[BigThief]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I don't think he lifts other players. I think he rubs his teammates the wrong way, in fact. And the way he's good with the press is all about himself. As for being a two time champion, that's about being a good player on a good team. And he took himself right out of the 4 Nations with a selfish, showoff decision.

lol this is some crazy coping. He was named assistant captain here in Calgary at the age of 20, he's worn the A for two straight cups in Florida. Seems weird to put the guy you describe in your leadership group.
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/n...274992546.html

Sam Bennett had the same reaction as most of the hockey world when his Florida Panthers traded for Matthew Tkachuk in the offseason.

“I was not expecting that at all,”

Maybe he should have. It turns out, the Canadian forward is one of the biggest reasons Tkachuk decided he wanted to get traded to Florida in the first place and their connection

“There’s nobody I’d rather go out there with than,” Tkachuk told TNT , “a close friend of mine, a very close friend of mine.”

“One of the attractions he liked of the whole thing,” Keith Tkachuk, the superstar right wing’s father, told Toronto radio station CHUM back in March, “was getting a chance to play with Sam.”