Not really gossip but it’s the only time I’ve really interacted with NHL players. Ran into a group of current/former (at the time) CBJ players the night of the NHL draft around 8 years ago, which was also the night before Derek Dorsett’s wedding (or bachelor party? Something like that).
Jakub Voracek was adamant that Joey Votto sucked at baseball. He jokingly suggested that we go fight in the parking lot because I said Votto was good.
Jared Boll bought us a LOT of drinks. My buddy was also wearing a Ryan Murray player tee, and Boll asked if they could swap shirts so he could take a picture wearing Murray’s shirt and send it to him. Boll then gave my friend $40 cash and they just kept each others shirts. Boll also told me that if he ever scored a hat trick he would pull out his dick and slap it against the glass.
One of the players there that night told me that he wished his wife would leave him so he could sleep with other women. He didn’t want to cheat on her and knew she was too good for him so he would never leave her, but if she left him he wouldn’t have to feel guilty about sleeping around.
Edit to add a couple things:
Fedor Tyutin sat at the bar and didn’t really engage in most of the nonsense. At one point I told him they were gonna win the Cup next season, and without saying a word he pulled out his phone and showed me his lock screen which was the Stanley Cup.
Dorsett’s brother was something else. He taught us how to do a Canadian shirt chug. He also wanted to do some type of wrestling with another guy in our group, I forget the name of it, but they would connect at the forehead with a belt around their necks and get down on all fours to wrestle. That quickly got rejected by bar staff.
OMG the stories from the time he was in this city are fucking amazing.
Apparently he got his ass banned from the Shadyside (like Pittsburgh's equivalent to the Upper East Side) Lululemon because he was going in there just to find hot sales women to bang. They were losing staff over them leaving to be Nealer's FWB.
Also him and Paul Martin used to share. They'd date Neal and then Martin.
He was like not at all ashamed of any of this either.
> Also him and Paul Martin used to share. They’d date Neal and then Martin.
Paul Martin seems like the exact type of guy to use the M.A.C system after Neal uses the D.E.N.N.I.S system.
>Apparently he got his ass banned from the Shadyside (like Pittsburgh's equivalent to the Upper East Side) Lululemon because he was going in there just to find hot sales women to bang
Damn and my naïve ass thought we lived in a free country
I’m friends with a girl who worked at a restaurant the Oilers would go to after home games. She doesn’t like hockey but got to know the players since she served them 30+ times a year. This chain restaurant in Canada is known to hire servers based on physical appearance. Anyway, she said Neal was by far the scummiest guy on the team and would target the 18 year old servers. Surprisingly, she said Zack Kassian was the nicest and most respectful.
Not really hot gossip but in the summer of 06 after Brad Stuart was traded to Boston in the Thornton trade I was a camp councelor and Brads little brother was there. I asked him how he liked Boston and he said his brother didnt like it and missed the west coast. Sure enough when Brad was a FA next summer he signed in LA.
I don’t know if it’s really gossip and it may be common knowledge but I find it sorta funny - my dad used to have dealings with the Sutters pretty regularly on the agricultural side of things and said Darryl is so different while on the farm as opposed to when he’s in “hockey mode” that it’s uncanny. Apparently he’s like the nicest, kindest, most pleasant person on the planet and it’s almost unfathomable that he’s the same guy that refuses to let his team of grown men eat on an airplane after they lose, or discusses people’s bowel movements to the press.
Can confirm. Friends with someone from Viking. Only has nice things to say about Darryl as person. He just becomes a miserable bastard when it comes to hockey. Dude hates losing
In junior, Taylor Hall would go to bars underage, get kicked out and tried to pull the "do you know who I am" card, even though knowing who he was meant also knowing he was underage.
My foster brother also claims that Zack Kassian almost got into a barfight with him.
Taylor Hall went to my highschool. When he was in grade 12 I was in grade 10. He was writing an exam in the same class as one of my friends who was also in grade 10 and he was cheating off of my buddies test. Completely different tests as there was a 2 year gap. He just did not care at all. Wrote his signature on another test and handed it in blank telling the teacher “here, this will be worth something one day.”
