I think the reason why NHL players don’t have big personalities or charisma like in other sports is both media training and the culture around hockey.  If anyone were to be very eccentric or loud in their public image a majority of the NHL media apparatus and most older fans would hate it.  Look at the Storm Surge with the Hurricanes and Don Cherry literally saying “young men expressing themselves themselves for joy of winning.  You don’t do these kinds of things in professional hockey.”  This isn’t media environment that cultivates any type of interesting personalities.  They all want the same white bread, generic responses and personalities.  Obviously a decent number of the players don’t really care about this kinda stuff and that’s fine, I wouldn’t either; there would be more than a handful of players with memorable or tangible personalities beyond Brad Marchand or PK Subban