With just one goal and two points in his last 22 games, Sam Bennett is in another prolonged scoring slump. Now in his second full season with the Calgary Flames, Bennett continues to struggle with offensive inconsistency as he adapts to playing centre at the highest level. The Flames project Bennett as a centre long term, but that doesn't necessarily mean he should be playing down the middle right now.
It's not like Bennett has been bad in his first two NHL seasons, because the numbers below are respectable as a 19 and 20-year-old player.
Again, Bennett hasn't been markedly terrible and nor have his numbers, but he also hasn't jumped off the page the way so many of us had hoped after his really strong 2016 preseason.