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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
TBH for what Bennett was at that exact moment in time it was an overpayment.
He was a forward that required an expansion draft protection slot, that was having an absolutely terrible two season stretch where he had 12 goals and 24 points in his previous 90 games.
Florida bet on his potential though and ended up working out gloriously for them.
Bennett's failure in Calgary wasn't the trade return, it was they somehow completely mismanaged him and played him as a bottom 6 winger for 4 seasons and not really trying him as a top 9 center even though his best stretch of play over that entire time period was in the 19-20 bubble where he had 8 points in 10 games centering Dube and Lucic...only for them to abandon that when the season started again the next year (partially because they moved Lindholm to C which also worked pretty gloriously as the 12-28-19 line).
Seems pretty crazy that a roster that had Backlund, Bennett, Monahan, and Lindholm could never seem to figure out their center depth to have all those guys effectively play center for this team.
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They couldn't split up 13-23-28 because one of the other lines didn't work in the bubble and we missed Tkachuk.
I remember before camp Geoff Ward said we asked Sam what position he wants to play and when the practice rosters came out he was playing on the wing on the bottom lines again. Embarrassing stuff.