As with most major junior hockey teams, there is a rite of passage that many rookies seem to inherit.  This rite of passage is usually rookie initiation, or hazing as many in the outside world like to call it.  For some teams it is as simple as carrying or picking up pucks, for others doing teammates’ laundry.  Some teams can be more creative, rookies dress up to a certain theme, and others can be more devious in nature.

   The Kelowna Knights are rather in the middle when it comes to their rookie initiation.  They certainly are creative as they made the rookies dress up as Sesame Street characters.  The rookies also had to take care of the pucks, water bottles, and carry the equipment of the elder players.

   That is except for one rookie, Kalevolaripaako Käspertommevisnapuu, who had a little help avoiding this tomfoolery.  AGH Agency know all too well the rookie hazings that go on, with what happened to Zallerras Szlerchek’s initiation process.  So AGH Agency called up their old client to see if he was willing to protect the young Estonian winger.  When “Big Z” walked into the Kelowna locker room beside “KaKä’, nobody messed with him.  On one hand, players were geeked out to meet the Hall of Famer, and on the other hand nobody wanted to mess with one of the top fighters in SHL history.  Szlerchek gave them the terrifying story of his rookie initiation while with St. Louis.  So terrifying that we cannot post it here.