While Bennett's penalties are annoying as a team to have to kill, getting called for being over aggressive is way better than the type of penalties Tkachuk will get being a douchy pest, but some fans here get so excited for the latter. If the whole team started playing more like Sam the refs wouldn't be able to call all of it and we'd be a much harder team to play against. Not to mention perfectly suited to the playoffs. In the coming years I look forward to McDavid vs Bennett matchups where Sams over aggressive play neutralizes Connors speed & confidence. We (and most other teams) have very little options to successfully shut McJesus down (currently Backlund is still probably our best matchup option).
Sorry about the long winded post, but I'll take Bennetts beast mode he's trying to establish consistently because he'll get smarter and we're better off with that edge to his game.
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