Teams need to move from disappointment as to who a player could have been and quickly to what they have now.
Sam Bennett is 21. He has puck skills, can skate and a heaping load of jam. That's a valuable commodity in the NHL. He needs to smooth out the edges of his game so he's more effective but his floor is considerably greater that what they'd fetch in a trade.
Make him into one of the league's best 3rd line players if you have to, but don't dump him because you're disappointed that he may not turn out to be an elite player.
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