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Originally Posted by GioforPM
In all your examples, Gaudreau already had a centre he was doing well with. I'm talking about long term roles. Replacing Monahan with Bennett type term.
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The only way you can figure out long term roles is if you give guys ice time together to see how they perform together. And if you give your 20, 21 year old 4th overall pick the type of legitimate ice time that 4th overall picks get on 95% of NHL teams.
I'll re-iterate. At what point did Bennett ever look like he should centre Huberdeau? I mean the Panthers have Barkov to play Huberdeau with.
You have to give them a chance together before you decide that. That's what the Panthers have done. It's what the Flames not only didn't do with Bennett, what they won't do with any future centers they draft.
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During injuries it's pretty much standard coaching to break up other lines as little as possible, so you are not letting an injury to one guy mess up multiple lines. That's why you often see a plug-in like Shore.
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This is not standard at all. You're just apologisting (is that word? It should be.) for Gulutzan. Monahan was done for the year. Bennett-Jankowski-Hathaway had been ice cold for months.
Even Mark Jankowski had more ice time centering Gaudreau and Foo than Bennett did.
I wish you would call a spade a spade for once, and admit the Flames were negligent.