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Originally Posted by bigpete
The hope is that if you can find just the right potion that unleashes the potential that's in there somewhere it would make this team so much better and deeper. We've see flashes of it in his rookie year and every playoffs. I don't think anyone still thinks he can be a first liner, but a force on the third line seems like it is a possibility.
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No. Just no. Stop this building up the Legend of Sam Bennett. Bennett has not been some superstar unleashed in the post-season. Bennett has been Bennett. The same no skill, no brain, crease crasher that does as much damage as he does good. The difference being this past summer (play-in and playoffs) he had Dillion Dube lifting two scrubs to make a decent line that Winnipeg didn't have an answer for. Once the actual post-season started the efficacy dropped. But the reality was it was all Dube. We said that as that series played on and then again in the post-mortem. There were more than a few of us that were concerned the minute Dube was taken off that line the success would dry up and regular Sam Bennett would return. Funny thing, you remove Dube and replace him with Nordstrom and that line is worse than anything we've seen from any 4th line. Dube has proven to be the player. Sam Bennett is what he is. I wish people would stop trying to create something he isn't.