It was no secret Sam Bennett was struggling to get his name on the scoresheet.
At one point during an 18-game scoring slump, there was nearly a night that the snakebitten rookie wouldn’t have his name on the Calgary Flames’ lineup sheet, either.
“A few weeks ago, we even talked to him about this,” Flames head coach Bob Hartley revealed after Tuesday’s practice at the Saddledome. “One game, in the first period, he was not very good. And after the first period, I told Marty (Gelinas) and Jacques (Cloutier), ‘I’ve seen enough. We’re going to go to the Johnny Gaudreau trick.