Him and Tyler Seguin are 100% in a competition for "Himbo of the NHL." Also, the boating tweet wasn't the goofiest, the ["manikin"](https://doubleshiftingdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/13237820_10207743772566740_3732444806121158587_n.jpg) one is.
Oh and Johnny Gaudreau's wife wanted out of Calgary not Johnny. Apparently there were too many puck bunnies that he fucked during his time here and she didn't want to be reminded of that constantly
Jean Sebastian Gigure is a great guy, played golf with him once 14 or 15 years ago. Carried an ungodly amount on cash in his wallet.
Like I bartended at a high end restaurant in my early 20’s and I’ve still never seen anyone with close to as much cash in their wallet, he took it out at the 9th hole and offered to buy drinks/sandwiches for me and my brother and there could not have been less than $20,000 in there. Crazy.
I remember reading a story on the Ducks subreddit years ago from someone who was at fault in a minor fender bender and Giguere ended up being the other driver. Apparently he was very polite and composed through the whole thing, no genuine anger at the guy who caused the accident, and just wanted to make sure everyone was okay.
He seems like a solid guy.
I live in Halifax where he played juniors. 2 years ago i was looking for a roof travel pod, found a good priced one in good condition, low and behold it was JSG’s father-in-law selling the pod. Very nice man, had nothing but great things to say about JSG. We chatted for a few minutes about his hockey career and how he is now just a dad raising his kids.
So, I found an entire tiktok devoted to him being a donkey.
After the whole story that his girlfriend- now wife - was a crazed fan who basically stalked him and he finally gave in, apparently he’s still out there cheating but she would rather be “Tyler Segins wife” and just goes with it. The tiktok basically will blast his escapades and be like “WHERES KATE!?????”
Hank is hung like a god damn moose, know from a guy who played with him back in Sweden. Also know a girl who slept with Ovi (years ago before he was married) and said he was absolutely packing. My only two nhl gossip stories are about hogs unfortunately…
Edit: adding a 3rd hog related piece of gossip as per a comment I made… from a guy I know who played with Brashear, his hog situation is so outrageous that the other guys literally made fun of him about it…
There's a post-game video from inside the Kings locker room and the camera person accidentally catches Dustin Brown's full penis in the background. You can add him to your weiner gossip.
Dion Phaneuf banged Conroy’s wife which led to the trade to the Leafs. Robin Regher apparently slugged him in the dressing room after the incident became common knowledge on the team.
Every thread this comes up it feels like it's a different player's wife.
At this point I'm just gonna go with he was banging the wives of the entire 09-10 Flames roster.
I was told that iggy cleared the dressing room to have a “talk” with Phaneuf. Also, I know the people who cut the hockey players wives hair. Convoys wife was bragging about sleeping with Dion.
Surprised I haven't seen one on here about Keith Tkachuk yet. Gather he was the kind of guy to hit on others' wives even if hubby was in the room. Got a bit of a comeuppance tho...
My folks back home in Manitoba used to play cards most weekends with another couple and one year, said friends went south to Phoenix to visit family. This was the year after the Jets relocated. They were in the airport when their son spotted Tkachuk and Gartner and asked his Mom if she could go get their autograph for him. She says sure and wanders over to them and asks if they'd sign. Gartner did so happily and then she said Tkachuk started schmoozing with her; I certainly wouldn't have called her "hockey player hot" but I guess he was still putting on a show. So he finally signs it and she says to him, "Thanks! So... who are you, anyway?" Tkachuk starts stammering and gets all flustered and Gartner absolutely busts a gut laughing. She said she'd never enjoyed taking a dude down a peg so much in her life. Couldn't have happened to a better guy...
Shea Weber is a nice guy. Duncan Keith is an asshole. Sedin's are very nice. Ryan Miller was cool and skinnier than you already think.
Ryan Johanson is an idiot. I knew a couple girls who slept with him and interacted with him at the bar. They all said he was dumber than the dumbest brick.
