It's actually very interesting how closesly Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett have tracked with each other at 5 on 5:
Bennett - 74 points (60 primary) in 3128.02 minutes
Reinhart - 78 points (58 primary) in 3279.31 minutes
What makes one guy a "50 point" forward and the other guy "done in the league in a few years?
One guy played immediately on his team's top PP unit with the likes of Jack Eichel, Ryan O'Reilly, Kyle Okposo, Evander Kane, and Rasmus Ristolainen, and has logged 92% more power play ice time in his career.
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Edit: you're talking Gultuzan's year one. He still played with Versteeg a lot on the second/third line. Not in a checking role but offensive opportunity. Until it was obvious he couldn't cut it.
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Strange recollection you have there. I seem to recall Brouwer finally being removed from Bennett's line, and Versteeg-Bennett-Chiasson being one of our best lines down the stretch, and probably our best line in the playoffs and our only line to produce at ES while, as Treliving himself pointed out following that year, matched up to the likes of Kesler and taking it right to them. Even though one of those players was Alex Chiasson, the same one on a PTO with the Oilers right now, not a player who belongs in a top nine role. The next year Chiasson was gone and Gulutzan reverted back to, first Brouwer, then Lazar, then after a very brief stint with Jagr, Garnet Hathaway. All, again, players who do not belong in a top nine role on any half-decent team and may not even be advantageous in a fourth line role. And in Year 2, Versteeg was also not the same player, as he was an offensive zone turnover machine.
Chiasson.
Brouwer.
Lazar.
Hathaway.
Sorry dude, these players being in the Flames in any offensive capacity is NOT on Sam Bennett.