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Originally Posted by Vinny01
This is laughable in my opinion. You talk like the whole forward group is laying amazing and no one deserves to sit. Colborne has been taking numerous bad penalties and his offense has dried up. Raymond is a complete waste of $3M cap space with a measly 21pts on the year and invisible most nights. Granlund has not looked that great over the past few games. Anyone on that line could sit ahead of Bennett.
This ridiculous reach you have about pissing off the locker room by gifting a spot to Sam is a bunk theory. Players on that roster know that this was the top rated skater by Central Scouting. They know he is the top prospect and a big part of the future.
The current third line is a mess and adding Bennett to that line and likely second PP unit is a risk worth taking.
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It's laughable to me that you think any of the players give a crap about where Bennett was rated by central scouting. Lots of busts and lots of guys like Jooris and Gio that have made it that throw that all out the window. Making the NHL is hard, Bennett hasn't proven he even deserves to be in the league yet because he hasn't played a game.
You are seriously giving the current Flames players far too much credit in regards to how they are going to take a rookie with no experience coming in to play in the most exciting games of the year that they've worked so hard to make the most exciting games of the year. This is a results oriented business, and if the results come from putting Bennett in, no one will question it, if they don't, guys are going to wonder why the Flames gambled a roster spot on an unproven rookie when we had a bunch of healthy bodies available who were "good enough" to get a team that was picked to finish dead last in the league to a spot where they were in the playoffs before inserting the rookie.