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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
I don't even mind Bennett as a player but he's not a saviour. He's a nice player to have around and he can help on the right line. Florida can thrive with him because they're more than capable of killing penalties and coming up with timely goals in response to PPGs against. Calgary wasn't able to use him in the same way, especially with another penalty machine in Tkachuk already in the top six. Calgary isn't as deep as Florida and doesn't have the same environment to enable Bennett to succeed.
He's still nowhere close to living up to his draft position.
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4OA forwards since 1990:
Paul Kariya
Nicklas Backstrom
Mitch Marner
Brady Tkachuk
Mike Ricci
Andrew Ladd
Evander Kane
Ryan Johansen
Stephen Weiss
Sam Bennett
Jesse Puljujarvi
Benoit Pouliot
Chad Kilger
Todd Warriner
Nikolai Zherdev
Jason Bonsignore
Alexandre Volchkov
Pavel Brendl
9 are better, 7 are worse...Sam and JP are pretty much median.
Maybe his career plays out like Pouliot's...a few flashes but never puts it together. But it wouldn't be at all surprising if he carves out a Ricci like role for another decade.
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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Like he was in losing against the Lightning last spring. Cost his team huge when they were on a roll and were looking unstoppable.
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This is my favourite argument...Bennett is soooo bad that he killed his team by having to miss a game...
Game 1 was very rough and had several dirty plays...NHL wheel of justice came up snake eyes for Bennett. Tampa tied the game on that powerplay...one of 9 goals in the game. Bennett took 2 of the 17 penalties in that game.
Sam's team lost to the defending champs who went on to repeat.