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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
Bull. Bennett has always taken more penalties and made more stupid mistakes at center and has never been great at using his linemates.
Bennett is a shoot first power forward, claiming that is suited for the wing, is a massive load of crap because it is better suited for the wing.. Also, Bennett's best stretch in his career was on LW with Backlund.
He's more valuable not taking as many stupid penalties and not giving the puck away.
Bennett is never going to be Kadri light because Kadri can use his linemates properly and is significantly better defensively.
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Your take on Bennett is crap. You seem to be arguing he can't think the game, which I think is just part of the crutch some fans use when they throw around the term "low hockey IQ", which I think is done as an easy way out to explain things that require more than a simple judgement, and instead require a multi-layered assessment.
You think Bennett can't think the game? Is that why he's been able to adapt to the wing, to centre, back to the wing, back to centre and wherever the team needs him to play? Or that he's adapted the game to playing a bottom-six role while driving play for the team in a way that screams "holy crap, why do we pay and play guys like Brouwer, Neal, Jankowski, Chiasson and a 700 year old Jagr"?
His poor discipline is because he "can't think the game", and not because he was just an immature/young player who is playing at the highest level of his sport while being incredibly frustrated due to his circumstances?
Bennett is shoot first? You say this like it's a bad thing. Pucks to the net and driving the net is a pretty good way to find success. Bennett can't use his line mates? What line mates are you referring to? James Neal? Troy Brouwer? Alex Chiasson? Mark Jankowski? A 700 year old Jaromir Jagr? Ha! "Use his line mates"...when your line mates are actually incompetent leeches/on their way out of the league and they're so bad that Johnny Gaudreau can't even make them effective - how is Sam Bennett supposed to pull that off? Or are you referring to Milan Lucic and Dillon Dube who combined with Bennett provided us our best line during the playoffs?