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Originally Posted by Jore
Did Bennett ‘earn’ time with Huberdeau? Quenneville, one of the best coaches of the past few decades, put him there without ever having him on his team. Why didn’t Q put Bennett with Lomberg and make him earn his way up?
As for the bolded, it’s a massive indictment on the Flames that they did not recognize what kinds of players Jankowski and Bennett are and tried to groom Bennett on the wing of a fourth liner. And I feel like I don’t really have to say much about the wingers that ‘scored before,’ if you don’t think that putting him with Brouwer and Neal were detrimental to his development I’m not sure what else there is to say. Btw it’s also a huge indictment on BT that those were the best wingers he could summon with his 5 mil AAV contracts
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It’s pretty standard to put a newly acquired guy in a top position just to see if you can benefit from adrenaline, etc. The Flames put Stewart on the top line his first game. Sometimes it pays off. It’s also pretty non-standard to put a rookie on the top line just because. And moreover, people are asking why coaches didn’t yank Monahan off the line in place of Bennett? Seriously? We aren’t talking the last couple years, we are talking when that duo was hot. And people are, in hindsight, saying split them up in favour of Bennett, who half the people here didn’t even think should play up the middle?