Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Taylor Hall was a front line player in Edmonton who became a better front line player in NJ
Sam simply hasn’t produced. I’m surprised at the sentiment that anyone other than Sam is largely accountable for that
He has been a part of one of the shallowest forward groups, until this year, and still couldn’t muscle his way up the line up
That’s on him
|
Gulutzan didn’t change his lines.
Bennett got his chance on the top line for 2 games, produced multiple points in one of them, then got demoted when Stewart got picked up on waivers...because reasons!
Brodie was complete garbage for 2 years because Gulutzan didn’t change his pairings.
Sorry, but no one was going to produce with the linemates Bennett had. The way Bennett was set-up in years 2 and 3 is not how you set young players up for any level of success. Hanging it entirely on him his ridiculous. The Flames hired a coach who couldn’t coach. Lineups weren’t working and the team wasn’t winning, and yet the lines were static. That’s just idiotic coaching. He’s no longer a head coach in this league, and I think we could argue he’s not a coach in the NHL any more.
Sometimes coaches are that bad.
I’m not excusing Bennett entirely, he struggled with his circumstances and couldn’t rise above them. Good organizations simply don’t put young players in the position the Flames put Bennett in. The last two years the Flames organization failed the players just as much if not more than the players failed the organization.