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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Why do we assume Bennett would have become the player he is in Florida if he stayed here? There are hundreds of examples of NHL players finding their game after a change of address. It doesn’t mean the original team mismanaged the player. Sometimes it takes a new team, a new city, a new role - a total reset - for a player to find another gear.
If Sharangovich becomes a 35 goal guy with the Flames, that won’t mean the Devils screwed up or that he would have become that player in Jersey.
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One of the mistakes we made was Backlund as our #2C for so many years. He could have been the best #3C in the league on a deep and successful Flames roster, if we had just had the balls to play Bennett at #2C with Tkachuk.
Monahan Gaudreau
Bennett Tkachuk
Backlund Frolik
Each of those pairs could have been the anchors of our top 3 lines... Instead of the actual anchors we used, like Brouwer et al.
#2C was one of the first things Florida did with him.