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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Not really. He said a couple nice things about Bennett before the trade but he was pretty nonchalant about it afterwards.
BTW, Bennett wasn't a healthy scratch in Sutter's first game (March 11, 2021), so it wasn't a matter of copying Ward's lineup. Whoever said that was making it up. He played and got a couple points in that game. In fact, in hindsight I think he wasn't scratched, just benched, by Sutter.
He definitely played better, especially in the last 4 games under Sutter - the first game he had a couple assists, but then went ice cold until 4 games before the trade. Sutter still played him mainly third line (also 4th) and on the wing. Again, the issue was the makeup of the team as far as position went.
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According to Bennett, Sutter told him "I wish I had more time with you". That seems like lamenting to me.
Getting off topic again, but the Flames are constantly getting in the way of their own players' development. And the Flames organization always responds with making players work harder.
Reminds me of the time I was working in the kitchen at Earls. We were short staffed and moral was low. Management thought if we cleaned the whole restaurant really well, from top to bottom, the extra work would somehow bring us together. Meanwhile, that same day, the front of the house was sampling a new lineup of wines. Needless to say, management's strategy did not have the intended effect.
Pretty much the Flames motto. Let's force every player to be a mid-six grinder and then complain that we have a team full of mid-six grinders or that every player that doesn't want to be a mid-six grinder wants out.