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Originally Posted by Wild GM
The right shot left shot thing is not stupid. It is simply an important part of the decision. To just toss it out as "stupid" is naive.
Bennett has received ample opportunity. Let's not suddenly paint him as a victim when quite frankly he has NOT played well enough consistently.
That's on him.
Jeepers - folks REALLY have a hard time holding the players accountable. Far easier to just blame the coach.
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In the offseason folks harped that Bennett doesn't have the offensive output as say Leon Draisaitl due to quality of linemates. Bennett plays 95‰ of his shifts on the 3rd line with Jankowski and Hathaway/jagr/Brouwer, but now it's the 'received ample time' narrative.
Whatever, other orgs seem to find young talent positions to succeed and live thru the up's and downs of their development.
I guess here I have to go thru the up's and downs of a coach and gm seemingly learning on the job too. Good job Gulutzan, way to go on watching a crap pp for 40+ games before putting Hamilton and Giordano on the point. Proud of you.
Maybe by training camp he can look at the underlying pk stats and realize just throwing Stajan and Brouwer out there is also a dumb decision.