Creative Prompt – Written Task – 162 words
The Winnipeg Aurora decides that in the last twenty minutes of the practice, they’re going to do a strip shootout! Yeah, that very same thing that the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning got in trouble for a decade or so ago. The rules of the strip shootout are simple – if you score, you keep all your gear on! If the goalie stops your scoring attempt, you have to choose a piece of equipment to remove. It was pretty simple at first when Montagne made a save, players were removing their gloves, their jerseys, and their socks over their shin pads. It was once those easy things were removed that it really started to get interesting. Spack Jarrow elected to remove one skate and had to push off with one skate, barefoot with the other, which really restricted his mobility on the ice. Marcel Beck was shirtless and only wearing his cup by the end of the contest when he was pronounced the winner.