If Bennett had graduated, gotten better instead of worse, and become the 1C everyone thought he could be on draft day, this team looks totally different.
Totally. Different.
And I can't see how that's on Brad. Flames have gone "off the board" and it didn't work at all. They picked the obvious agreed upon player, and that player didn't pan out strong enough.
If the team got a 1C, a true strong 1C, everything else would work. But they didn't, so they linger as a middling team, exchanging middle pieces for other middling pieces.
Yeah Neal was a bum. That sucked, and again hurt the team, but I don't think anyone expected his total drop-off to uselessness - he'd looked okay with Vegas.
The team slotting is all screwed up, and it's because Monahan has to play 1C and not 2C, which he'd absolutely dominate at.
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