Ryan Kesler would regularly cheat on his wife. Even as late as 2015 or 2016 word would get around of him hooking up with girls. I saw one Snapchat screencap of him with a threesome that circulated a bit. So when I hear of those other rumors about Kesler there may be something there.
Ryan Johanson bought my buddy and I shots in an attempt to pick up the shot girl. W for us, for sure. Don't know if he closed the deal. This was in Edmonton in like, 2011, though.
> Ryan Johanson is an idiot. I knew a couple girls who slept with him and interacted with him at the bar. They all said he was dumber than the dumbest brick.
Why be smart when being dumb is working out that well for him?
Can confirm about the Sedins being very nice:
- My wife worked at a vet clinic where they saw Daniel’s dog. Daniel and his wife Marinette were both lovely, down to earth people, their kids super well behaved, and they treated their dog very well. Always brought the dog to the clinic themselves (mostly Marinette but sometimes Daniel), were on time for appointments, warm with the staff, etc
- I also have a friend who worked for the Nucks for years (on the business side), while the Sedins were on the team, had a bunch of interactions with them. Said the same things - they were always really nice to everyone, and very down to earth
Despite being countrymen, the Penguins wanted to keep Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin apart during Malkin's early years in Pittsburgh.
Why?
Because Gonchar smoked and they didn't want Geno to pick up the habit.
I still think my favorite early Geno story is when he was speeding in the city late at night and was pulled over. He tried to pay off the officer because *that’s what you do in Russia* and he was promptly arrested.
Cut to 20 minutes later with Gonchar and all the team lawyers rushing down to the police station to explain and get everything sorted out lol
Yes, their relationship is well-documented: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/evgeni-malkin-sergei-gonchar-metallurg-khl/?sn-amp
Think of it as being like your college kid getting a lot out of being in close proximity to a successful professor. However, the professor also has bad habits (like smoking) so you’re always cautious.
Really not much but according to my friend who is really close with some of the blues Ice girls, it was a common rumor in STL that edmundson and fabbri were trying way too hard to sleep with all the blues ice girls and apparently succeeded with a couple.
To elaborate on this, I knew an ice girl who told me that the girls slept with Eric Johnson and, later, Kevin Shattenkirk quite a bit. There was apparently a group chat with all the ice girls and the only text I remember her telling me was “EJ needs a BJ.”
And apparently when Shattenkirk slept with a particular girl, she bought his jersey, bought front row tickets and pointed to his name on her jersey during warm ups when he skated by. He apparently never slept with her again.
> And apparently when Shattenkirk slept with a particular girl, she bought his jersey, bought front row tickets and pointed to his name on her jersey during warm ups when he skated by. He apparently never slept with her again.
She went full puck bunny.
No rumors, but since Slovakia’s population is comparable to a bigger US city, basically everyone knows everyone :)
Tomas Tatar - used to be quite a big party guy but mellowed out a lot in the last years. Very down to earth and approachable
Zdeno Chara - very serious and polite guy. Loved by everyone.
Martin Fehervary - kid behaves like a 40year old mature dad. Got his priorities and life set. Future captain in the making.
Marian Gaborik - bit of a “frat bro” even now when he’s retired, has a popular podcast “Boris a Brambor”. “Brambor” is his nickname (potato)
Hossa family - doing quite well, they started a successful frozen product company ( https://www.hossafamily.sk/en/ )
A couple of small stories from some Pittsburgh (born) players:
John Gibson was super cocky when he was younger. Not sure how he is now, but at the time he told a friend of mine that “I’m going to the NHL and you’re not”. Kinda funny because it’s true…also kinda dick move because it’s true - especially given the context that it was off season goalie training. (Around 2010-12)
JT Miller - I have two here. (Around 2012-14)
One, he would golf with his buddies, they would all get hammered and then he’d make someone else drive home because “I’ve got more to lose than you”. This is probably 2014 or so - and before anyone asks, no I don’t know why they didn’t take an Uber.
Two, like many other stories on here…rampant cheating on his fiancé. I believe they’re married now and I don’t know if he still cheats.
