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Originally Posted by transplant99
So again...he will be better with better linemates.... is this the argument?
No kidding.
Hey...why dont they get everyone better line mates and then everyone will be better?
He is a guy who should be making others better, not a the guy who should need the help, though i am very aware he is incapable of that.
Again tho...will see what happens the 6th time around, but no one should be holding their breath that it will be some huge improvement.
17 G and 23 A sounds reasonable.
Last year the 75th scoring C was on a 43 pt pace.
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His underlying numbers are strong, while his lines on ice shooting % is in the toilet. There's evidence based arguments that he's been deployed poorly by poor coaches on a team with poor depth and that putting him in a better position may help him and the team.
His linemates have been so bad that they've been knocked off the top two lines because players better than him can't make them work, so don't go off saying Bennett should be Neal's saviour when Connor McDavid can't even do it. Brouwer couldn't play with Monahan or Backlund, yet Bennett as a rookie was supposed to buoy him? No. Bennett has played the vast majority of his minutes with players who were unredeemable.