interviewer, nonthreateningly: so how do you think that period went? :)
hockey player: [shaking, hands on hips, looking down at floor, dripping sweat, hasn’t made eye contact with anyone since coach told him he skated too much on the inside edges of his skates during the war of 1812, greasy] yeah, uhm…pucks…
I love hockey because the widely-accepted Inner Circle Of Greats is a Saskatchewan farm boy, a suspiciously Soviet-friendly twink, a guy whose name translates to "the best," a bisexual with a mullet, a suspiciously Russian fridge, The Beloved And Highly Favoured Child Of God, and two unrelated white boys named Connor
ok so nobody asked, but in the absence of some good pictures of pride tape warmups from the sens pride game this weekend, I've been looking into the few pictures that are available and stumbled onto this unidentified player who made the absolute insane decision to use pride tape on their socks??
and i decided i need to know who it is.
the easiest way to start narrowing down the player's identity are the skates. they seem to be Bauer Vapor HyperLite Skates, which 8 sens players use, according to GearGeek.com
we can easily rule out josh since he's been on ir for months, but for everyone else remaining, we need to look at the tape job on the socks and the glimpse of stick
brannstrom, kastelic, tkachuk, stützle and batherson are out because they don't use a candy cane-type of tape
which leaves us with julien gauthier and claude giroux. from there, i zoomed in extremely closely on many, many pictures of their sticks t try to match them to the sliver of stick we see in that first picture and
it's claude giroux. 35 year old, flyers captain of 10 years claude giroux wrapped his shins in a single circumference's worth of pride tape for. pizzaz? support? leadership?