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Originally Posted by New Era
Seriously? You don't understand why anyone would be skeptical of this based on history? For all the crying going on around here about wanting the team to get better, including jettisoning the top players on the team, there are an awful lot of people who are willing to ignore YEARS of bad play from Sam Bennett because of a few games in a really weird playoff tournament, and promote him into positions that he has shown he is incapable of playing.
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I don't think many if anyone is saying Bennett is a slam dunk to repeat what he's done in the playoffs in the regular season. I'm not seeing that at all, and it's certainly not what I'm saying.
But it's not a good time to move a guy unless a team over pays because he may have taken a step and with that you could lose that trade massively.
He's only 23 ... this isn't a 32 year old with a good 10 game stretch.
But why do you want Bennett not to be good so badly? Doesn't that strike you as odd when you step back from things?
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Originally Posted by New Era
You supposedly coach. Do you not learn from past player behavior, or do you allow the same players to go out game-after-game and hurt your team? At some point you learn, and you maintain a very healthy level of skepticism about those players. They may get on string where they play well, but you keep them on a short leash looking for the first hint of previous behaviors and attempt to curb them. I am all for giving a player some latitude, but when does that same guy ####ting the bed and contributing to a dud finally make you wake up and say enough is enough? That's where we are IMO. It's go time, and Sam Bennett better show up at training camp ready to play this exact same way or the Flames would be way better off moving on from him. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Bennett is going on opportunity three. He better perform.
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Supposedly? What's the intent of that or than a person that just likes an internet fight?
Are you saying I haven't coached? Made it up for years? That's quite an insinuation.
Secondly ... I coach kids, not pro athletes. If I approach kids with a view that they're hurting my team, have skepticism and a short leash I wouldn't be a guy you'd want coaching your kids.
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Originally Posted by New Era
My big question for the Bennett Bros, what happens if he comes to camp and is the same old Sam Bennett? At a time when this team is need of change are you willing to gamble that Bennett is capable of playing at this level the majority of the time? Because if he plays as he has each of the past four seasons, he's not going to move the needle and the team remains stagnant. There is risk with every decision, and is this risk the team can accept and you're willing to accept? I see next year as Bennett's make or break with the Flames. He either performs, or he's traded early to some other team who hopes they can reclaim a player. Is that something you can accept?
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He may be 15 point Sam Bennett again.
15 point Sam Bennett is fine at his current salary level if he plays a physical role, sticks up for his teammates and elevates in the playoffs though.
However, I'd be worried about his next contract if that was the case and would be thinking to move him before the start of the next season if that was the case.
If that makes me a BennettBros than what the heck are you? Rooting against a team's players to not perform so you can say ha ha on a message board is a strange course to sail.