This is a crazy story that you would have to try real hard to make up. When I first read it on someone's twitter yesterday I thought it was a fraternity prank. Being a former athlete I can’t imagine my equipment just going up in flames. Some of these guys have to start all over again. This has to be hard for the goaltenders, who most of us at time think they are nuts anyways. This is the equivalent of a golfer being given new clubs the day before a big golf tourney the Masters. I can’t imagine trying to break in new skates and having to use them in a game when they aren’t broken in yet.
Here's an inventory, and some are a bit comical:
Zidlicky-Good
Johnsson-Good
Zanon-Lost a ton, but not his knee brace
Stoner-Skates and pants only saved
Koivu-Everything lost but skates
Kobasew-Good
Havlat--Everything lost, but they found a set of skates he used to wear in Chicago and put on a new blade
Brunette-Good
Ebbett-Everything gone
Miettinen-Everything gone
Clutterbuck-Everything gone
Brodziak-Good
Boogaard-Good
Belanger-Good
Hnidy--Everything gone, and two left skates burned
Scott-Everything gone
Earl-Everything gone
Backstrom-Everything gone
Harding-Everything gone
Sheppard--Everything gone, except, get this, his contacts and a mouthguard
Schultz-Everything gone, had skates picked up at his house that he wears in pond hockey and he went to Play It Again sports to buy shoulder pads he likes
Latendresse-Good
[Russo's Rants]
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