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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Backlund was the worst Flame by a long shot tonight so while maybe Bennett deserves a night in the press box he's not the reason they lost this game.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The fact that this team is depending overly on a 21 and 23 year old forward for secondary offense just goes to show how thin this team is at forward. What other playoff contending team requires this much from players this young?
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Just bizarre. Bennett 'deserves a night in the press box' but the guy who had 7 shots was worse?
Bennett is absolutely the reason they lost the game. He was sitting in the penalty box when the game winning goal was scored. On an
offensive zone holding penalty.
Lots of teams have 21 year olds as key depth players. Bennett is 21st in scoring from his draft year right now, he's 20th in scoring in ppg from the first round of his draft class this year, the only ones producing less are defenders, out of the league, or canucks. That third line is a disaster right now.
They aren't thin up front in spite of Bennett, they are thin up front in part
because of Bennett.
I'm not dour, that was a great game, Lundqvist and Smith were both amazing, but let's' call a spade a spade here. Bennett cost the flames at least one point in my opinion, and I think that was a very winnable game for the Flames.