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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
This is all so reminiscent of the debates on here about backlund about 5 years ago...
He’s 21 years old
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I’m sorry, but it’s becoming extremely apparent that Bennett is a bust. He has the hockey IQ of a potato. Toe drags don’t work against professional hockey players and he still Can’t seem to grasp that 4 years in to his NHL career. He can’t physically dominate his opponent like he could in junior, and as a result he is not capable of producing offence because he can’t read the game.
I will fully admit I was happier than a pig in #### when we drafted Bennett, but I’m not a professional scout. It scares me that our scouting staff seems to have completely missed out on his level of hockey IQ.
Bennett busting is one of the key reasons we are where we currently
Are. Monahan is a good player, but he’s a second line Center on a contending team. The Flames thought they were getting their top line Center in Bennett which moves everyone else down improving scoring depth. Instead they got a third line winger who hasn’t improved in 3 seasons.
This “he’s only 21” BS has got to stop. Professional sorts is a young man’s game. If you haven’t accomplished a damn thing in 4 seasons, it’s not very likely all of a sudden something is going to clicks. Bennett’s excuses ran out last year. There’s nothing in his game that would suggest he’s ever going to break out at this point.