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Originally Posted by Bingo
Everyone is disappointed that Sam Bennett isn't pushing Sean Monahan for the rights to anchor the top line as a center... to me that was the expected result to be honest.
It's likely not going to happen.
Can he get to a second line winger level? I think the jury is still out on that one.
- His goals/60 was up from the previous season
- His points/60 was up from the previous season
- Shot attempts/60 were up significantly
- Scoring chances/60 were up significantly
But
- his shooting percentage was off (below 4th liner levels)
- his on ice shooting percentage tanked
Now add in a better quality group of forwards and a likely boost in skill to play with him with a player that seemed to at least be turning a corner, and perhaps could have used a bounce or two and maybe just maybe he's heading back to the 40 point level instead of 25
40 points got you 145th place in forward scoring last year ... 31 teams says that's player 4.5 on the average team.
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His shooting percentage last year was miles off his career percentage, and this combined with his offensive zone penalties illustrates how he was trying to do everything on his line, without any significant support from linemates (shooting from anywhere, holding on to the puck too long because nobody is open in the zone to pass to). There is no reason to expect that someone of Bennett's age should be falling off a cliff. A better balance of equally skilled linemates and a regression to the mean for bad luck (goalposts etc) will hopefully result in Bennett being a 40-50 point scorer this season, which would put him in 2nd-3rd line territory, depending on the depth of the team in question.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Nah that's not at all what I said. Stop reading in bs to posts. I would package one (whichever the other team prefers as I highly doubt either will amount to anything worthwhile) with Brodie and upgrade our top RD position, which I now think is extremely weak. Brodie has been brutal for the last two seasons and I think trusting him to magically turn around might be Trelivings biggest and last mistake with our team.
I would look at Tampa, minny, or dare I say ottawa
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There is no reason to believe that Brodie and Gio will not be as good as they were under Hartley, unless Gio starts to lose a step. In any case, at his age, Brodie should still be as good on the right side as he was before. He was just never as good on the left side, and the deterioration of his performance perfectly correlates with being separated from Gio and being put on the left side.