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Originally Posted by New Era
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.
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Sure, Bennett took more penalties, but his penalty differential was only -6 compared to Jankowski's -3.
Bennett also produced more primary assists, total assists, and points per 60 minutes as well as had a higher individual corsi for per 60, fenwick for per 60 minutes, shots for per 60 minutes, etc..
Also, Jankowski had an individual expected goals for of about 11, whereas Bennett had an individual expected goals for of 15 (by far the best on the team), which he failed to reach because of his poor finishing ability. Despite his poor finishing ability and lack of luck, the crazy amount of chances Bennett created for himself, especially compared to Jankowski, helped him only finished one goal back of Janko 5v5.
Janko had a decent rookie season and he's proven himself to be an NHL player but he hasn't proven at all that he's better than Bennett