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Originally Posted by ComixZone
This is so damn illogical.
1st year centre fills the 3rd line centre position on a playoff team Vs. a cast off from the worst team in the league.
...yeah, better trust Grigorenko and move Bennett over.
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It's not illogical at all if you think about it.
If you play a forward on the 3rd and 4th lines continuously, you end up developing a 3rd/4th liner. Grigorenko is a 3rd line center. Bennett's ceiling is much higher, but our top 2 center positions are spoken for, for the foreseeable future. Bennett is good on the wing and can arguably contribute more there than languishing behind Monahan, Backlund and possibly Jankowski if that goes well.
There are a disproportionate number of forwards drafted as centers and many eventually move to the wing. The math simply demands it. Bennett played on the wing in junior up until his draft year, and even after he became a full time center for the Fronts, when you watch the highlights, he generated a lot of his offense from driving up on the wing.