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While on the topic of Statistics, here is Bennett's career numbers before and after Dec 28th 2016 (a specific date when Frolik replaced him on PP2 for no particular reason other than media articles being written about how Frolik wasn't on the PP):

Pre: 115GP 27G 28A (or 19G / 20A per 82GP)
Post: 126GP 15G 19A (or 9G / 12A per 82GP)

Even if people want to say Bennett "is what he is" the fact that his career has been split into two such distinct halves suggests that we don't know which "what he is" that he is. I fear there may have been permanent damage if Gulutzan's approach to development may have been to remove all the skilled aspects to focus on being a solid 3rd/4th liner and killed any PP confidence he used to have (the last PP goal I can even remember him scoring was in that first half, where Bennett has the puck on the left circle and uses a Tkachuk screen to absolutely snipe a wrister. Haven't seen Bennett do a thing on the PP since then outside of cleanup duty). But until we see him under Peters we don't know.