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I don't think Bennet has been untouchable in a trade situation for the Flames for a few years. Nor do I think the ask has been too high from the Flames, but the agent is hoping this revelation drops the price much lower.

I don't see this lighting anything under the Flames to get something done, the situation has been in this state for a long time. Nor does it spurn any new interest in Bennett from other teams, GMs are well aware of a player is available and don't need to see agent tweets to get the news about who may be available in trade. Again though, with the goal by the agent to drive the price down for his clients to get traded, a GM may revisit the Flames and offer some bottom of the barrell offer out of due diligence or as part of a bigger package.

He's seemingly got a decent enough attitude about it all and can go up and down the lineup. In playoff he goes from a jog to a sprint for those few weeks and just executes with much less hesitation or overthinking, which plagues him in the regular season.

But the excuses about coaches and linemates (Eat bread and Dube are examples of starting low and working up, under the same system/organization and coaches) are long since exhausted. He is what he is at this point.