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Originally Posted by FanIn80
He was still young. He just needed time to grow into the comfort level required to play his style of play in the playoffs. Power forwards are a different breed... unless you're blessed with the size of Eric Lindros, it just takes longer to develop than other forward styles.
It took Iggy 5-6 years before he was a beast too.
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I don't know. Bennett always flashed in the playoffs so I'm not surprised about his play. Tkachuk never flashed in the playoffs for the Flames, ever. I kind of feel that it's possible that Tkachuk was suppressed by some of the veteran players on the Flames as we know Gio didn't care for him and maybe Lucic and other vets found him immature. Panthers really don't have that kind of veteran leadership presence so as I said before it looks to me like he's playing with the shackles off in Florida.