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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Great playoffs? Yeah sorry we need someone who can show up for more than six games a year. Flames needed a player who could get them to the playoffs.
If Benny was a first line player in Calgary, he would’ve been a first line player in Calgary.
Love the guy but he is not the same player in Florida that he was in Calgary. Not even close. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last. We’ve been on the winning side of many of those trades and we’ve been on the losing side of a few of them too.
Anyone who thinks that he would be the exact same player with the flames that they see with the Panthers is just dreaming. There are a million things that can go right or wrong and affect how players career develops. Assuming that everything would’ve turned out identical if we would’ve kept him here and just gifted him first line minutes is a fool’s errand.
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Not expecting him to be exactly the same in Calgary as Florida.
But anyone who thinks he got every opportunity here to succeed as he should have got, is fooling themselves.