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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
70 points is a lot, but I don’t think it is even unreasonable. A motivated Bennett with good linemates and PP time could easily be 60 plus
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A motivated Bennett? You mean he hasn't been motivated the past five years? What is the reason behind this? Probably everything but Sam Bennett, right?
And you believe that Bennett could score 70 points, all it would take is good linemates? The top scorers on this team are just at ~60 points and might crack 70, if things go right for the Flames down the stretch. But Bennett is good for 70 points, because he's in the same class of player and finisher as Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan, and Lindholm, right? You do recognize that to hit that level of production Bennett would become one of the top 20 players in the game? Even a 60 point player would put him in the top 50 players. How the hell is Sam Bennett going to jump from his current level of play to that of the best players in the game?
I also don't get the whole PP angle. Prior to this season Bennett was 8th in PP time from 2015-2019, 5th for forwards (470:35). What more does he need? In that time (311 games) Bennett generated 21 PP points. For comparison, Kris Versteeg generated the same number of points in only 93 games. He's had opportunity and he hasn't got it done. But he just needs more time and better linemates?