drpepper
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Reasons as far as player specific you would have to ask them, im not involved in those meetings.
I really don't know why they think Bennett can play LW. I really have no idea.
Liking RHS on the RW and LHS on the LW isn't stupid. Like I said it might not be optimal in this specific context but its not buffoonish.
This isn't a general scenario; this is a specific context with a specific player who has played multiple games as a RW on a specific team that is sorely lacking in LWs and skilled LWs in particular.
Except its not a problem. Its a preseason game that is being used for evaluation like a preseason game should. If Sprong makes the team one of Bennett or Perron is moving back to LW and chairs will be shuffled accordingly.
The answer is obvious. Why change anything else until you have to? As of this morning Perron and Bennett are RWs, if you want to take a look at Sprong at 3 line RW the simplest choices are either insert Sprong and sit Perron or insert Sprong and bump Perron down and sit Bennett.
Preseason games aren't only about evaluation. Coaches' thought processes and decisions in preseason games don't exist in some kind of vacuum that ceases to exist when preseason is over.
Perron is a LW. Bennett is a RW. Only one of them should be involved in getting Sprong in the line-up.
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