And in this same breath a minus to the Bennett detractors who "randomly" go quiet around here when he puts on a display, but are quick to say, "he plays that game every 20 or so" yet fail to address the ****ing scrubs getting 17+ minutes a night who've done less given more for the entire 82 game season. More than this loss (that was more telegraphed than the powerplay), I'm upset we're losing Bennett in the offseason.
If this is referring to me, my answer is the curve this player gets graded on is ridiculous. No other player who has been through here in the last 30 years could have had the year he just did and had this paragraph written about him after scoring an easy goal in a loss that might cause us to miss the playoffs. Too little, too late.
You act like scoring a fourth goal of the year in game 80 on a tap-in in a melt-down is some triumphant vindication. It's not. For a player that spent nearly the entire year on a third line, it's Godawful, actually, that that's the most he can manage. Tyler Kennedy had roughly the same 2013, from the exact same roster slot, and it got him frequently (correctly) ostracized, scratched in the playoffs and ultimately traded. If someone used Kennedy's crap 2013 season as "evidence" he was underused or to call out "haters," I never saw it. Incidentally, TK has also had a better 2014-15 than Bennett has had.
If Glass scores the same goal, the same way (and Bennett's goal was very much a Tanner Glass goal; his year end total, very much a Glass total), for his fourth of the season, in game 80, not only does the quoted paragraph not get written, but what takes its place is very probably a rant about how 4 goals in 50 or 60 games is evidence of how bad Glass's body of work is and how much he needs to go. Why the double standard between Bennett and these guys?
Frankly, as poor of a hockey player as Glass is, we've missed his fighting this year more than we'll miss Bennett's Glass-like production (from one line higher), lack of toughness, own goals and tape to tape passes to the opposition when he's gone next year. At least with Glass, when Rinaldo challenges the whole bench to do something about what he did to Letang, he reacts, which is more than I can say for our bottom six "talents," Bennett included, outside of Downie.
Oh, and those "scrubs" (who are, indeed, scrubs) haven't "done less" than Bennett has this year. The only Penguins wing who's "done less" than Bennett in 2014-15 and is not currently in the minor leagues is Adams. Even Ebbett greatly outproduced him per minute in his limited time in Pittsburgh.
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