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Originally Posted by ah123
I don’t understand how trading Brodie or Bennett to the Oilers is beneficial. The Flames would be helping them plug major holes, making it more difficult for the Flames to make the playoffs next year. I don’t really see how RNH helps the Flames, unless they flip him (or Jankowski) to another team for more sandpaper type player
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This is my worry too.
Suddenly you have McDavid, Bennett skating circles around the Flames with speed while Bennett can fight and push our guys around. Suddenly they have a better player in Neal and we are stuck with Lucic who we couldn't trade. We would have so many people on CP pissed at BT and up in arms every game wondering what the heck is Lucic doing on our team and we have no way to trade him. To top it off his low give a crap meter would rub off on our players.
One thing Bennett did that many of our players failed to do was stick up for guys on the team including Johnny.
In many ways Bennett brought the team together during tough games. Bennett has one thing in spades and that is an identity, without it this might not be the same team going forward.