Kody Clark is Wendel Clark’s son, and there’s no hiding that fact even though it won’t help Kody in his bid to earn an Ottawa 67’s roster spot.

For that, the younger Clark would be better off if he didn’t have an injured finger on his right hand or could at least find a way to adequately protect the digit during training camp at TD Place arena this week.

However, there was at least one hockey-related benefit to being the son of Wendel, who, after being the No. 1 pick in the 1985 draft, played 15 National Hockey League seasons before retiring a few months after Kody was born. He later became an ambassador for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team with which he was best known.

“Growing up, he was always bringing me around the Toronto Maple Leafs dressing room,” Kody Clark said on Tuesday before settling down to watch the scrimmage he was held out of while waiting for a new and better splint to protect his finger.

“From that I learned a lot. I could see how the pros do it day in and day out, see how they handle themselves, see how seriously they take it. It’s a full-time job, watching what they eat, how they work. It definitely helped.”

Kody Clark was the 67’s sixth-round selection in the Ontario Hockey League’s priority selection in 2015. He spent the past season with the St. Andrew’s College Saints, producing roughly a point a game.

“I’ve matured a lot and I have been working toward this for a year, trying to get bigger, faster and stronger, so, now that the time is here, I’m really hoping to embrace (the opportunity) and get a running start,” he said.

Wendel Clark’s first major-junior hockey training camp was with the Western Hockey League’s Saskatoon Blades in 1983.

“A lot of it is probably the same other than how the game has changed a little bit,” he said Tuesday, “but the kids are going through the same things.

“In that way, they would be way ahead of us. These guys, whether their 16 through 20 (years old), they have all trained all summer to get ready for camp.”

Gloucester’s Ethan Manderville, son of former NHLer Kent Manderville, also is on the 67’s training-camp roster, which on Tuesday totalled 41 candidates.

Head coach and general manager Jeff Brown said that number would be reduced to 26 or 27 after Wednesday’s sessions, then to roughly 23 for the start of the OHL regular season.

The 67’s play their first pre-season game on Friday in Kingston.