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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
To me the benefit of being around the team and practicing with them is greater than the benefit of lighting up scrubby dub dubs in the A.
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The AHL is the second best hockey league in North America. It's head and shoulders above the OHL, and Flames management have made it clear that it's their prefered place to develop players. There's no reason to assume Bennett would waltz into the AHL and light it up. And this notion that just being around NHL players and practicing with them is more valuable to a young player than actually playing professional hockey games is getting ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
For going down to Kingston and, instead of pouting like some players, busting his ass and proving - yet again - that he is a special player that deserves a chance.
It's not a 'special' reward - not a single person used a word anything like that - it is an opportunity that he has earned by doing everything asked of him all year.
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I assume all of our prospects have done everything asked of them all year. The only one who pouted is Baertschi, and he's gone now. Sounds like "doing everything asked of him" is what Flames management expect from all prospects. If the Flames want to bring in Bennett because he's the most NHL ready prospect and they feel he will help the NHL team in the short-term without interfering with his long-term development, then fine. But management doesn't owe him anything that they don't owe Poirier, Wotherspoon, Arnold, or Klimchuk.