The Legend of Sam Bennett

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by Tacoman

We’re going to have to get used to this. Everyone knows our roster of players is better than how the team has played all year. So get used to every player we trade being significantly better with their new team than they were with us. I don’t get it. I don’t like it but it’s going to happen.

Rush the “rebuild” and then spend 5 seasons in a row actively employing the worst head coaches in the entire league and you get what you deserve. It screws up results and development.

There’s no mystery. It’s just poor management.

This team is where it deserves to be.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

I haven’t followed Huberdeau closely

Can you enlighten me on the beneficiaries of the Huberdeau effect?

I can never tell if you are trying to sincerely engage in a topic or not

[Wood]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

It helps that those two are wingers allowing Bennett to play his natural position. Everytime we square-pegged Bennett onto Monahan's wing I cringed.

It's too bad that in 400 games as a Flame we never saw a line of Gaudreau - Bennett - Lindholm/Tkachuk/Dube/Mangiapane/Hudler/Ferland/anyone ever attempted

It took a real NHL head coach to finally split up Monahan and Gaudreau for more than 1 game

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Huberdeau is much much better than either Gaudreau or Monahan. No wonder Sam is picking up some points playing on a line with him. Duclair has looked pretty decent this year too whenever I watch them.

Huberdeau has 479 points in 582 games, Gaudreau 483 points in 509 games

Funny how hard people are working to not give Bennett credit

He basically has nothing to do with any of the points he has getting, then, does he? Lol

[Monahammer]

Watching his clips tonight- he is getting to rebounds as if no one on opposing teams is covering him at all. Perhaps the division just wasn't ready to play him as tight as our division does? Looks very motivated toom good for him. Still don't really care, it was never going to happen here.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I can never tell if you are trying to sincerely engage in a topic or not

In this case, yes I am serious

I can tell you of linemates Iggy elevated

I seriously haven’t followed Florida much

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Wood

It's too bad that in 400 games as a Flame we never saw a line of Gaudreau - Bennett - Lindholm/Tkachuk/Dube/Mangiapane/Hudler/Ferland/anyone ever attempted

It took a real NHL head coach to finally split up Monahan and Gaudreau for more than 1 game

We got Gaudreau - Bennett - Chiasson under Gulutzan

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Huberdeau is much much better than either Gaudreau or Monahan. No wonder Sam is picking up some points playing on a line with him. Duclair has looked pretty decent this year too whenever I watch them.

Duclair was a free agent this offseason. Anybody could have had him, even the Flames.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Huberdeau has 479 points in 582 games, Gaudreau 483 points in 509 games

Funny how hard people are working to not give Bennett credit

He basically has nothing to do with any of the points he has getting, then, does he? Lol

No he’s doing the right things which is going to the dirty areas and driving the net
I just think Huberdeau is a criminally underrated player and better than anyone on the Flames
My point was more about him and less about Sam

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

No he’s doing the right things which is going to the dirty areas and driving the net
I just think Huberdeau is a criminally underrated player and better than anyone on the Flames
My point was more about him and less about Sam

I came across these posts by some Panthers fans on the HFboards forum:

Bennett is smoking hot, has completely pulled Huby out of his funk. Duclair has had a part in it but Bennett has brought a lot of energy to the line.

I think it would be overly simplistic to credit Huberdeau and Duclair for Bennett producing right away with the Panthers. Huberdeau was in a truly dire slump until, uh, he got lined up with Bennett.

Huberdeau was a ghost for the last 6-8 games. Something just clicked for him again after getting Bennett at center. Not just the points he's actually moving out there again. It was so bad we were sure he has some sorta injury

I'm not denying that the line is probably experience a hot streak. They've had six goals for and zero goals against in 3 games, all 5v5. That's obviously unsustainable. but I do think Bennett is bringing something to that line that is probably unique to himself.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

No he’s doing the right things which is going to the dirty areas and driving the net
I just think Huberdeau is a criminally underrated player and better than anyone on the Flames
My point was more about him and less about Sam

And we probably can both agree that a key problem with the Flames is the quality of the wingers

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

In this case, yes I am serious

I can tell you of linemates Iggy elevated

I seriously haven’t followed Florida much

Noel Acciari, Mike Hoffman, Dadonov all have benefited from playing with him
He and Barkov also have great chemistry but it’s wise to try and split them up and get more even production
But almost anyone that skates with him produces

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

And we probably can both agree that a key problem with the Flames is the quality of the wingers

Yup

[ComixZone]

Benny absolutely robbed by Korpisalo. 3 inches from his Hatty.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Duclair was a free agent this offseason. Anybody could have had him, even the Flames.

Not true
Anyone could have had him
Assuming he wanted to sign with them

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Huberdeau has 479 points in 582 games, Gaudreau 483 points in 509 games

Funny how hard people are working to not give Bennett credit

He basically has nothing to do with any of the points he has getting, then, does he? Lol

What are you going on about? Sam is playing with a player who is much better than anyone he was playing with in Calgary. It's not surprising he might get more points. Johnny used to get a lot of points, he doesn't anymore. Why do the career numbers matter today? Today Huberdeau is just way way better than Johnny and it's not close.

Not every post about Sam is someone being negative about the guy. Huberdeau is a great player. Not sure how you take that as a shot against Bennett. Really weird.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Wow Korpisalo made a huge save to deny Sam the hatty

[soulchoice]

Benny, so close to that hatty.

[RedHawk12]

Glad to see Bennett doing well. He was never going to play up to his potential here. Sometimes a player just needs a change of scenery. Bennett definitely needed one.

Sometimes the Flames are the beneficiaries of a change in scenery trade (Kipper, Huselius, Lindholm). Sometimes the Flames lose out (St. Louis, Giguere, Bennett??) Happens to every single team in the league. Can't be pinned solely on bad management.

[The Yen Man]

Panthers are definitely the team I'm cheering for, and now doubly so. But people seem to conveniently forget they have sucked for such a long time. For awhile there, they looked like Buffalo, a team that finishes perpetually bottom of the league. They've amassed a lot of prospects that all seem to have finally turned it up, with one of the best coaches in the league guiding them. Fun team to watch for sure.