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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Yeah, that's pretty much the point. I liked Bouma in 2014-2015, like we all did.
Well stats just don't back that up. Bennett replicated (or beat) Bouma's career season once. Four years ago. But I really don't care, because all I'm saying is that Bouma was good in 2014-2015. As far as bottom six players go, he was extremely well thought of. Just like Bennett is today.
I think we all knew what Bouma was at the time. Probably very few expected him to continue to produce at a 40 point pace because of his shooting percentage. You're acting like we couldn't evaluate at the time and there's been some great epiphany in retrospect. That's not the case, we saw Bouma as a bottom six guy who provided energy, came to play, was a warrior on the ice. Some crazy posters went so far as to allude to him being a potential core-type player. Like this here crazy guy:
Maybe if he didn't party so much he wouldn't have regressed, but at the time a lot of the same stuff we are saying about Bennett we were saying about Bouma. We just have short memories and remember him as the empty husk buyout he became. But I think you're selling his 2014-2015 season short if you don't think that many saw him as a very good bottom six player. I really don't think I'm insulting Bennett comparing the two. But I see Bennett providing the same type of energy, warrior type attributes that we were hoping to get from Bouma when the Flames signed him. It didn't work out for Bouma, sure, but I think the 2.2M (~2.5M inflated) is a good comparable for Bennett.
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Ok I give.
I still honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish here.
Just my rule, but I generally don't take the best possible outcome for one side of a comparison and compare it to the most recent or average of another.