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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
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Is it all on him or is at least some of it on the horrendous coach that pissed away the last 2 years of hockey in this town?
Let’s see where Bennett (and Brodie for that matter) are at the end of the year. I think Gulutzan forcing Bennett to Centre in his second year eroded the confidence he had built up but was too stubborn to change things. The same can be said by forcing Brodie to play the left side when he has said several times that he prefers the right side but we had to watch 2 full seasons of him being terrible thanks to the last coach we had on the team.
Players own a large portion of the accountability but let’s not forget who coached this team the past 2 years and how both players performed under Hartley was completely different