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Originally Posted by ComixZone
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.
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I never said it wasn't the org's fault. I'm well aware of the circumstances also. Continuing to force it with him at center was dumb, and I was one of the posters who wanted him tried at wing for even a game or two. He hasn't looked back since.
Player deployment was going to cause Bennett to bust, not Bennett's skill level.
Better?