason?

 

[Laus723]

Bennett has his cup. He spends summers in Toronto, so he's not taking a discount to stay in the city of Miami. The market for Bennett will be huge, and many teams will have the cap space to bid, with the cap going up. Every team that gets knocked out of the playoffs will want that physical playoff performer with intangibles.

Bennett is injury prone, and he knows it. He'll be looking for his retirement contract, and it's going to be well north of $7 million.

Players like Bennett always cash in big in free agency, and the contracts always end up looking horrible almost immediately. Bennett seems like the prototypical type of player for that kind of contract. He's bound to slow down physically as he gets older, and his hockey IQ isn't exceptional.

He can't stay in Miami, mostly cause he doesn't live there. Neither does the team, everyone's about 45 to an hour north. So, we're good.

Benny also knows what it's like to play on a shitty team and not be used correctly. Florida's one wonders for Bennett and he loves it here. We'll see. But, he doesn't live in Miami. Definitely not in the city.

 

[Michoulicious]

He'll get 7 * 7 as a UFA.

 

[blankall]

He can't stay in Miami, mostly cause he doesn't live there. Neither does the team, everyone's about 45 to an hour north. So, we're good.

Benny also knows what it's like to play on a shitty team and not be used correctly. Florida's one wonders for Bennett and he loves it here. We'll see. But, he doesn't live in Miami. Definitely not in the city.

One nobody cares whether I called a city in the Miami metro area Miami or not. Two, I think Bennett would stay with the Panthers, just that it will cost a lot and the Panthers may decide not to do it.

People are going to be pretty blown away, generally, when they see the cost of highly sought after free agents in the next few years.

 

[jfhabs]

Bennett is getting a monster of a contract this off season. He's also turning 29 and is already injury prone. IMO whoever signs him to that 7-8 year contract will regret it, and I can't see it being for less than $8 million per year.

It might make sense for Florida to let Bennett walk in the off season, but it makes zero sense to trade him. Bennett is a playoff monster and the Panthers are in the middle of a window with a team that won the cup last year and went to the finals the year before.

Yeah I'm with you on that. Would love him on my team, but that contract will most likely be a disaster. For a win now team near the end of their window, maybe. Like, I could see Tampa or Vegas going for him.

 

[T REX]

I'd pay him 7.5M x 8 years or maybe even 8M x 8 just because the cap is going up, other teams would have a hard time matching that. He isn't worth it in the regular season but is in the playoffs.

He'll get more in FA...and you traded Hubie for that same reason...not paying a 30 year old that money into his mid 30's.
I respect his play in the playoffs. He reminds me of how the Lightning played before the cap dismantled their team.

 

[Laus723]

One nobody cares whether I called a city in the Miami metro area Miami or not. Two, I think Bennett would stay with the Panthers, just that it will cost a lot and the Panthers may decide not to do it.

People are going to be pretty blown away, generally, when they see the cost of highly sought after free agents in the next few years.

As a native, I care. Miami is well south of us and I sure af don’t identify as being from Miami. Further, many people think the Panthers still play in Miami and don’t realize that they don’t. No one I know calls this Miami metropolitan, it’s South Florida.I avoid the city like the plague.

That aside, sure. They may decide to move on, but he’s a prime part of the Panthers’ identity and Zito recognizes that. Further, he ain’t making more than Barkov, Tkachuk or Reino. He’ll likely come in just north of Verhaeghe.

I agree.

He'll get more in FA...and you traded Hubie for that same reason...not paying a 30 year old that money into his mid 30's.
I respect his play in the playoffs. He reminds me of how the Lightning played before the cap dismantled their team.

No, that’s only part of why we traded Huby. If Huby had the playoff prowess Benny does, or if he just showed up more and didn’t go to strip clubs, he may still be here. But, Chucky was and that’s the biggest reason we moved Huby.