LOL. the last few magic beans are already more valuable than bennett. 2 of them are better NHLers right now.
"most likely" to only be as good as bennett? nope
2016: Poehling (31pts in 36 games in the NCAA. easily the habs top prospect and potential #2C in the future) doubt they trade him stright up for bennett
2015: Roslovic ( 14pts in 31 games as a rookie C) already has more value than Bennett
2014: Pastrnak (one of the top young stars in the league, worth more than 10 sam bennetts)
Mckenzie has Wilde at 26, and McIsaac at 26. I'd take either of those magic beans over bennett personally. the flames made the same mistake the leafs dfid under Burke thinking they were better than they were and now they are a non playoff team without a pick in the top 100. awful.
take the 25 and 83
Yeah. No.
You're cherry picking draft picks.
2014; Scherbak, Goldobin, Ho-Sang, Quenneville, McCann, Bleackley.
2013; Gauthier, Poirier, Shinkaruk, Burakovsky, McCarron, Dano, Klimchuk, Dickinson
2012: Laughton, Jankowski, Matheson, Subban, Schmaltz,Gaunce, Sammuelson, Matteau.
For every good pick in that 20-30 range (like Skjei, Pasta, Roslovic), there's 3 that are not as good as Bennett.
This is also how stupid this forum is:
Kapanen = Gold
Roslovic = Gold
Bennett = Bust
Sam's 6 months older than Roslovic, younger than Kapanen; and he's already played 3 years in the NHL while the other two were cutting their teeth in the minors. Yeah, his draft spot means a lot, but it's like people forget the guy lost his D+1 season; when he played with good teammates as a 19 year old put up 36 points in a defensive role. Two years with Gulutzan and playing with barely NHL'ers have not done Bennett any favours, but to think some magic beans in the 20's are worth more than him is just stupid. Plain old stupid.