I seem to recall another young player, that, at the age of 21, started off the season looking out-of-place when he didn't have a point in his first 5 games. He got bumped down the depth chart and even healthy scratched for a game, and there was a lot of talk that we should send him to the AHL because he just wasn't ready. And all that as a winger, too.
Then he scored 203 points in his next 225 games and signed a $6.75M contract as our best offensive player.
Bennett, right now, is about a month older than Gaudreau was when he started his rookie season.
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