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Originally Posted by ComixZone
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.
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Anybody, because it doesn't matter since Sam has been doing less than nothing of late. Try Lazar there since he as at least one elite skill that can be useful for offense, and hopefully he doesn't take the lazy penalty which actually would make that line better than the last 3 weeks.
I dont trade the kid at this point, but there is certainly a case to be made for him to hit the press box for a couple games. Put whomever in his spot and see what happens. If it works, great. If it doesn't, then who cares since you aren't losing anything to begin with and are just at status quo.
And that last paragraph...what progress has Lazar made at all? He has been just as useful as last year...that is to say, not very.