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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Under Sutter he’s got 8 points in 15 games. He was our best player in the playoffs last year...there’s some reasons right there.
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and i have 6 seasons worth of reasons that crushes small spurts of being good and suggests he is what he is.
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1 year at his qualifying number to keep the asset? I’m fine with that. What’s the alternative? Signing Josh Leivo again? I’m not confident in Treliving’s free agent work to actually improve the team - why would we believe Treliving could reasonable improve upon Bennett? He hasn’t shown this ability to date.
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So your argument to keep him and overpay is because he
might not get improved upon next year?
If you qualify him for 1 year at an inflated salary...he walks as UFA after next year. Or trade him now, get something for him, and if he wants to return next year give him a 2 year deal at half of what he is making now after the season...the only other thing is the acquiring team QO's him at the 2.5 which is fine as well, just build in a condition into the trade.
It would be asinine to bring him back at his current level and he has never done anything to earn it.
Remember when the argument was "yeah but he is playoff beast mode Bennett, you have to keep him" and i argued then as i do now...you need guys that actually get you to the playoffs before they can help you in the playoffs. Of course it was response after response of mocking for that position on Bennett...but yet? Here we are.
Also the cap space earned by not going QO doesnt mean it has to be spent on a free agent. Right now the single most valuable asset in making deals in the NHL is the ability to take on more money than is moving out. It is not hard to improve a team when in that situation and why I believe Seattle will be good not right away, but within a couple years. They can turn what will surely be the most cap space in the league into all kinds of players that will help in a year or two.
Unless this team was going scorched earth which is not happening, then they need to capitalize on every asset they can right now to position themselves moving forward. Bennett is a minor asset but still one all the same.