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Date Posted: 08:33:22 01/15/04 Thu
I love Rhett's correction... too funny! Ive seen him with a beard, and he DOES indeed look like a 70s "adult-film actor" - hehehehehe...
Big hairy deal
Flames use moustaches as "a good bonding thing"
Scott Cruickshank
Calgary Herald
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The Calgary Flames are, quite literally, bristling with anticipation. Those dark smudges they were wearing on their upper lips Saturday?
Well, they've blossomed into full-fledged moustaches or, at least, full-fledged attempts at moustaches.
The challenge goes back to last week when Stephane Yelle's foray into the world of cookie dusters, immediately mocked and soon aborted, stirred up an idea for a contest.
The Flames, on the road at that point, threw down their razors as a team.
On Feb. 1, a "winner" will be declared. At that point, they'll look like a scruffy collection of red-clad porn stars.
"Uh, adult-film actors," corrected Rhett Warrener. "It's the year of the moustache."
Yeah, but that year was, oh, 1975.
"But it's a healthy distraction, in a sense," said Jamie McLennan. "We've played a lot of hockey lately . . . so it's just some fun within the room. A good bonding thing. And it's nothing disrespectful to people who have moustaches."
Nevertheless, there are certain rules -- no goatees, no fu manchus, no handlebars. Just a straight old-school moustache. And, as Krzysztof Oliwa discovered, no soul patches. Jarome Iginla vetoed that venture.
"I'm really struggling," moaned Oliwa, wandering around the dressing room, his face smeared with shaving cream. "This was a big decision."
Not surprisingly, there's a wide variety of progress. Warrener's plumage is moving along nicely. Yelle won't need much time for his soup-strainer.
Others? Not so.
"Oleg Sapyrkin, poor guy. Maybe by February of 2005, he'll have one," chortled McLennan. "Josh Green, we think he looks like Dr. Phil. That's pretty cool."
Even Craig Conroy, stuck at home with a knee injury during the decision-making process, has jumped on board.
"When you're not a part of it -- I haven't been playing a lot and I haven't been around the boys -- and they come back and say, 'We're going to have moustaches,' then I guess we're going to have moustaches," said Conroy. "I don't know who came up with the idea."
Three unnamed players will serve as judges and will award an undisclosed prize for unspecified criteria.
"These should be pretty good in a couple weeks," said Andrew Ference. "It's a group thing, a team thing. We've already got the hard hat. The moustache and the hard hat go hand in hand.
"The grind-it-out, bring-a-lunchpail kind of thing."
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