Does your player play pranks on their teammates? If so, what kinds of pranks do they pull on them? How do your teammates react to these pranks? If your player isn’t the type to pull pranks themselves, are they the target of any pranks? Do they fall for them if they can be avoided? Feel free to describe how your player pranks their teammate or their reaction to getting pranked themselves!
There are legends that reside within the Montreal locker room of pranks or friendly hazing that has gone on in the past. Each year, the new rookies find themselves subjected to these objects of tradition and each year, the veterans of the team try to find ways to one-up each other or to try and establish a legend in their own right. Through his entire rookie season, Peanut was "gifted" nutcrackers in his locker before every game. It is implied like "break a leg" for a Broadway show cast member, but since he's a humanoid peanut, obviously nutcracking is the obvious choice. There was one legendary prank however that he still hasn't pieced together: Who sent him the baby alligator, and more importantly WHY was he sent the baby alligator. He recalls someone else in the league stating that they have been "gatored" but when Peanut inquired, it always referenced an internet meme.
He still has this baby alligator chilling in his bathtub and no idea what to do with it.
Option 2: I often use tricks and dirty tactics in game. It’s not something I’m proud of but I can’t stop because it makes me preform better. I’m superstitious and if I stop I might suddenly become a terrible player. One of my favorite dirty plays I do is embellishment. I feel like I can always draw an easy penalty on every dive I make. One time I was playing a game and an opponent stood in front of me. I speared him with my stick and he turned around and slashed at me, so I dove to the ground and pretended he seriously hurt me. Easy power play and advantage for that one. Another trick I often use is an absolute classic that people always fall for. It’s known as the “Bigfoot maneuver” when an opposing skater is on a breakaway, I’ll yell “oh my god dude look behind you it’s Bigfoot.”. They’ll turn around and break their own ankles looking for Bigfoot. Absolute classic.
Cormier isnt really the kind of player to try and think of tricks to get the upper hand. He knows he has a lot of raw skill and an incredible amount of speed and always tries to use that to his advantage. He does get called out a lot for embellishments when he falls, but people dont realize the speed at which the game is played. When you move that fast it doesnt take a lot to lose balance and Cormier has that happen a lot. He's fast, light on his feet and can have some difficulty staying upright through minor contact. I don't really think there's anything the league needs to do to crack down on trickery though. Anything thats clearly an infraction will be called as such and a lot of these tricks really dont fall into that category. The onus in these situations is on the players to be concious of the common tricks and to find ways to not get beat by them when they happen during a game.
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. ... There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
Oliver Castillon is a huge proponent of the idea that pranks should not be hurtful to anyone in any way. In general, he's not really one to pull pranks anyway and greatly prefers good-natured ribbing or running in-jokes.
That said, many seasons ago, one of the games was supposed to have Panthers rubber ducks as a promotion a item. For imagery, it was a rust orange panther wearing the teal home jersey and aviator sunglasses, and then crammed into the shape of a rubber duck. They also wail more like rubber chickens when pressed instead of a small squeak. Well, unfortunately, the game was cancelled due to a power outage and the ducks were forgotten until Oliver found them and made a pranking game out of distributing them to his teammates, coaches, and training staff. For weeks, anyone was liable to find or be passed a duck at any time. He even somehow managed to get in and out of the GM's office to put a duck in his chair.
A few seasons down the line, it's now a rite of passage to get "Duckied". After the first few, every encounter has been different, and he's even taken to learning magic tricks and sleight of hand.
08-19-2024, 10:59 AM(This post was last modified: 08-20-2024, 12:25 PM by Mongoose87. Edited 1 time in total.)
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Elaina Beneski has capital Z ZERO reservations about dirty tricks, cheating, toeing the line, or any other sort of generally underhanded behavior, as long as it brings the wins and the goals. In peewee, she once put whiteout all over the opposing bench to try and make them woozy. In high school, she hired a kid from shop class to slightly malform an opponent's skate blades with a blow torch. That one had a lot of blowback.
On the ice, she's mastered this maneuver where she sticks out the butt end of her stick ever so slightly, just before being hit, so that it collides directly with the opponent's private parts. It only gets caught very occasionally - by the refs. Opponents seem to notice every time.
She once held an opponent's wife's hand in a jar of acid. At a party. There wasn't nearly a much advantage to that, but boy were they every pissed.
In every locker room there are usually some things going on to lighten the mood. The grind of the season can be very stressful so it's important to try and bring some fun and humour into it. Something that has been happening in locker rooms since the dawn of time is pranks. It's unavoidable, at a certain point you're going to be a victim of a prank or the one administering it. Pranks can a great way to break the tension as long as they're harmless and not destructive. It's a fine line you need to find.
