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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
Sam Bennett could go and get a hat trick in 15 straight games, and it still wouldn’t lead to him getting more ice time or opportunity above JG or Tkachuk. It’s the glass ceiling on LW with the flames that IMO has led to him requesting a trade not that he doesn’t understand his role, I think it’s just frustration that he has no path forward no matter what he does.
He was electric in the playoffs but did he get anywhere near the amount of ice time as JG? The eye test was extremely obvious that he was our best player against Winn and Dal and yet no matter what he did his line didn’t get more ice time than the “1st line”.
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Wow. "Electric"?
That is absolutely not my recollection of it. Bennett was good; he finished his checks and hounded the puck. He created havoc in the offensive zone and scored and set up some good chances in the slot and the crease. But the idea that he is a dynamic, cerebral player that was bringing viewers out of their seats to see what he might do next is flatly false. It baffles me how exaggerated Sam Bennet's rather pedestrian hockey skills are by some on this board.
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