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Here’s something most teenagers hate hearing: Father knows best.

It’s probably not what Daniel Carr wanted to hear after every team took a pass on him when he was eligible for the NHL Draft.

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But guess what, kids? Often those words are true.

“I think I had a little different outlook on it,” Carr said Friday after the Canadiens hit the ice for the first time at training camp in Brossard. “I was fortunate enough that my father was a player agent a long time ago. And he said when I didn’t get drafted: ‘You’re mad now, but this is the best thing that could ever happen to you.'”

Jim Carr played for the University of Alberta in the late 1970s and after graduating represented some former teammates who made it to the pro level. Not being drafted gave his son a chance to spend four full seasons at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where he could work on his game and develop both physically and mentally in a university environment.