Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
Playing center he was heading that way.
|
Playing centre with Troy Brouwer, and other terrible wingers, sure you can say “he was headed that way” but that’s entirely ignoring circumstance, and placing the blame on a young, highly skilled player. That’s what bad organizations do, and that’s what impatient fans do.
The whole “he’s a bad centre” is rubbish in my eyes, because while he’s played centre he has been saddled with awful players.
Bennett’s game started to turn around once he got to play with Jagr, and then really took off once he got to play with Jankowski.
Asking a 20/21 year old to carry a line by himself as a centre, while having to carry bad players, was a failure on the organization’s side, not Bennett’s.