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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
I guess I’m not seeing your bottom line then. What I see is a forward producing at a replacement player level who offers nothing else but offensive zone penalties. Having possession is nice and all, but time and time again he negates all that possession by making idiotic mistakes at inopportune times. If he was drafted in the 5th round instead of 4th overall he’d probably clear waivers.
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It all comes down to the counts.
If a player has more good things happen when he's on the ice compared to bad things the team is better off ... especially when you're talking bottom six players.
That's pretty straight forward isn't it?
He doesn't get rewarded for whatever reason ... terrible shot, bad instincts, no puck luck, and if he did he'd be a top six winger. He's not.
But this is now a discussion of scratching Bennett for a journeyman forward on a heater. That doesn't make any sense.