[GranteedEV]

There are two Sam Bennetts:

Confident Bennett. Forget the playoffs, I would rather go back to his play in around December 2017 - that whole month he was brimming with total confidence and it felt like he by far the best player on the ice every night. Look at AC's highlights from that season - look at his poise behind the net in that Ottawa game or his cycling against Vancouver:



...and then, there's unsure, invisible-at-best Bennett. He doesn't know what the team wants from him, he's afraid to make a mistake. All that stuff that usually ties into how players play for their coaches. It's not a lack of effort, that much I believe firmly.

As long as Bennett is a Flame we'll probably never see confident Bennett because we've elected to bury him and rarely does he get to play with players faster than him, which is something I feel he thrives beside.

At this point as a fan of the player I just hope we trade him and let him find his footing elsewhere. As a fan of the team, we're not going to get what we want out of him because we're stuck in the same cycle of mediocrity that defines us.