Lolllll I can't believe these supposed fans and trolls that are on this forum.
Benning has been on the job less than 2 months, and has already cleared out a locker room cancer, with one team to deal with and managed to get a pretty darn good return. Also cleared up a tonne of cap space with the the Booth dump and the Garrison trade. Plus we haven't even made it to the free agency deadline.
Not only that, he made the best offer to Florida for that number 1 that he was willing to give. Who knows what Florida wanted as far as players go..had it been a good prospect like Horvat or say Tanev, CDC would be in an uproar. You can't please everybody all the time.
I for one am jacked on Virtanen. Someone mentioned he posted the best overall skills in evaluation. He also is a local kid who will give this team everything he has. Sounds like a pretty darn good pickup to me.
Also saw someone posting about his lack of vision due to his number of assists. Which to me says he's a pure goal scorer...do we have any of those in this team? There isn't a lot of players that can do it all, consistently. If he does turn out to be that type of player, so what. Centre him with the playmaking type. God knows we have a lot of guys that can pass but not finish. Looked up Mike Bossy's career stats, and he always scored more goals then assists. Not comparing the two, but pure goal scorers are sure fun to watch.
All in all, I feel like it was a pretty darn exciting day yesterday. Good job TL & JB. Land us a nice fish in free agency and I would say this summer has been a successful one.