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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Just because other players succeeded during that time doesn’t mean it’s not someone else’s fault Benzo didn’t. He was buried, disrespected, intentionally undercut, and willfully undermined. From day one the organization’s goal was to set him up for failure. His lack of success is on management and coaching while the successes of other players during that same period were oddly enough fully independent of those same factors. Pretty simple stuff really when you think about it logically.
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Funny stuff. Nobody is saying that the organization was principally driven by sabotaging him.
They just slotted him with a rotating cast of bottom 6 guys. He produced like a guy playing with bottom 6 guys, he just failed to produce like a top 6 guy when deployed as a bottom 6.
You do realize that in the season GioPM is pointing to as his big opportunity (as a wing, not a C), Brett Ritchie played more with Gaudreau and Monahan. Brett ####ing Ritchie.
The linemates TOI stats are there for all to see. A nice even blend of guys like Janko, Rieder , Neal, Czarnik, Dube, Ryan, Leivo, Lucic, etc. Never a huge solid chunk of time with top 6 guys. Deployed as a bottom 6 wing in the blender.
No matter. Like I say, he got frustrated and fed up, asked for a trade, and got one. He now is a 2C on a top team.