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Old 11-20-2018, 02:44 PM   #2106
Oling_Roachinen
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I’ll never understand why people talk about a player as young as Bennett is as if hes a finished product that won’t continue to improve. Disappointing outcome? It’s still too early to judge him as a finished product. We don’t know yet what he may still become. The vast majority of players have not peaked at age 22. So shortsighted to think he’ll only ever be what’s he’s shown so far.
That's perfectly fair response.

Counterpoint though, by the time Yakupov was traded by the Oilers, we unanimously agreed (I'm sure we wrote it down in the monthly meeting minutes) to call him a bust on CP and laugh at the Oilers expense. He was younger than Bennett is now.
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