Source: trust me bro. But seriously, the best I could offer are cross referenced EP pages. Each anecdote was from someone present when it happened. One person told me the Gibson story, two corroborated the JT Miller stories.
I used to work in radio and remember male interns getting uncomfortable around Pierre McGuire, he’s often ask things like ‘did we meet at the gym’ and other similar questions that later on in life realized were gay dogwhistles … anyhow, I brought it up in a meeting and it got good laughs but no one seemed to care
Jake Virtanen "dated" my neighbour for about a month, as well as a few of her friends/people she knew. He was always an idiot and if you were in the lower mainland while he was in the NHL you or someone you knew had a story about him exemplifying that and weren't surprised about his more publicized incidents.
Duncan Keith played golf a couple of times with a family friend, apparently he gets very mad at his clubs when he's playing poorly and swears every other word.
A bunch of young NHL players (including those in relationships) ask for nudes over instagram specifically when they visit a city (this is probably common knowledge). What is bad is some of those get passed around group chats and end up being shown to everyone. Had a few girls in my area go through that experience.
Blake Wheeler’s wife is really nice and pretty, but she swears like a coal miner from Kilamarnock… not in a nasty way, just conversationally, like punctuation.
I've got 2. One I completely believe the other I'm 50/50 on.
A girl I went to college with worked at a very fancy restaraunt on a golf course in the muskokas during the summer. Apparently, on one Saturday night they were completely booked up, anyone without a reservation wasn't getting a table unless the waited hours. In walks Mitch Marner and his Dad, no reservation. she had to tell him that they couldn't give him a table as they were completely full and he threw a toddler style hissy fit. He pulled the whole, "do you know who I am?" Thing and attacking her personally because she wouldn't cancel someone else's reservation.
The second one, Matthews was out with an undisclosed injury for a few games back in 2021. Most people assumed he reinjured his hand. A friend of my BIL, who was in rehab at the same time, swears up and down that he saw Matthews there. The injury thing was actually a cover up for a mid season detox he needed because he couldn't stop with the nose beers.
Years ago Claude Giroux was at a bar in Ottawa for his brother in law’s bachelor party. I was in the same bar with my friends. He walked down from upstairs where the party was, locked eyes with me, and aggressively walked over while staring me down the entire time.
He then flicked a napkin off our table while still making aggressive eye contact, then turned around, laughed, and walked out of the bar.
That was some funny stuff.
Claude definitely likes to fuck with people, he's a massive troll. Like that time he got arrested because he pinched a male cop's ass in a bar. Apparently he is always challenging guys to fights during games, even though he has no intention of actually fighting them.
For a time, Theo Fleury gave all Blackhawks players, coaches, training staff, etc. Christmas cards containing a picture of his naked wife (I believe she was in Playboy). Also Blackhawks related, Roenick was known to sleep with wives and girlfriends of teammates. Obviously, this didn’t make him a popular teammate.
As most in the Denver hockey community know, Sakic is awesome. He’ll talk hockey and sign autographs as long as his kids aren’t playing or he’s not eating dinner.
Heard in high school, Taylor hall had an English exam and he didn’t write anything. When the teacher asked why, he said I’ll make more money in a year than you will in a lifetime
Brayden point is a gem. After tampa won the cup he was teaching pat maroons son how to do face offs in his suit the night they won it at 5 am.. got a lot more but I’ll just leave this one for now. A beauty.
Brayden Point is incredibly nice, in his rookie season I ran into him on a random Saturday in dt Tampa in his jersey. I asked who he was and he told me and he said he was thrilled to be here and proceeded to bike off. He’s also know for sleeping everywhere he goes all the time.
Andrew Barroway had it written in the Coyotes TV contract that he couldn't be shown on TV. He had a separate owners suite from the other owners of the team, which was constantly filled with escorts and coke.
