Hockey Tryouts for… Anyone?

Tuesday January 10, 2006 at 2:11 pm | Filed under Sports

Even if you don’t like hockey or sports at all, you should read on as this really interesting article shot across my RSS reader yesterday.

Seems the Montreal Canadians were holding a practice in a building that wasn’t their unual practive facility. A handful of minor league hockey players were there and some fans to watch. This is all pretty normal. Where it gets weird is at a point where the action was down at the other end of the rink, some guy in full hockey gear jumped over the boards with a stick and a puck a skated in on Montreal’s goalie Jose Theodore… amazingly Theodore stayed in the net and rose to the challenge!

The skater, who turns out to be some minor leaguer out to prove his skills against the big boys, was stopped on his first attempt with a poke-check, but then he gathered the puck in and skated in for a second attempt, a wrister to the glove side that Theodore easily turned away.

“I didn’t really know what was going on until the guy came on,” a grinning Theodore said. “He came at me with his head down so I just wanted to say ‘Welcome to the big boys.’ I poke-checked him to say, `You have to keep your head up.’ When he came back, I thought about going out of the net and not playing into his game, but then I thought he had the [courage] to go on the ice, so I let him have a free shot at me.”

The man wasn’t arrested, but he was escorted out of the practice. I guess it gave everyone a good laugh.

I’m pretty amazed they were so friendly about all of this. I think in other sports the guy would have been hospitalized, and before this happened I would have thought hockey would yield the same result. You can read the whole story here.  And you can find teh video on the CNN Video page.

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4 Responses to “Hockey Tryouts for… Anyone?”

  1. Monique Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 4:50 pm

    Hockey is a class act!

  2. Gordon Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    I think it’s more of a Canadian thing more than hockey. Canadian’s are more relaxed when it comes to what is legal and what isn’t.

  3. joe Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

    Never thought of that angle… Wonder if fans on the field in the CFL get awarded prizes and the players and them go skippin off the field together? Wacky Canucks!

  4. Monique Says:
    January 11th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    Depends on which side of Canada you’re talking about, I’m afraid. You know those French people. *wink*

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