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Too bad that Benning's not signing him. However, I see it. He's 23. There's a lot of players of his mold already in the prospect pipeline here and he wasn't a huge standout in the NCAA compared to other players of his type. I wouldn't be shocked if his rights are thrown in as part of a bigger deal, could yield a slightly higher return from a team who is looking for defensive prospect depth. Columbus, Carolina, and Edmonton come to mind...

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I disagree on Benning point of view about McNally being behind Hutton and Subban. But McNally is 23 is i guess there is that. I wonder what team takes a flyer on him, i'm sure he will be looking for a one way deal with a NHL spot in the near future.

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I disagree on Benning point of view about McNally being behind Hutton and Subban. But McNally is 23 is i guess there is that. I wonder what team takes a flyer on him, i'm sure he will be looking for a one way deal with a NHL spot in the near future.

It's hard enough to get a two-way deal to a team.

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I guess Benning knows what he's doing...

Wasn't McNally one of our supposed franchise defensemen at some point? Now it's all on Hutton and Subban. I mean it's all on Hutton. No I mean what? These guys aren't franchise defensemen!

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Well it also gives us an idea of who Benning believes will be able to land a regular gig in Utica. Hutton and Subban seem to fill out Benning's Utica line up, in addition to Pedan and 2 vets, then I think it tells us who will be in Utica and who lands on the K-Wings.

Pedan - Huskins

Hutton - Biega

Andersson - Subban

Cederholm, McEneny, Sautner ??

Benning is right though, we have enough defensemen to develop.

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Not like I'm going to mourn the loss or anything, but I can't say I understand it either. Seems to be a character kid apart from the cheating scandal, and definitely is a player we're missing from our prospect pool style-wise.

Trade his rights?

For what? We don't pick in the 10th plus round anymore.

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What a bad decision...

We throw around contracts to long shots like Sautner, but can't even spare one for a 4th round pick who is exactly what we need in our system?

Sure we might not end up regreting this, but I don't understand not seeing what the kid has at least. Now the 2010 draft is officially a write off for us.

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Granted, we traded our top three picks away in the 2010 draft.

2010 wasn't a particularly strong draft anyway, so the Canucks likely didn't miss out on much. Perhaps a player like Bjugstad, Toffoli, Etem, or Coyle.

Oh...

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Granted, we traded our top three picks away in the 2010 draft.

2010 wasn't a particularly strong draft anyway, so the Canucks likely didn't miss out on much. Perhaps a player like Bjugstad, Toffoli, Etem, or Coyle.

Oh...

To be fair... we didn't have a shot at Bjugstad since he was drafted 19th overall, and our (traded) pick was the 25th overall.

However, I do agree that we missed out on Kuznetsov (right below Howden...), Etem, Coyle, and Toffoli - if you want to stretch it that we would take a projected 2nd rounder in the 1st. All of this is a moot point now...

Here's to hoping that Benning has a replacement college free agent on his radar as DeNiro mentioned...

I hope Benning has another college free agent prospect he's looking at, because we really don't have the depth to be passing on guys like McNally.

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