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Originally Posted by jonkaupp
The problem with the team is a lack of a good second scoring line, and a lot of that has to do with the failures of Bennett. That would fix the scoring depth. If he had been as advertised we’d have two great scoring pairs in Gaudreau/Monahan and Tkachuk/Bennett. Add what ever RW in there, Wouldn’t need to be great ones with those pairs, Ferland is good enough for one line and maybe you would have made a trade for another.. If we had that good second scoring line then Backlund/Frolik go down as your third scoring line, elite checking line. That would be a contending forward group. When did Bennett and Janko ‘figure it out’? They didn’t. Bennett was bad all year except for one month. Janko has glimpses but still has a ways to go. Bennett not living up to his draft position, at least so far, is the biggest reason this team hasn’t taken the next step. I think the coaches bear a lot of that blame, at least I hope so otherwise this is a very hard problem to solve.
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I don't disagree that having Bennett perform like a true top 6 player would help the team.
I don't think he is the only issue though. The forward group as a whole is just going to have to be a lot better for the Flames to compete. Bennett is one of about 4-5 problems.