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Mazatt

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Dicks out for Kylington yeehaw.

But in all seriousness, even if Bennett broke out as 2C I think that would hurt Backlund a ton as he gets reduced minutes. I think we should look at what happened with Kadri where he is a bonafide 2C and takes the hard matchups, but if there's a better centre (and Bennett is definitely not that centre) that pushes him down the lineup, his numbers will take a hit.
 
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Mazatt said:
Dicks out for Kylington yeehaw.

But in all seriousness, even if Bennett broke out as 2C I think that would hurt Backlund a ton as he gets reduced minutes. I think we should look at what happened with Kadri where he is a bonafide 2C and takes the hard matchups, but if there's a better centre (and Bennett is definitely not that centre) that pushes him down the lineup, his numbers will take a hit.
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At worst I think he is a 2/3 C. Bennett should be playing with Tkachuk consistently. Might raise his compete level. Bennett can be a monster.
 
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Deen said:
At worst I think he is a 2/3 C. Bennett should be playing with Tkachuk consistently. Might raise his compete level. Bennett can be a monster.
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Fair enough. There's a chance he can be a good centre but honestly if the caveat is that he needs to rely on another player to allow him to play higher in the lineup, i.e. Tkachuk, I don't think that's where we should put him. I think if anything he needs to prove he can better distribute the puck in the bottom 6 before being moved up, and at that point it would probably be as a winger. However, Peters has definitely showed that he is the next one up in case of a top 6 injury, at least for now.
 
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Mazatt said:
Fair enough. There's a chance he can be a good centre but honestly if the caveat is that he needs to rely on another player to allow him to play higher in the lineup, i.e. Tkachuk, I don't think that's where we should put him. I think if anything he needs to prove he can better distribute the puck in the bottom 6 before being moved up, and at that point it would probably be as a winger. However, Peters has definitely showed that he is the next one up in case of a top 6 injury, at least for now.
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Bennett has never struck me as someone who is going ‘develop’ in the traditional sense that someone like Backlund did.
I think Bennett is either going to succeed in a top 6 role or he’s not going to succeed anywhere. He’s not going to work his way up the lineup, he’ll just all of a sudden fit somewhere
 
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Deen said:
At worst I think he is a 2/3 C. Bennett should be playing with Tkachuk consistently. Might raise his compete level. Bennett can be a monster.
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Just like when he raised his compete level for a whole two weeks last fall and then disappeared again.

I want Bennett to succeed. But at some point there has to be some realism to the discussions around here too.
 
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Just like when he raised his compete level for a whole two weeks last fall and then disappeared again.

I want Bennett to succeed. But at some point there has to be some realism to the discussions around here too.
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I agree, a lot of the 'minimum 2C' comments seemed to be based on simply WANTING that to be his floor at this point.
 
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Bennett after a good playoff, preseason, after all the talk of the coaches finding him a top 6 role; looking at the depth chart slotted beside Jankowski on the 4th line again.

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IF we can get a gif pro to get Benny's face on Gob.
 

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Volica said:
Bennett after a good playoff, preseason, after all the talk of the coaches finding him a top 6 role; looking at the depth chart slotted beside Jankowski on the 4th line again.

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IF we can get a gif pro to get Benny's face on Gob.
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I feel the same way.

We need another top 6 center in this situation of the lines(the Kadri deal would have been very good.)

Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Kadri Bennett
?-Backlund-Frolik

This would have set us up nicely.

Now of course that did not happen (dam you Kadri.)

In this line up situation, we need a top 6 RW.

Gaudreau-Monahan-?
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Bennett
?-Backlund-Frolik

This can also set us up nicely, if someone from within can become a very good top 6 winger, that would really benefit us.

But whatever the case we need to get Sam Bennett into the top 6 because that is where he will succeed.
 
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Just like when he raised his compete level for a whole two weeks last fall and then disappeared again.

I want Bennett to succeed. But at some point there has to be some realism to the discussions around here too.
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Thank you for being the voice of reason.
 
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