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Originally Posted by transplant99
What in the world are you basing this on?
He has played an average of 10 seconds a game SH this season.
31 seconds a game for his career.
Nick Grossman, Jyrki Jokipakka, and Tanner Glass (among many others) played more SH TOIPG for this team over Sams time as a Flame.
No, Sam Bennett is not a good PKer. At least in the eyes of multiple coaching staffs since coming to the NHL.
PKers need to be very cerebral on the ice and be able to anticipate things...not attributes that Sam Bennett has ever been strong at in his career.
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You can't evaluate someone's PK performance on an absence of PK time, that is asinine. Especially someone who typically gets powerplay time as it's rare for players to be used on both special teams (typically only Backlund and Lindholm are typically used in both, and even Backlund has seen his PP time diminish). Coaches like to get everyone involved in special teams.
You must evaluate someone's PK performance on their PK performance. And when Bennett has been used as a PKer (2016-17), he was an excellent PKer despite your narrative about anticipation and cerebral play (almost as if it's a madeup narrative).