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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Interesting analysis - thanks!
Leads me to wonder if Reinhart and Draisaitl's strong play without impact players (~51% CF%) led to them being moved up to play with better players? Unlike those two, Bennett has been quite poor when he doesn't have at least one impact player on his line (46% CF%)...so that may be why he hasn't made the similar jump up the line combos yet.
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I think that's part of it.
The bias in me thinks the Flames drive to "do it right" and develop a center is a big impact issue as well.