As part of a fan-friendly feature, a member of the Calgary Flames in-house editorial team peppered Sam Bennett earlier this week with a list of questions submitted from across this hockey-crazed country.
The most cheeky inquisition came from a Flames follower in B.C., who wondered how old he figured he’d be before media-types were referring to him as just Sam Bennett instead of ‘__-year-old Sam Bennett?’
Sorry Sam … it won’t be in this article.
Because with many of his puckster peers in Toronto this week for Team Canada’s world-junior selection camp, this seems like a perfect time to remind fans that … here it comes … 19-year-old Sam Bennett could have been one of the marquee men at the latest instalment of the under-20 international showdown.