PLAYER PROMPT
The message Walton has as a reminder is "Pride". He writes it to the palm of every new glove. The reason behind this is that while it is a cliche to "play for the logo on your chest", it is actually hard to look at your own chest. When you write it on your palm, it is way easier to remind yourself. And obviously, Pride is not just the team, but also a feeling of pleasure, self-respect and responsibility for yourself and others. It is something every team sport athlete should have every time they put a jersey on. Besides that, Walton does not have many other special equipment personalizations, but he does have a few superstitions. He always switches his skate laces to new ones before a game, because once in junior hockey his laces were not poperly tied and he actually tripped because of them while on a breakaway. That's why he always needs to have fresh laces out of the pack.