Inside the Dressing Room

Key Lime · Guru

RE: Inside the Dressing Room

gfeaver · Veteran Member

Ray Bourque used to change gloves every period, what is the big deal? same with sweaters....the hospital thing gets me too.

Jonny G · Senior Member

After a double-OT game in an out-of-town high-school tourney, I 'spiked' one of my teammates Gatorade with lots of Tobasco. He downed it. Pretty funny for me until I received the 4am wake up call the next morning and noticed that all of my clean clothes were covered in shaving cream.

barry33 · Guru

gfeaver wrote:

Ray Bourque used to change gloves every period, what is the big deal? same with sweaters....the hospital thing gets me too.

My point is this. All their lives these guys play with the same pair of gloves all game. They do not see the need to use a different stick every day. They are very happy to put a sweaty jersey on. And they do not have trainers..they pick up their OWN clothes and pack their OWN bags. Now, all of a sudden, they are in the NHL and are "stars". I know hockey is a big money sport but geesh..can you imagine the cost of some of these requests? 6 pairs of dry gloves a game? 85 sticks a year. Getting a trainer to drive clear across the city to sharpen your skates when you have a perfectly good sharpener in the trainers room? I can fully understand legitimate requests. But one needs to wonder how many of these are legit and how many are ego driven.

Jay1982 · Guru

Barry, no need to name names, but how many did I get right

barry33 · Guru

Jay1982 wrote:

Barry, no need to name names, but how many did I get right

Kovalev, Koivu, Zednick, Bonk, Theo and Markov (some screwed up twice lol)

Oh..and by the way..before the Koivu Gods swoop down on me..his "offense" was the least disturbing.

-- Edited by barry33 at 11:23, 2006-02-21

Key Lime · Guru

jeanthehabtiste wrote:

I remember when I was on a rep team when I was a kid, we were in Ottawa for a tournament and one of the coaches assistants smeared Vicks Vapor Rup on the inside two of the guys cups before practice. WUAHHHHH!!

Talk about keeping your nuts from sweating

Muller93 · Guru

Habtastic wrote:

Ummm... I hope that 'loser' comment was for the player. I agree, the most 'Grotesque' is not going to the Hospital.

Yes, the loser is the player...if he did not have legit reasons of course.

plouf · Guru

barry33 wrote:

Jay1982 wrote:

Barry, no need to name names, but how many did I get right

Kovalev, Koivu, Zednick, Bonk, Theo and Markov (some screwed up twice lol)

Oh..and by the way..before the Koivu Gods swoop down on me..his "offense" was the least disturbing.-- Edited by barry33 at 11:23, 2006-02-21

You mean none of those was Ribeiro? Wow! I'm seriously amazed. I'll have to reevaluate...

barry33 · Guru

plouf wrote:

barry33 wrote: Jay1982 wrote: Barry, no need to name names, but how many did I get right Kovalev, Koivu, Zednick, Bonk, Theo and Markov (some screwed up twice lol) Oh..and by the way..before the Koivu Gods swoop down on me..his "offense" was the least disturbing.-- Edited by barry33 at 11:23, 2006-02-21 You mean none of those was Ribeiro? Wow! I'm seriously amazed. I'll have to reevaluate...

For what it is worth Plouf.. no. From what CJ told me, Ribs is very "flaky" but not a bad team guy at all and he actually spends EXTRA time at the kids hospital..go figger

plouf · Guru

Well that's good to hear. I actually think you need flakes like Ribeiro on the team. Not too many mind you, but a couple...