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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Not that Bennett showed enough to earn a big buck long term deal the Flames have not done a heck of a lot to make him look good.
Draisatl gets McDavid or Lucic 8 x 8.5
Monahan gets Gaudreau. 7 x 6.375
Barkov gets Hurbedeau and Jagr 6 X 5.9
Schiefele gets Wheeler/Laine/Ehlers 8 x 6.25
Sam Reinhart gets Eichel. TBD
Bennett gets Chaisson/Brouwer/Versteeg
Put any one of the first 4 on the lines that Bennett has to play on and they would be playing on a bridge deal.
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This is exactly the problem. Can't fault a guy for looking around the league at all the young players playing in top 6 roles with heavy PP time and get frustrated because your team can't or won't offer that to you.
At no point this year was Bennett worse than October/November Monahan and yet he got demoted to the 3rd line and taken off the PP. The Flames have done a heck of a job restricting his earning potential with how they deployed him this season.
If his camp feels that he won't get an opportunity in the top 6 (and he won't unless he switches to RW, someone else does, or Backlund is moved) then I don't see him wanting to be here just to play bottom 6 minutes. If he was on Arizona or Vancouver he would have been their 1/2c this year and probably put up around 50 points. That's a big difference in pay and it's because of factors outside of his control.