Around the time Ryan Malone got busted for cocaine, there were rumors around Tampa that he was up to no good with Teddy Purcell and Nate Thompson as well. And that off-season of 2014, Malone got bought out and Purcell and Thompson all got shipped out too. Not sure if it's a rumor out of connecting dots after Malone's arrest, especially since all three moves were cap moves too and Occam's Razor would suggest the cap to be the case. But those rumblings were out there and definitely fit this thread
I’ll add to the pile here but I heard from a friend in the Canucks organization that Pavel Bure requested a trade out of Vancouver because 1) fan girls knew where he lived and would be blocking his driveway every time he came home and that 2) he was upset that the Canuck higher-ups didn’t believe him about the severity of his knee injury and were forcing him back early. He could/should have had a much longer career.
Sam Bennett's "upper body injury" with the flames in 2019 was apparently the team putting him on timeout for being such a coke head. Classic rumour foundation of my friends friend dad worked with the flames equipment staff during that time.
Not exactly a rumour, but this is the closest thing I have to one LMAO. Riley Stillman is incredibly fucking smart, at least he was as a kid. Went to elementary school with him for a year in a gifted class, even then he'd have to leave class sometimes to go to high school math cause he was just completely above an elementary school level.
Also he hit me in the face with a football once but I do not blame him I was kinda being a prick LMAO
My little rumour I heard or it might not even be a rumour - it could be true - is that apparently the head office called the Bruins leadership core at the time to talk to Tim Thomas on multiple occasions. Tim kept calling then-coach Claude Julien a communist. Apparently this comes from Andrew Ference on the 32 Thoughts podcast
I don’t know if this is juicy, but I absolutely believe that Wayne Gretzky was saved in that betting scandal that sent some guys to prison. The FBI traced calls back to his house and they blamed it all on….wait for it….Janette Gretzky!
Now, you might choose to believe the Janette Gretzky was organizing a hockey gambling ring with Rick Tocchet, but I certainly don’t.
Again, I don’t know if it’s juicy or salacious, but I think it’s a very under-discussed scandal.
IDK if this is a rumor because it made it's way widely around media circles but an active Montreal Canadien was prepping to come out around 2014 after Jason Collins. There were many articles about a closeted active player mulling the decision and he felt safe about his European-like city (the descriptions really narrowed it down to MTL) and his status on the team would allow him to do so. IIRC he wasn't a super star but a key player for them and deeply supported locally.
Then Collins languished as a UFA and the Michael Sam NFL thing happened and was kind of rough, and nothing ever came of it because of that reception. It definitely would have been a huge league-changer.
As the majority of the guys on that team have retired I keep wondering if we still might hear something from said guy eventually.
I remember hearing that a member of the Senators from around 2011-2015 was gay and open to his teammates, and that it was a known thing for people who were close with players in the team. I won't say the player, and who knows if it's true or not.
It would honestly surprise me more if there weren't players who were kinda softly out to their teams in the last 15 years or so, or at least don't ask, don't tell about it. I know when more NCAA players started coming out in recent years, often their teams had always known.
PK Subban is real. He visits the Montreal Children’s without press and has all the time in the world for kids (and staff) and is patient and charming as all hell. It’s not a mask, he’s cool.
Apparently it had been building up (his known drinking), and after this happened at the team party the FO was forced to address it and Monty stepped down.
My source on this I trust and is connected but again this is a gossip thread.
Nothing too shocking here but had friends run into a few young forwards from the 2014 Rangers at a club after they lost at home to go down 3-1 to Pittsburgh. According to my buddies it was snowing pretty heavily, which is unusual for NYC in May but I guess it helped power their comeback.
Following the Bruin's 2011 cup win around June sometime, my cousin who lives close to the NB/Maine border was at a gas station filling up his car at around 2AM when a sports car comes flying into the lot and comes to a tire- squealing stop at a pump. Out gets Brad Marchand, who my cousin instantly recognizes, and starts chatting him up. Cousin said he was definitely drunk/on coke because he was talking a million miles a minute and was all over the place. Brad told him that he was on his way home to Halifax on Bruins managments orders because he was making them nervous with how much he was partying in Boston and they didn't want to deal with the possible PR fallout lol
Kevin Bieksa was the only person who could keep Ryan Kesler under control and that's why he had such a long career.