In my rookie year I was on the receiving end of a few pranks. There would be many times I would put my equipment on and get a hand and foot full of shaving cream. A favourite of one of my teammates was to unscrew my water bottle lid so that when I went for a drink it would burst off and drench my face completely in water. Harmless stuff, but kept the mood light during the drudges of practice. I plan to be on the sending side of these to the rookies that enter our team. You have to keep the chain going.
Quote:How does your player feel about using tricks to gain an advantage in play? If they enjoy tricks, what sort of nasty things do they do to get their advantages for their team? Embellishment? Dirty hits while the refs aren’t looking? If they aren’t keen on those sorts of tricks what could the league do to minimize these tricks from happening in games? How does your player prevent other players from doing these tricks against them?
McLovin is no saint, on or off the ice. So he's got no issues with skirting the rules and crossing the line on occasion to gain an advantage. After all, he is a defenseman in the SHL. Embellishment? Always if it helps him get a call that gives his team the advantage, or if he's out on a date and he needs to close. Dirty hits? Never, you can skirt the rules without being an asshole, but hard hits or ones that may cross the line? He's on defense, he's a punisher, and he's going to make it known he's a force to be reckoned with, so of course. Now, is the league against such things? Of course they are. The league is against everything.... but its what makes hockey hockey, and not soft like other leagues have become. So if they want to keep ratings up and views coming, they'll let the skaters do their thing.... unless its dirty!
Squidwardo has taken steps to clean up his game since being in juniors, in juniors he was a little reckless and wouldn't care if his elbow came up a little high or the butt end of his stick caught someone "accidentally", slashing someone in the back of the legs was fairly commonplace as well. He averaged 53 penalty minutes per season, leaving his team shorthanded at least once every 2 games but has taken steps to improve that in the SHL. Over the past two seasons he has averaged just 1 penalty every 4 games, a major improvement, he figured that with Seattle having so many rookies he probably shouldn't be taking a ton of penalties and putting them in tough situations. Now he just tries to use more offensive tricks and dekes in order to generate some offense. With the Argonauts struggling to score goals in some big moments, Squidwardo has been a big fan of using the Toe Drag Release shot, or the between the legs deke to simply try to break into the offensive zone. Another major move he tries is a little flip in between the stick and legs of his opponents and he tries to burn by them to get a chance on net. He's been doing that more this season and we will have to wait and see if it pays off in the end.
Written Option 1: Does your player play pranks on their teammates? If so, what kinds of pranks do they pull on them? How do your teammates react to these pranks? If your player isn’t the type to pull pranks themselves, are they the target of any pranks? Do they fall for them if they can be avoided? Feel free to describe how your player pranks their teammate or their reaction to getting pranked themselves!
Sheamus loves to play pranks on his teammates you know most of the time he is in the locker room throwing beer at people or he's on the ice and just you know coming up behind them and giving them a good Old slew foot. So how do his teammates react to this well obviously on the wolves were a wolf pack so everybody is one big family so they just go right ahead and shoot him back a good old sleuth foot or get him with some different pranks you know he's been sitting on the ice before while the whole tank was dunked on him he's been given free meal vouchers to restaurants that don't exist you know even though he's been in New England for many years people still find new ways to just go at it and really give him some good pranks. whenever Seamus gets pranked back he takes it in good faith you know prank is a prank as a prank.
Pranks on teammates are usually an off-limits thing for Ju-gong at the practice facility. While on the ice he is generally all business, working hard and trying to make sure that others do the same. Of course, inside the locker room people can’t really control themselves when it comes to pranks and teasing, and as such Ju-gong might be the recipient of some lighthearted fun. Outside of the locker room and in day to day life, he is much more likely to engage in random acts of mischief to liven things up. Something he particularly enjoys when eating out with teammates is to order in Korean, and put something on all their plates they didn’t request. Generally, this gets a good reaction as the appearance of random vegetables or squid tentacles comes as a surprise to everyone. Outside of this, he only engages in simple lighthearted things for fun, and would never do a serious prank that would cause someone real panic or worry.
Oh man, how do you NOT be just a little dirty as one of the top defensemen in the minor league? There are plenty of instances where I, or Cadmael, might over embellish a hit here and there to gain a few extra penalty minutes. But as a defender, there are a lot of times where sometimes the actions that he takes might border on the line of a penalty and so some of the skill of being a good defender is obfuscating those penalties from the refs. A cheap hit on the star forward of the other team, or maybe just a cheeky shove into the boards to loosen up the puck or just remind someone of their fragile mortality. Sometimes, just the threat or possibility of getting smacked around is enough to make people play much worse than they normally do. Maybe I'll even hit a ref, try to stop me.
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