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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
I've been pretty disappointed with Bennett this year, but I think I'm guilty of impatience.
I find this website fun to compare players;
http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/seaso...ers-stats.html
Sorry, not a fancy stat comparison  ......There's a few comparables to Bennett in today's top 20 scorers. Obviously a lot of elites who performed at a high end right from the start, but guys like Bailey, Wheeler, Schenn had similar stats when they were Bennett's age. I'm still disappointed in Bennett's production to date, but I think there's still reason to hope he'll reach the potential we're all waiting for him to reach. |
Good post.
The thing with Sam as well right now - who else would we play at his position?
None of the other young players have proven to be ready. So while Sam is inconsistent, he’s our best option right now - and if your alternative is trading Sam for an older more proven player, then you deal with the consequences of that trade for years to come.
He’s our 3rd line LW. Look around the league at 3rd line LW’ers and adjust your expectations. The best asset management course right now is to stay the course. He’s also our leading scorer from our bottom 6 forwards, so everyone focusing in on his failures seem to be ignoring the fact that he’s the best player we have in that group. The GM’s job should be about improving the bottom 6 by adding good players, not by subtracting the best in that group.
Patience is a virtue. As Bingo showed earlier, and as AC has mentioned, Bennett is doing a lot of good things that aren’t registering on the board for the team (but hopefully will at some point), and Bennett was our best forward in 1 of the 4 months so far this season. There’s reasons to show patience and not condemn him after every mistake.
Look at Lazar’s progress this year, and how many people around here wanted him fired into the sun months ago.