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Originally Posted by transplant99
OK then.....Bennetts great cause......fancy stats.
Forget about actual production for over 3 years now.....he is generating chances and has only been "unlucky" to not get more.
Again, at some point that just doesn't add up and the narrative simply is not what people suggest.
Does he have value as a player? Of course he does, but it is not unfair to suggest he needs to be better....regardless of any made up/arbitrary stats. He has sucked way more often than he has been good the last 2+ years, even acknowledging his all around game has been much better this 17 game segment thus far.
He will be an RFA with arb. rights at seasons end....he should surely get a raise if he is all that good right?
Do you think that happens?
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Well you can be as pissy as you want about it, you're not going to sway the facts.
He's an unproductive player.
He's a player that creates a lot of chances.
NHL teams don't have 11 or 12 highly offensive players lying around ready to make lines. Good teams have three or four, and then it falls off. When you go and build lines do you then add guys that create nothing to fill it out, or do you add guys with jam that have shown to create lots of chances.
That's who he is right now, and I haven't said otherwise.