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Originally Posted by TheoFleury
The Flames didn't get good value for Bennett. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
They got a couple magic beans for a quality 2C they drafted with the highest pick in the history of the team
Guess what this team's biggest hole on the roster currently is?
2C
More of a gaping chasm actually
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The trade value is water under the bridge, the player publically requested a trade during a time where his value was lowest.
The fact that they drove his value down with consistent misuse - position, icetime, linemates, special teams usage, however, is more concerning because it's a trend that continues to this day. Talented players like Phillips, Pellettier, Ruzicka, Dube in the system being asked to play with plugs or not play or play out of position, Monahan still being square-pegged as a centre, 3rd D pair making zero sense on a fundamental level in terms of basic puckmoving ability... these are the same sort of issues that led to Bennett's reduced overall value, and they persist. We're even seeing established veterans like Coleman and Backlund see their trade value tank as Flames, with very little done to figure out strategies - whether systemic or via the use of trusting callups - that will maximize the potential of the roster.
Instead night in night out we have to watch plugs like Pitlick, Centre Monahan, Lewis, Richardson, Ritchie, Gudbranson, Zadorov and the spiel we are fed is the same spiel we have always been fed under Treliving's unsuccessful tenure.
Sutter's a good coach, but his job isn't to decide the roster. There is too much deadweight on the roster and has been for a long time. That... is on Brad Treliving. Waive the guys who have no value-added, call up the players who can inject skill, and cut your losses on Sean Monahan as a centre. Pretty much every piece of dead weight sans Monahan was a Treliving acquisition, not a Button draft pick. And even Monahan could be salvaged with a reduced positional ask.