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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I wish people would stop using Backlund as some sort of success story. He's about to turn 28 in couple of months and he's having his career year, just now. Has never hit 50 points before. If all teams persisted with all players this long then most of them would eventually turn into something. He's been lucky the Flames didn't discard him with his injury issues, inconsistencies etc. He has been given a lot of time to get to where he's at today.
By all means, if folks want to wait on Bennett to have a career year when he's in his late 20s and use him as another template then all the power to them.
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I agree it's annoying when people point to a Backlund or Giordano to suggest people have no right to worry about a player's development. It's equally frustrating when people point to a Draisaitl or Tkachuk trying to prove that a player like Bennett is developing relatively slower. These are all just cherry-picked examples that are outliers to the norm.