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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Whole team was bad but it's really telling that Petersen could make a big difference in 10 minutes of ice time while Bennett + janko were invisible
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I didn't think Bennett and Jankowski were invisible at all. If anything I noticed Bennett pretty much every time he hit the ice. Huge hit in the corner? Oh look it's those two guys again. They never got pinned in and while their forecheck didn't generate a lot of offense, it did up add energy and I thought was always followed up with a strong shift by the next line. I also thought they looked like the best penalty killing pair last night
I saw the comment earlier that Bennett had been "overcoached" and I totally agree GG over the past two years did but I didn't see that tonight. What it looks like to me is that Peters is going to rebuild Bennett by focusing on fundementals. He played like a guy who was told to go out there and hit, pressure, chase and get some shots on net. Don't do anything fancy, just focus one one shift at a time and give it your all; and that's what I saw out of him.
They may not have hit the score sheet, but they both had 3 shots a piece and Bennett had 4 hits to Jankowski's 3. Good basic hockey to build confidence on for under 10 minutes of ice-time.