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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
Why does Janko deserve an opportunity over Bennett?
Bennett's numbers and analytics were just as good, if not better than Janko's last season
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Keep studying those spreadsheets and don’t watch the actual game on the ice. Bennett was horrible last season and got a lot of opportunity to produce, and did nothing. His defensive play sucked and he hurt every line he was on. He took stupid penalty after stupid penalty, and plays died on his stick as he refused to use his line mates. Bennett did SFA in a positive way last year. He was the biggest disappointment on the hockey club, and by a large margin, and that includes TJ Brodie’s mess of a season.
Jankowski showed a lot more. He was better defensively and played the tougher position. Jankowski actually showed he could use his line mates to his and their advantage. The team would have been in a much better position had they given him some talent to work with other than Bennett, Brouwer and Hathaway. Jankowski showed a lot of promise, did a lot of good things last season, and was one of the actual highlights of a pretty depressing season. Jankowski was way better than Bennett, and it wasn’t really even close.
Jankowski and Bennett were headed in different directions last year, but if you only look at a spreadsheet you wouldn’t be able to see that.