When I was volunteering at the Flames Charity Golf tourney 2-3 seasons ago, I was a "hole-spotter" and I was wearing a Flames' jersey at the time and Fleury comes up to my hole.
He starts talking to me about all sorts of random stuff and then suddenly asks if I'm a Flames' prospect and if anyone's talked to the guy it's hard to tell if he's serious or sarcastic at times and that's where I made my mistake. I started talking to him as if I was a prospect making my way up to to the NHL club...and he starts complimenting me about my size (I'm somewhat tall and must look like a giant next to Theo) and says that our team could use some strength down the left side because I told him I was LW.
Not until after 10 minutes of this goofing off and I get his autograph...at which point I thought it might be obvious I was kidding...he gets my autograph and says he might as well get mine because he expects to see me make the big club one day and it could be worth something.
Seriously...still have no clue if he was kidding or not but boy it was one of those 5 minute later things where you're like, "what just happened?"
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