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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Tampa traded their 3rd overall pick for a top pairing young defender.
I've seen jiri post this recently as well about Bennett.
Bennett not turning out isn't the problem, it's not moving him for a significant asset that is the problem.
It comes down to poor talent evaluation which is what plagues the majority of trelivings bad decision making.
The problem isn't Bennett not turning it out, it's the organization not using him as a trade chip when his value was high.
Making the playoffs can't possibly be a marker for success at this point when the results have been a 4 game sweep, a 5 game blowout and a record setting 7 unanswered goals in an elimination game.
Winning 3 playoff games in 4 years as any kind of positive indicator is some Stockholm syndrome type stuff. The bar is on the floor here.
NHL.com is all screwed up incorporating the stupid play in round as part of the playoffs this year so it's not super simple to look at, but 3 playoff wins in the last 5 years must be in the bottom 1/4 of the league.
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The ditch to ditch stuff just drives me nuts.
Did I say they were a model franchise? I've mentioned three times today that the Treliving must go crowd has ample reason to think they way they think.
I'm just saying if you review teams against peers there are levels, and there are certainly teams that have sputtered worse than the Flames in the last five seasons.
And Bennett.
You need to move him before he started to decay to get the value you suggest possible. Sure Tampa moved Drouin for a good young defenseman, but that trade was shock the day it happened. Terrible move for Montreal.
So it comes down to deciding Bennett wouldn't work out after his rookie season, which I doubt many would.