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https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...dsided-report/

Here’s the craziest thing about Sam Bennett’s trade request.

It never happened.

Bennett has not asked the Calgary Flames to trade him.

Several sources inside the club told Sportsnet.ca team management was blindsided Saturday by Elliotte Friedman’s second period report that cited Bennett’s agent, Darren Ferris, as saying his client would like a “change of scenery.”

No one inside the organization is questioning Friedman’s reporting.

But everyone is questioning how a certified agent could think this is an appropriate way to try effecting positive change for his client.

This isn’t to suggest Bennett isn’t contemplating whether the grass could be greener elsewhere.

Clearly his agent didn’t just make this up.

It just wasn’t properly communicated to the team.