Jamie Benn might be playing a different sport right now if the Dallas Stars hadn’t picked their future captain late in the NHL draft nearly a decade ago.
Benn has rung up more points than Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane and every other NHL player over the past two seasons and signed an eight-year extension worth US$76 million with the Dallas Stars this past summer.
But the remarkable, unexpected rise of one of the top Canadian hockey players almost never happened. Long before any of his NHL success, baseball was still tugging at his heart.
“I think if I never got drafted, baseball could’ve been an option,” Benn said in an interview with the Canadian Press.