Quote: Nothing compares to the joy of coming home to a loyal companion, or so does your GM think as they come up with the idea to boost morale of the team and to get a mascot for the team with one move. So they will get a team pet (if there already isn't one), but they let players pick what it will be. So what kind of pet will it be? What will it be called? Does it just hang around the arena or training facilities or will it go into the locker or even join the team on bench (I’m pretty sure there is no rule in SHL forbidding gooses from the bench)? Who takes care of it? Will there be dedicated staff for it or will it spend a week with each player?

I feel like this answer practically writes itself for a player on the Yukon Malamutes. We would select a chicken! No I'm kidding, we would most obviously get a badass Malamutes, but probably a pair of them so they have a friend and another buddy to play with. The breed would be Alaskan Malamute and we would name the pair Gretzky & Jagr. They will most certainly hang around the arena and training facility where they'd primarily live. They'll have dedicated "cubbies" in the locker room w/ their food and beds. They'll even travel with the team when they go to play out of town on the bus or plane! As far as taking care of it, we'd get a dedicated person whose sole job was to attend to the pups and make sure they had all the care and love they possibly need. Going home every week with a different player to a different house would be stressful, so thats why they would live at the training facility. But they would get acclimated to being personable and meeting people very early on in their lives. It would be an awesome opportunity to highlight the team, but to also visit kids in hospitals, seniors in assisted living and hype fans up everywhere!