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Originally Posted by Ba'alzamon
People love to blame Gulutzan, but Hartley was the one who shunted him to the wing for no apparent reason. And it wasn't just to play him with Backlund, either. Bennett spent an excruciating 19 game stretch on Markus Granlund's wing that year. That was one of the worst forward lines I've ever seen.
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Bennett was 19 under Hartley, it's not a travesty to play a young kid on the wing to get the feel of things, at the time Colborne was playing good as the 3rd line C so Bennett played wing mostly on the Backlund line and ended up with 18 goals, it was dummy Gulutzan who plopped him in a bottom 6 role on the wing for a couple of years and he didn't get close to 18 goals again until he was traded to Florida.
The combination of idiots Gulutzan and Treliving(who allowed it to happen) drove Bennett out of Calgary period.