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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
You mean the guy who whined his way off our team because he couldn't sit on 3 hour chartered flights because of his neck?
He totally was a Bennett type player with better hockey IQ. 3rd line grinder who Makarov turned into a 50 goal scorer. Never even came close to that after he left the Flames.
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1. Roberts didn't whine his way off the team: Flames doctors advised him to never play again. He wanted to keep playing and they sent him packing to continue his career elsewhere.
2. Sam Bennett wishes his career comes close to Gary Roberts', even ignoring Roberts' higher-scoring seasons with the Flames.
If you excised the first seven years of Gary Roberts' career this is what the rest looked like:
Season - GP - G - A - P - +/-
1993-94 - 73 - 41 - 43 - 84 - +37
1994-95 - 8 - 2 - 2 - 4 - +1
1995-96 - 35 - 22 - 20 - 42 - +15
1997-98 - 61 - 20 - 29 - 49 - +3
1998-99 - 77 - 14 - 28 - 42 - +2
1999-00 - 69 - 23 - 30 - 53 - -10
2000-01 - 82 - 29 - 24 - 53 - +16
2001-02 - 69 - 21 - 27 - 48 - -4
2002-03 - 14 - 5 - 3 - 8 - 10 - -2
2003-04 - 72 - 28 - 20 - 48 - +9
2005-06 - 58 - 14 - 26 - 40 - +4
2006-07 - 69 - 20 - 22 - 42 - E
2007-08 - 38 - 3 - 12 - 15 - -3
2008-09 - 30 - 4 - 3 - 7 - -11
TOTAL: 755 GP - 246 G - 289 A - 535 P - +57
Here's what Sam Bennett's looks like:
Season - GP - G - A - P - +/-
2014-15 - 0 - 1 - 1 - -1
2015-16 - 77 - 18 - 18 - 36 - -11
2016-17 - 81 - 13 - 13 - 26 - -16
2017-18 - 82 - 11 - 15 - 26 - -18
2018-19 - 71 - 13 - 14 - 27 - -6
2019-20 - 52 - 8 - 4 - 12 - -1
TOTAL: 364 GP - 63 G - 65 A - 128 P - -53
Sam Bennett's best season is worse than every season of Roberts' hypothetically abbreviated career except the last two, when Roberts was in his 40s.
If Sam Bennett was anywhere near as good as Gary Roberts we wouldn't be having this conversation. The comparison is preposterous.