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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Bennett - ES 2nd liner who hasn't produced on the power play or actually played with 2nd liners at ES. You can call him a 3rd liner for argument's sake but there is no question he is top 9 on any team in the league.
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I question that.
Boston?
Marchand, Pastarnak, Bergeron, Krejci, Nash, other Nash/Spooner, Backes, Heinen, DeBrusk.
That's 10 players on that team alone who Bennett wouldn't displace in the top 9.
Kucherov, Stamkos, Point, Gourde, Killorn, Johnson, Namestnikov, Kunitz, Palat, Callahan, Miller. Callahn's struggled, but the other 10 were superior to Bennett this year.
Did he out play Connolly or Vrana from Washington? Because he certainly didn't outplay Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Backstrom, Oshie, Eller, Burakovsky, Wilson.
Pavelski, Couture, Hertl, Labanc, Kane, Tierney, Boedker, Thornton, Donskoi, Meier.
Wheeler, Laine, Scheifele, Ehlers, Connor, Little, Perreault, Statsny, and Lowry outperformed him. Roslovic was more productive in his short sample size, Armia and Copp outproduced him on the fourth line.