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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Except Bennett did get PP time in year 2 and actually saw an increase in PP time in year 3. All people did last season was rip Troy Brouwer for being on the PP and rightfully so I might add, but he actually out scored Bennett on the PP despite playing less PP time! I get it, Brouwer was what he was and Bennett is a young player with potential, but at some point you have to call a spade a spade. He’s had opportunities, albeit not as much as Monahan, but Sam Bennett hasn’t seized on them like a Sean Monahan or even a Micheal Ferland.
The organization does not have it out for Sam Bennett, they want him to succeed. They dafted him to be a driver of play, so the organization gave him that chance to drive his own line playing against weaker competition and it didn’t turn out well enough. So people blamed his linemates and the coach, but if he played his way up the line up like Ferland was able to do with just as bad of linemates, then wouldn’t that have happened already over the course of the last 3+ years?
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I for one don't really have a problem with what the Flames have done with Bennett.
He hasn't gotten it done and that's on him.
But I do think there are things in his game that are emerging that may prove out to be worth the patience. If that's the case the Flames have another young contributing forward on the way and that's the best for everyone.
But at some point the production has to come to, as Flash pointed out goals and assists.
It may never come, or ... if the underlying numbers point to a direction, he may have found his overall game quietly with the production now to come.