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Originally Posted by Textcritic
2005-06 was Staal's 21-yeaar-old season. His birthday is 29 October. Sam Bennet's 21-year-old season is 2017-18. He will not turn 21 until June.
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Semantics. He started the season as a 20 year old, exactly as I said and how many many many people differentiate between "seasons." Otherwise players like Staal and Monahan never had their "18 year old season" despite both playing right after being drafted.
On October 5, 2005 the Hurricanes played the Lightning and Staal was 20 years old at the time. That season he put up 100 points. Due to the lockout it was his second season in the league.
The poster I was responding to said that Staal didn't break out until he was 22. Which was certainly not true.
I have no idea how it relates to Bennett, other than being an extremely poor comparison to make when using Staal as a comparable player.