Man the extremes again.
Sam Bennett is a well liked player in the dressing room, he's likely not calling teammates scrubs, etc.
But he wasn't beyond being a healthy scratch as his numbers are terrible this year, both counting and underlying. His game against Winnipeg (pre scratch) was one of the worst he played this year (only Dube was worse in that loss) so he got scratched.
Did Ward handle it in the most pleasant way? Doesn't look like it ... but then this is the week where the player through an agent dropped a bomb on the team during a game in Montreal and didn't go through the proper channels.
I'm not supporting Ward.
I'm not supporting Bennett.
But the drama is getting a little rich in this thread. Non performing player asks for trade, doesn't do it through the proper channels, plays even more poorly, and team is annoyed with him and scratches him without explanation.
Seems like a logical path to me.
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