Southpop45 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/hockey/opinion/2014/04/30-thoughts-ryan-getzlaf-for-mvp.html 15. With all of the discussion about Vancouver needing 21- to 25-year-old impact players, I think they seriously considered an offer sheet for Jamie Benn in the summer of 2012. Obviously, the owners don't have much use for one another, but bringing home a local boy (and a very good one) would've been a major coup. I can't confirm it, but I believe a one-year, $7.5-million US offer was the ballpark, which meant Dallas would've had to qualify him at that number for three more years, similar to what Calgary did to Colorado with Ryan O'Reilly 16. Why didn't it happen? Probably two reasons. First, Shea Weber's sheet was matched. And if that one didn't work, what would? Second, the Canucks were in a tight cap situation going into the lockout. It was hard to predict the outcome, and if they were over the cap, that would've created even more trouble. Anyway, fun to think about. *Typo in the title sorry was trying to get it on here fast* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonMexico Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Nice idea but this is some thinking out loud that should have never made it to print. It's water under the bridge now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterHorvatBure Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Woulda Coulda Shoulda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herberts Vasiljevs Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 My favourite NHL player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberz21 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Woiuld that have cost us 4 x 1st rounder?Whats the highest threshold again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Would have loved to get him, but it was unlikely I think. Maybe at that point there was a small chance since the Stars didn't have the financial backing at the same level they do now, but I still think they would have matched anything we could reasonably offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I love Jamie Benn - who wouldn't love to have Jamie Benn - but there are some fundamental problems with such offer sheets - not the least of which is the utter hypocrisy at the heart of that style of management and contract trending in the face of lockout politics. Offering a 22 year old with two 56 and 63 point seasons in the NHL 7.5 million dollars coming off his ELC deal at less than a million? Really bad optics to that imo. His 5 year 26 million deal may be a relative bargain for Dallas, but the 1 year 7.5 offersheet to pry him out... maybe not the best strategic or political option. The other problem - that kind of offersheet would have cost the Canucks two 1sts, a 2nd and a 3rd. How would folks feel about having given up Shinkaruk, Cassels, another 2nd, and this year's 6 or 7th overall pick for what could have potentially been one year of Jamie Benn and then the uncertainty of re-signing a young player who had the bar set at 7.5 million coming off his ELC? Sounds like a lot of pipe dreaming in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumquats Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 It's Been Awhile... Great song.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeoftheMonth Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 He wouldn't have signed anyways. I know his family quite well and he doesn't really want to play in a fishbowl. Quite happy playing in a place where he can walk down the street without anyone having a clue who he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterHorvatBure Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Woiuld that have cost us 4 x 1st rounder?Whats the highest threshold again? 1st, 2nd, 3rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 *Typo in the title sorry was trying to get it on here fast* Does it matter that much to be first to a topic no one else would likely even post? It's not hard to edit the title.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losing With Pride Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Sedin Sedin Benn. YAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Been? Sorry, couldn't resist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan90 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Should've done it. Having him would have been so amazing and it is worth the picks giving up at that time because we were top in the league back in those years, meaning drafting 25-30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canorcas Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 This team just failed to qualify for the playoffs. Everyone will take a chance to say they "should have" gone through with the offer sheet because hindsight is 20/20. I'm okay with the fact they didn't. The Jamie Benn we saw in 2013-2014 was dominant. But there was no way to predict he'd ever get to that level back in 2012. Fans would have been incensed if we gambled the future like that. There's no telling how our prospects will turn out but at least there's a small crop of them to invest in. And of course, Shea Weber. Nobody thought the Predators would match. But it created a precedent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 So what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 They would have matched anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Wouldn't have mattered. Stars would've match in a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noseforthenet Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 So...what you are saying is if MG traded Lu when he was supposed to, we may have had Schneider and Jamie Benn on this team?! Well that's just great.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becee1 Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Jamie Benn? You mean the best natural goal scorer who ever played for the Kelowna Rockets? The guy who grew up within shouting distance of Vancouver, but nobody seemed to notice? The guy who went 129th in the 2007 draft, while Vancouver drafted Patrick White at 25th and Taylor Ellington at 33rd? Until we get some scouts who recognize talent, we will continue to hover in mediocrity. I cringe every time i see the lists of players we've passed by in order to choose guys who just never panned out. Very sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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