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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
This is the best post ever. The Flames clearly missed the boat. There's a reason why Bennett wasn't playing very well here and didn't seem to want to play here for long stretches. And even when he brought it in the playoffs they promised him they would make him a top line Center and then moved right back down again when the next season started. At what point do we admit that maybe the Flames management got it wrong. If the Flames management had got it right we probably wouldn't be in a retool right now, and a lot of these guys would have stayed together.
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Bennett had his chances. He would play well for a bit and disappear and not use his linemates and take dumb penalties.
Both the player and coaches are to blame. The biggest blunder was Glen and Geoff Ward.
Geoff asking him after the bubble what position he wanted to play, and immediately changing plans probably was the end of his time here.
The Tkachuk stuff is weird. By the time he broke out we also had Lindholm breaking out, so not sure how you move him up the lineup and he got top pp time as well.
Crappy timeline for us because that’s when all the shutdown and half seasons happened which wasted 2 years of his contract.