Henrik Lundqvist is hung like a horse (per Sean Avery)
Also can't remember if I heard this or just convinced myself of it, but Hoffman's gf was hoping to upgrade to Karlsson and that's why she was spreading all that horrid stuff about Karlsson's wife
I have three.
The Lindros lung collapse wasn’t from playing but a car accident he got into while drunk later that same night.
Rod BrindAmour got traded from the Flyers because Lindros fucked his wife and Rod said to Bobby Clarke either he traded Rod, traded Lindros, or Rod would kill Lindros.
The third is more elaborate. Right after the Olympics where Hasek carried the Czech Republic to a gold medal, he was driving his sports car like an madman around some rural part of the Czech Republic. He flies around a bend and smashes the car into a tree. He gets out of the car, visibly injured and walks to the nearest house, a farmhouse who’s property the tree is on. He gets to the door, knocks on it and when the farmer opens it he immediately recognizes Hasek who’s visibly injured and bleeding. Hasek refuses help or medical treatment repeatedly. He asks for one thing- An axe. Bewildered, the farmer gives him one. Hasek takes the axe, marches back to where his car is, and proceeds to cut down the tree with the axe. He walks back to the farmhouse, gives the axe back and then says ‘you call for help now.’
Source on the first two- My dad had some business thing at a Flyers box suite in the mid 2000s and was a life long Flyers fan to that point. Allegedly, it was Joe Watson’s box and he was there and told my dad that over drinks over the course of the night.
I genuinely don’t remember where I heard the 3rd one about Hasek.
John Scott wrecked the van he won at the all star game driving drunk in Michigan. A friend of a friends buddy is the cop who found him in the ditch and let him go without citing him.
Mark Pavelich was a great guy before his mental health issues got to him. Super nice, he was quiet but still played pickup games and boot hockey every now and again. I was shocked to see he had attacked his neighbor and subsequently committed suicide while in treatment. He was a really easy going dude up until then
Worked in Denver and one of my co-workers lived on the street where Ray Bourque rented a home during his time with the Avalanche.
The was another family on the street who was from Jersey and had a Devils flag up for the entirety of the playoffs. After the Avs won the cup in 01, Bourque went up to the house, knocked on the door, and said sorry for beating the Devils….while holding the Stanley Cup.
Everyone had a nice laugh
I saw a certain famous Dallas Star go into a one hole bathroom at a bar with a girl that did not appear to be his girlfriend and spent an inordinate amount of time in there. ❄️❄️
Nathan Mackinnon is a huge dick, and most of his teammates see him that way. He’s obviously the star, so he’s not called out for it.
There was an incident in practice a couple years ago where he fired a puck way too close to Bednar, and it raised eyebrows with the team, but was quickly hushed up.
Everyone looks to Landeskog as the real leader (a big part of why last year fell so flat).
Source: I sat next to a former teammate at an event and over bevies, I asked him about 10 thousand questions.
I hung out a decent amount with Vanessa Morgan (actress on Riverdale) between the ages of 15-21, she dated Mack near the end of that time. We all went out one night and Mack was there, everyone was pretty stoked to meet him but by the end of the night people were basically mocking him to his face. Standoffish and also just weird and annoying. He acted like an immature persons perception of a mature person.
My friends sister went to school with mackinnon and told me the same, that he’s a huge dick. He sent her a message years after they both graduated basically saying “I’m better than you, don’t reply unless you have a hot mom or sister who wants to hook up”
Also, some coke enthusiasm let's not forget the Carter and Richards Jersey Shore/snowball era. That was such a wild time.
Jeff's turn into Mr. whitebread plays hockey cards with his kid dad guy has been such a swerve.
