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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I've seen takes like "After the Colorado series Bennett should have been the 1C".
I agree that I'm exaggerating the incongruity. But I've also seen "Bennett needed to be with Gaudreau and Monahan on RW for a season", Bennett should have been on Backlund's wing like in first year" and "Bennett needed to play centre (which would have meant' 3rd-4th line deployment)"
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Totally fair. Ultimately I think the organization simply failed to develop (m)any complete players, instead relying on patchwork hoping to be just good enough.
We can hindsight a bunch of ideas, but ultimately I think it was just a roster that couldn't fit together very well. Easier said than done, but the best option was probably to trade one of Sean, Johnny, or Sam, as it's simply too many 'conditional' players to build around.