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***blix900*** · 05-30-2022, 10:08 AM

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***hhh81*** · 05-30-2022, 10:18 AM

Not only does he have it in him, but M’Baku Olubori thrives in the role of pest. The scary thing is, he’s also 6-5 and built like a reinforced bomb shelter. He’ll get in your head, whether through a massive check (or just the threat thereof!) or by playing mind games. Growing up in Abuja, Nigeria, Baku is a veteran of the old head school of street ball/soccer pitch trash talk. When he’s on the ice, his mouth is always moving trying to get opponents off their game. His favorite trick is to find the most insecure finesse player on the other team and let in to them consistently and unerringly. When he finds something that works he’ll keep running with it and variations on it to get that player’s mind off hockey and onto how insufferable he is. Obviously he’s not above a late hit, sly trip, or well-placed elbow. He’s not a dirty player… but he certainly would never win the Ron Bolt either.

The rival he’s found the most success messing with is Nevada Battleborn’s Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson… or as he likes to call him, CLOWN BOY. Baku picked up on LEG’s insecurity and has feasted upon it since their first days while Baku was a DFA in Nevada. While it seems Lias developed a thicker skin to the nickname over the last few seasons, it’s clear Baku can still divert some of the young Swede’s attention when the Elk and Battleborn face off.

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**leafsftw1967** · 05-30-2022, 10:46 AM

Player Prompt Written Task: Mats Marner has never really been a pest during his SHL career not taking many penalties and not throwing around the body to much in terms of hits. Instead Mats Manrer frustrates opponents by making them pay of the powerplay and scoring lots of goals in general. Last season Marner was the SHL league leader in goals putting up over fifty and then again this season Marner has continued to terrorize opponents with his goal scoring abilities currently leading the league in goals once again. Marner has never really liked playing against the physical pest players of the SHL which is why he likes when his linemates and teammates like Theo Kondos who take care of the pest with their more physical defensive style game play. Ultimately Marner will not change his game play style and continue to utilize his offensive flashy talents to put up points instead to get under the skin of opponents

G2019 · 05-30-2022, 10:49 AM

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***RAmenAmen*** · 05-30-2022, 10:50 AM

Hockey Prompt

Taking a slight step back from the realm of simulated hockey and into the world of real hockey, I've got to admit that I love a good pest in the game. A well thought out chirp or well-timed physical play absolutely *can* change the course of a game, as long as it doesn't become an obsession that takes away from the play. I can't even hate on someone who gives me the old snowman maneuver, as long as I get to jab back at them when it's my turn. All of that being said, the hockey community has an ugly history letting the "pest" role turn into dirty plays with intent to injure, or with letting players harass others with personal attacks and slurs in the name of "chirping". As players, fans, or generally members of the hockey community, it's our responsibility to make sure that line is as clear as possible, and have zero tolerance (on or off the ice) for behavior that attacks, belittles, or otherizes vulnerable members of this community. Then, and only then, can we go out and hit each other with wild abandon.

Matteo · 05-30-2022, 11:58 AM

You'd better watch out for when Mat Smith gets frustrated. Some players chirp, some play with even more of an edge, and some are downright dirty. None of this compares, though, to Mat Smith. No, when he's upset, he gets tickley. If you get into his crease or go hard into the net you'd better watch out, because before you know it, you're laughing uncontrollably. Sweaty armpits, stinky feet, he doesn't care. He'll take the skate right off your foot. Sometimes, when he's playing against rivals, he keeps a feather in his glove for exactly this purpose. This is seemingly very effective, as 73.6% of the time, if his team goes down by three or more, the other team doesn't score again for the rest of the game since nobody wants to get close to his crease. And since it's not against any rules the crazy bastard gets away with it too. Players have tried taking things into their own hands, snowing him, firing high slap shots, even pulling his helmet off and feeding him haymakers, but it never seems to do the trick as at some point or another they end up laughing uncontrollably.

***golden_apricot*** · 05-30-2022, 12:33 PM

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Seymour · 05-30-2022, 12:50 PM

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Kyamprac · 05-30-2022, 01:49 PM

Burke participated in a lot of pranks back in the day, but left most of that behind when she joined the SHL. That isn't to say she's a total killjoy - she'll still help her teammates do silly things to have some fun between games or amazing victories. It's just that instead of staying up late to rearrange hotel rooms, fill water bottles with vodka, or supergluing equipment to things, she's just helping her teammates with their chirps or dumping water on their coach after a big win or something a little more innocent like that. While she still enjoys getting involved in some tomfoolery to pester opponents from time to time, she really just lacks the time to do it. The time she spent in the juniors pranking her teammates and opponents is now taken up by more training as the Panthers continue to work hard to climb up the ranks of success and fight their way closer to a championship.

