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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Come on, now. In ~2000 Rico Fata was in his third year where he had dressed for the Flames and had all of 1 assist.
Bennett as a rookie had 18 goals and 36 points, and has had 2 disappointing seasons since.
2 seasons on a third line in the blender, with the coach that broke Brodie, took Gio from 55-60 points to below 40, and turned a perpetual 20 goal guy Brouwer in to a guy being discussed by fans as a buyout candidate.
Rico Fata to Pavel Bure is more like Sam Bennett to Gretzky
But kudos to the poster for trying to respond seriously
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you can't blame the coach for any of that. partly, perhaps because of his system, but not the majority of the blame.
he may be a factor in brodie, but only one of many. and GG did nothing to Brouwer. he did that to himself.
for Gio, perhaps his point totals went down as he was deferring to Hamilton on offense, and also having to focus on his defense to cover for Hamilton, too.
cop out to blame the coach for Bennett's struggles.