Bennett going to another market is going to be interesting ... honestly the player is a bit of a study on some of the metrics available these days.
When you take the last three seasons of xGF vs actual GF Bennett is the fourth unluckiest forward out of 498 forwards that have played 500 or more minutes.
But is he?
The guys at the bottom aren't exactly a list of players I'd be targeting.
Wayne Simmonds
Magnus Paajarvi
Kyle Clifford
Brock McGinn
Brandon Dubinsky
Andrew Cogliano
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
Sean Kuraly
Brad Richardson
Ryan Kesler
Jordan Staal
Tobias Rieder
Sam Bennett
Lucas Wallmark
Mattias Janmark
Jordan Martinook
The more I watch Bennett the more I wonder if his lack of finish ... both in shooting and passing tanks his ability to finish to the level that models suggest.
Torn ... you don't wish the player future failure, but hate to see Calgary get burned if he figures it out.
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