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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Hard to say how this will go for Florida. He really excelled in the short time he was there. Not just production, but he played like he gave a ####, something he rarely did in Calgary.
If they can keep him happy, it will probably work out. If they can't, I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in sulk country again before that contract is up.
Still will we at least kept him for expansion fodder as bait to protect Giordano, but oh wells.
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He was excelling in Calgary before he was moved, as well. If at some point he was sulking, so be it, everyone but Ward saw what he could do and the biggest difference between Bennett under Ward and Bennett under Sutter and Quenneville is that the latter actually gave him a chance to do it.
Any attempt to reframe Bennett as a hard-to-please sulker is ridiculous, given the circumstances.
And if it makes you feel any better, Gio would have been exposed regardless. And if Sam played the way he did in Florida to finish off the season here, he would've been protected anyway.