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Imagine Jets fans making this kind of panic about 20 year old Scheifele's IQ / linemate usage.

Let's be real, Bennett has one thing going against him and that is the fact that he shoots left, just like Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Backlund, Monahan. He doesn't have a power play niche like those four (though presumably he should replace Backlund's niche in the future.)

He is still one of the most minute for minute productive 5-on-5 players on the Calgary Flames (third-best, behind only Versteeg and Tkachuk) . He is also a centre who will only get better at draws and board play and transitional reads and shot generation and defensive coverage. And he is probably already our second best PKer after Backlund.

Comparing him based on raw points to offensive wingers like Ehlers, Pastrnak, and Nylander is just wrong. Only guy drafted after him that is actually playing centre is Larkin and even then Bennett has won more draws than Larkin has taken and is doubling him up in EV assists.

Maybe OP should make Alexander Wennberg VS Sean Monahan thread.

The only way you could get me to worry about Bennett is if the Flames put him back on Matt Stajan's LW, which was always a terrible move on so many levels.