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Originally Posted by dammage79
These recent playoffs he centered Dube and Lucic and produced with little to no special teams. They stuck with him there thick and thin and he succeeded. Walking into the season all the talk from the Flames was Sam at Center and stability. Game 1, shuffled about.
Look, I'm not saying Bennett hasn't earned his misfortunes. But I think its fair to say that he has been thrown around every which way on this roster. And he's been good about it as a team player for the most part.
Right now, it seems to me that his ability to play anywhere in the line up while other players seemingly cannot has taken away any stability he has asked for or earned via the playoffs.
Call it confidence sapping. Because when they stick one place in the playoffs and show their confidence in him during that time, he thrives, functions like a top fix forward.
I dont know, like.others have said, Simon and Leivo eating top 6 minutes would piss me off too if I was Bennett with tenure.
They've done literally Jack squat. Oh and Mangiapane slots into the top line with zero effect and has had little to none all year gets spoon fed top six minutes.
If the coaches only had enough testicular fortitude to treat their other players like they did Bennett, perhaps we would have nobody play well.
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Now that we're going to showcase him, might as well get him some quality minutes.
I wouldn't mind seeing this:
Gaudreau Monahan Mangiapane
Bennett Lindholm Dube
Tkachuk Backlund Simon
Lucic Ryan Leivo