The Bennett thing goes back to 2016-2017.
The lines that year were
Gaudreau-Monahan-Ferland/Chiasson
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Versteeg - Bennett - Brouwer.
When I would have loved to see.
Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Frolik - Backlund - Chiasson/Brouwer
Tkachuk - Bennett - Versteeg
You already had Gaudreau-Monahan as your LW-C pair at that time, Frolik and Backlund had shown good chemistry previously....it would have made sense to try to put together Tkachuk and Bennett as a pair. Instead they paired Bennett with Versteeg and Brouwer and blamed the lines struggles on him not being capable at center. The next year Bennett-Janko-Hathaway was great, and Bennett had become a full time LW.
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