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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Career PPG in the playoffs for the Flames top forwards:
Monahan:.... 0.792 (PP1)
Gaudreau:... 0.625 (PP1)
Lucic:......... 0.591 (PP2) (excluding his time in Boston)
Bennett:...... 0.583 (no PP time)
Lindholm:.... 0.555 (PP1)
Mangiapane: 0.555 (PP2)
Dube:......... 0.500 (only 4 games)
Backlund:.... 0.458 (PP2)
Tkachuk:..... 0.458 (PP1)
Ryan:.......... 0.222 (no PP time)
Playoff Bennett is a top 6 forward, even though he doesn't get top 6 line-mates, and he gets no PP time. He should be on PP2.
$2.55M for that kind of production is a bargain. Who cares what he does in the regular season?
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You sound like an Oilers fan...."BUT POINTS"
As for the bolded...
Everyone should and particularly management.
This season was the greatest example of why. This club was far from guaranteed to even make the post season. They were battling for their playoff lives with 12 games left.
One of the reasons for that was lack of secondary scoring as well as poor team defense. Bennett was a factor (with others) in both those categories.
Guys get paid because of what they do in the regular season because if they dont produce there, there are no playoffs to play their best. That is really quite simple.
He has been, for several years now, awful to mediocre as a regular season performer. 2.5M is NOT a bargain for that type of player. That is replacement level stuff sans the physicality but also adding in the stupid penalty factor.
IF he produces even 15-25 during the season and is even average defensively then yes 2.5-3M a year is palatable. He isnt that though. Or at least hasnt been.