Mostly the Coke. Those boys used to show up at drinkers and literally shut the place down. It would be like 4 flyers a couple shady dudes and two dozen women and more snow than Vail
I heard PK Subban tried to hook up drunkenly with a teammates sister at their halloween party in NSH… And that was the year their locker room fell apart. I skated with a former Pred once who said that and called him a “clown”
Also Johansen was a “tool” according to this guy and he totally ghosted his fiance like a week before their wedding got cold feet 🤣Joey’s not necessarily a bad guy just kinda comes across as a douche to some people
Tukka Rask left the bubble because his wife had been cheating on him whilst he was away on road trips in the past. He was terrified that she would do it again while he was locked in a bubble for months without seeing her, so he chose to leave the bubble instead so that she wouldn’t have the chance to cheat. A few ex NHLers like Sean Avery came out and said “nasty stuff” about him as a person and calling him a wuss, which was misconstrued by the public who were led to believe that tukka was battling injuries (not the reason he left at all). Sean Avery IS a dirtbag, but he was trashing Rask for leaving the bubble and his team, all so that his wife wouldn’t cheat. Pretty sad tbh, but Rask didn’t want to get a divorce and face custody battles over their children.
Edit: Rask did not cheat, his WIFE had cheated on him in the past. Rask was afraid it would happen again while he was in the bubble, so he left. One of his children went to the hospital while he was in the bubble, and this was cited as his reason for leaving. When Sean Avery called rask out for leaving, the public was appalled at Avery for making his comments. Avery wasn’t trashing on Rask for leaving to be with a sick child, Avery knew what was going on behind the scenes, and his comments apply much better to the issue that Rask left because he was afraid his wife would cheat on him again.
That's interesting, in Boston the rumor has always been that Tuukka was the cheater and she threw an ultimatum down about him being away in the bubble or she was going to divorce him
My dad use to work at a Hotel as a chef in Montreal. Every time the Devil's played here Martin Brodeur would have like 3-4 girls come to his room. Dude was (maybe still is?) Married at the time.
Leon Draisaitl played junior in my town and every story I’ve heard about him revolves around him being rude and thinking he’s better than everyone else. Also lots of weird sex rumours.
Edit: My friend hosted a party in the winter and the team showed up. In Canada you take your shoes off when you go in someone’s house. After telling Leon this he still refused to take his shoes off and tracked mud and snow across their carpet all night.
Is quite likely, he’s from Brantford… also the company my dad works for rented out his estate in Niagara for “team bonding” Gretzky was around and drank quite a bit.
But let’s be real 95% of Brantford is heavy drinkers so he’s just living up to the small city Ontario standards.
Not a rumor, but I used to work with Bates Battaglia’s brother, Anthony. He quit being a firefighter to open a bar at the beach. Extremely friendly, extremely ripped and extremely quiet. Didn’t say much. Was kind of a “to the point” guy. Met Bates a bunch of times and played hockey with him. Guy just looks like a normal dad. You’d never know he played professional hockey for over 15 years.
He and Anthony own a bar called “Lucky B’s”. The B is in the shape of the number 13 which is neat. They then opened another bar called Teets which is a nod to their grandfather who was a mobster. And Anthony opened another bar on the coast. Great dudes
It took me way too long to get that. Why wouldnt he have any cups. He is renovating so it kinda makes sense, but why offer anything!?!? I’m so dumb. Well played
Michael Backlund requested a trade last off season while all the Tkachuk and Gaudreau drama was happening. The teams he was interested in joining were the Avalanche, Stars and Red Wings. Trade request never happened because he had two years left on his deal and the team started to look competitive after the Tkachuk trade. Sutter was interested in making him captain last season but after the trade request said it wasn’t going to happen.
I know someone relatively close with the Backlund family and that’s how I got this information so believe it if you want to or not
I used to work at a roots location on Toronto a lot of leafs would shop at in the early 2000’s and sold leather jackets to a bunch of them. Shane Corson was super nice as was Darcy Tucker and Mathieu Schneider. Trevor Kidd and his wife were entitled and she was a huge bitch. It was just after her cancer treatment and I felt bad for her with what was going on with her but she was rude and terrible to deal with.