*sköldpaddor* · 05-30-2022, 03:04 PM

second prompt: Lias is not really a pest, per se, but he does have a personality that tends to rub people the wrong way sometimes. He is very proud of his own skills, and it has taken him a few seasons in the SMJHL to develop some healthy humility when it comes to his own ideas about his own talent level. People learned early on that he wasn't somebody they wanted to prank because he didn't really have a sense of humor about it and would usually not respond well. This season, though, he kind of opened up a little when it came to messing around with his teammates, because he's been working really hard at being more of a leader on the team, and while you wouldn't necessarily expect pranking to be a leadership thing, being willing to clown around with the other folks on the team has done wonders for his reputation. He's a lot more fun to be around now than he used to be, and his willingness to participate in the silliness on and off the ice is evidence of that fact.

*Otrebor13* · 05-30-2022, 03:05 PM

Theo Morgan has made himself a reputation for playing hockey the right way, and being a good one at that. Scoring goals and willing his team past opponents is what he does best. However, that being said, if being a pest is needed, there are a few ways you could go about it to get a player/team off their game.

Firstly, anything around their goalie/crease. Teams are very protective/defensive when it comes to their goalie, and the best way to get under someone’s skin is to be around the goalie a lot. You don’t want to run the goalie or hit him, but always be around the crease, don’t move much, just get in the way. You’ll see the minute you’re in the crease the others will be all over you, they’ll start to chirp you and now you’re in their heads.

Secondly you could always just play a little tough, push a lot, pin players to the boards and just be a nuisance when you’re around them. This will surely get them to retaliate and/or talk back to you. Now you’ve shifted their focus on you and not the game. Just like that, you can try to get the game turned around in your favour, who knows, they may even take a penalty.

*NorwegianDemon* · 05-30-2022, 04:09 PM

HOCKEY PROMPT: I definitely think these kinds of interactions have a place in the game. There is nothing wrong with trying to distract your opponents with small talk or little distracting gestures. Of course, there is a line that shouldn’t be cross and that I think most players understand that and are still able to distract their opponents quite effectively by only speaking about hockey-related things. Some people will get mad, which is usually the objective you are trying to pursuit, but to some others, it will add a extra motivation to prove young wrong, which means it is also possible that these small mischief can backfire on you. One of my favorite mischiefs to do on the ice is to give players of the other team positive reinforcement and hoping they became complacent with their actual performance so I can step it up a notch and caught them off guard. I usually do this by telling them they did a good play and by giving them small taps on the bum.

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***_Blitz_*** · 05-30-2022, 04:35 PM

Shiny Shuckle has it in him to be a pest, absolutely, but I don't think he realizes that the behaviors are bad. He learned to play street hockey and be a goalie from a bunch of kids in New York, so there wasn't exactly a concept of goalie interference and they tended to laugh off when he would use one of his attacks to send someone out of his crease and into the boards. Now that he's in Colorado, the praise is tenfold for his shenanigans, which have expanded to include tripping, stick-pulling, and using Yawn to put challengers to sleep. It's doubled-down with the local hype around team tough guy Not Deadly. Shuckle is gaining a reputation for being difficult to play against, with his inhuman flexibility and reflexes and the ways he works to keep opposing players from his net. Unfortunately, his pestly ways often distract Shuckle, and he tends to allow at least 4 goals per game.

***Sburbine*** · 05-30-2022, 04:39 PM

Hockey Prompt:
Talking back and trying to get in your opponent's head is just part of hockey and most competitive sports for that matter. You got to be able to psych out the other players and take them off their A game to give yourself a competitive advantage. Smack talk seems to be the best way to do it in most sports and definitely the most common, American football has tried to move away from that with the new taunting penalty but no one seems to like that rule. In hockey specifically you can add in snowing goalies and other such antics to annoy/piss off the other team. There are plenty of players that toe the line and even go far past it which shouldn't be allowed, anything violent or can cause a potential injury should obviously be illegal and the downright strange stuff like licking your opponents (everyone knows who I'm talking about) should certainly be outlawed.

***Leafs4ever*** · 05-30-2022, 05:51 PM

Hockey Prompt:

I think the mischief that some players have polarizing opinions and it depends entirely on what side you happen to be on when it happens. If you're the type of player to engage in these shenanigans, you absolutely think it has a place in the game. Hockey is a game of inches and if there's any chance to get your opponent feeling off, or annoyed, you take that chance as long as you aren't crossing a line. On the other side of the coin, if you aren't the type to do that stuff, you probably think it's juvenile and shouldn't be happening in a professional setting. Those players would probably agree, though, that gaining any kind of leg up on the opponent is huge if you have that chance. Honestly, I think they agree with the premise, but just can't be that type of player to do it. I'm sure if they could, they would. If you can get your competition feeling off their game or making them uncomfortable, you take that.

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