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Originally Posted by transplant99
So if I am reading this correctly:
He was really good for a month over 3 years ago, and it was because of him.
All other times for 5 years, when he has been mediocre to awful, its the organizations fault. Wrong line mates and bad coaching.
Seems likely.
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Please stop hyperbolizing what I said.
He's shown that confident play for periods
every season.
And yes, starting your season flanked by Lucic and Norstrom is a confidence killer, that line was buried in the defensive zone and then the coach who said "Sam Bennett is a center" changed his mind and put Sam Bennett on the wing only ONE period later. You can defend all these no name head coaches who have come and gone all you want, and you can defend our rookie head coach too. End of the day, the team results will be the same, and the player results will be the same. The only coach with guts that we've had was the one Treliving inherited from the previous regime.
Nor has that line improved with the removal of Bennett. It's still a disaster with "super high IQ vet center Derek Ryan" centering it.
I want him to be more consistently confident. But some players respond poorly to being chucked around the lineup, chucked around special teams etc.
I know all your rebuttals so don't bother. I'm exhausted of talking about Bennett with you to be honest. It's as if you think it's in the team's best interest for the player to fail. Good for you, but I disagree. End of story.