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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Why haven't any of the previous coaches served as a reset for Benny if this is the case? There's no reason he shouldn't excel if he buys into what Sutter is selling, but the buy in with Bennett is the big problem.
He's a player with no puck skills and a terrible hockey IQ, who still thinks he's a top end player in this league. Until that changes he's worthless unless he's crashing and banging 100% of the time.
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I don’t know, probably because the coaches were incompetent.
Bennett leads the team in scoring and is our best player in the playoffs last season, and then comes in this year and misses a bit of training camp.
Night 1 of the season he gets played on the 4th line between Nordstrom and Lucic while Leivo, Simon, and Dube all got promoted ahead of him.
Why did the season not start with Lucic - Bennett - Dube? Well, because Ward was an idiot who coached this team to being the worst offensive team in the division. It also shows the disconnect between rewarding good performances and punishing bad performances that this team saw under Ward, the man was just a bad head coach.
I’m so happy to have a real head coach at this stage. Hopefully Benny and the other under-performers turn it around with a fresh start.