Nick Brain generally doesn't partake in too many April Fools jokes as the mastermind, but has been a supporting player or target in a few of them over the years. In his midget days, Nick's coach Bernard "Boom Boom" Barrister pulled a great April fools prank on his team by pretending to care about analytics-based hockey methods and ideas, giving his young team some unique, forward thinking training to help them become better players. Bernard was then like "HAHAHA APRIL FOOLS!" and had them resume the normal practise of one hour dump and chase, one hour of clutch and grab practise, and one hour in the finer points of goonery. Said practise was probably completely unrelated to Nick's relative lack of success as a player at first, because c'mon, old time hockey training never let anyone in the modern era down, right?

The best April Fools prank ever, though, was Nick's former SMJHL coach Tommy Salami pranking the team by impersonating a quality coach. This prank somehow extended beyond a single April Fools Day however, and quickly became a multi-season gag that was mercy killed by the hiring of the far superior Anatoli Terrorov to helm the benches for Colorado. Still, it was a good effort by Tommy, so good in fact that he re-used this gag later when he was hired by the Edmonton Blizzard.

(j/k love ya tommy in the unlikely event you're reading this )