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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Sorry but is the thread not inherently based in hindsight?
Have the Flames held onto him too long?
Implicit with the question is hindsight, and his draft position, and his previous value, no? Otherwise I'm not sure how you even answer the question?
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Carry it down the path you see fit, but I feel I've put forward a well reasoned argument as to why the answer is "No.", without the crutch of hindsight.
The question you're focused in on is "have the Flames held on TOO long", and if your argument is we should have picked someone else...well, that doesn't answer the question at all either.
Your answer was yes we held on too long, and that we should have abandoned him last year - a year after he was buried with awful linemates while playing center. I think that's one heck of a way to stall/mess with a player's development, so abandoning him after that seems impulsive. What he gave us in December, again, at a young age, should show us what he's capable of and the team should help in getting that more often. I think the best way to do that is to get him a better linemate than the line destroying Troy Brouwer, who I should say is not outplaying Sam Bennett, which is a pretty damn subjective claim (on both sides).
Brouwer is awful, and hurts the team everywhere he goes. It's undebatable. I think with what we've seen of Bennett away from Brouwer is enough reason to be patient, especially when you look at Bennett's time as a winger.