[bigrangy]

Draisaitl has impressed me in international competition, he shows skill in ways that Bennett just hasn't so far.

However, the situations they find themselves in when playing in the NHL couldn't be more disparate. Draisaitl is attached at the hip to the 3rd or 4th best player in the world and Bennett is forced to carry several players that barely belong in the top 500.

Draisaitl's lack of success away from McDavid isn't anything to be terribly worried about, but when you get ready to pay a guy 7 million dollars it would be nice to know that he can succeed on his own, and judging by the numbers, he doesn't exactly do that.

Bennett, on the other hand, is not being put in a position to succeed. Thanks to the composition of the Flames' forwards, the right position for Bennett's development is not the right position to put him for the Flames to win games. This needs to be fixed. He is the best prospect this team has drafted during the rebuild and they're using him as a checking 3rd liner. It's unforgivable and I hope that his long term development isn't already ruined because of it.