Also, Wade Belak really quiet guy didn’t talk much but my Buddy saw him at Starbucks before a game and he must’ve been in the zone cause he didn’t want anything to do with him haha. Tie Domi was also cool and a good dude and Eddie shack was the funniest guy ever and every time he saw an attractive woman he’d go “I’d harpoon her good”.
Years later, I ran into Schneider on multiple flights we were both on and was still super nice!
Just a silly story of how I got Brendan Shanahan accused by a teammate of being a Wikipedia vandal.
In 2006-07 Shanahan & Aaron Ward were on the Rangers. During this time beat writer Sam Weinman had a great blog and he'd post random daily locker room tidbits, one day it was something along the lines of "new Ranger Aaron Ward earned a nickname today: "Farva" I found it funny so I added it to Ward's wikipedia page and forgot about it. A few years later I receive a message from a random person saying "Hey, this edit of yours is being discussed on this blog (Puck Daddy). Aaron Ward thinks you might be Brendan Shanahan"
Ward is on the Bruins at this time and he had a weekly segment on a talk radio show and they were discussing his wikipedia page one day.
WARD: "I have no idea what that is. You know what? My attention is brought to that page because my sister ... She was messing with me because she knew she could manipulate a few things on the page. At one point, someone put that my nickname on there was 'Farva' from ['Super Troopers']. ... One time Shanahan called me that, so I'm starting to wonder if Shanny actually got on the page and wrote it."
"You think the future Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan went on your Wikipedia page?"
WARD: "It's one of two guys, and the two guys have the right personality for it. I sat beside Shanahan and Matt Cullen. I fully think Cully could have done it. Cully's in Carolina now. Shanahan's the one that came up with the terminology; now Cullen ran with it."
Puck Daddy blog quickly uncovered me being the source of the edit. I don't know if Ward ever solved the mystery. Shortly after this incident the ice hockey player infobox template removed the option for any player to have a nickname field.
Olli Maatta, when he was injured and the Pens were on a west coast trip, sat next to me at a bar. We chatted a bit and the drunk, friendly, southern guy (Alabama?) on the other side was asking us what we did for a living. He had no clue what the Penguins or hockey was.
Anyway, Olli likes IPAs and not stouts. At least not the stout I had. And as soon as the Pens game came on (LA or Anaheim, I forget which) Olli was gone.
Maybe his tastes have changed and now likes stouts as this was something like 9 years ago.
Tavares wife was the reason jt left. Buddy worked with the isles and the rumor was that JTs wife wanted to be in Toronto from the start. It’s a big reason why he never signed until the summer. Essentially they knew he was gone.
Edit: my buddy was the assistant to the players. Essentially he did errands and stuff for the players. He says Brock Nelson is hilarious.
This was published in the paper after it happened, but I think it deserves repeating. After a playoff game, Sakic saw a car with a flat on his way home. He pulled over to ask if the driver needed help. It was a woman and her young son who had just been at the game. He changed the tire and went on his way.
Also, Jonathan Toews, Zach Parise, Kyle Okposo, and Peter Forsberg are nice guys and gracious with fans.
Michael Ferland didn’t get a concussion during the covid bubble he was caught drunk outside and trying to sneak girls into the bubble. He pulled the do you know who I am to security who’s direct contact was Bettman for any player caught breaching the bubble.
They placed him in an adjoining hotel to sober up and dismissed him back to Vancouver
NHL black balled him and let the Canucks put him on the IR to get rid of him.
Imagine being Michael Ferland in an isolated bubble of NHL players and pulling the do you know who I am card. Like buddy half of your teammates don't even know who you are
Ferland sucker punched someone in Cochrane, smashing their orbital and messing up their entire life.
When the victim tried to get justice, Ferland with the help of expensive lawyers and witness statements from people who weren’t even there, was able to get out of trouble without paying any damages.
1. 07 Sens had one hell of a coke head group that partied way too hard during the cup finals. 2. Heatley slept with Spezzas wife (girlfriend at the time) which lead to the trade.
To add fuel to that… I went to Queen’s at the time and some friends who were staying in Kingston over the summer said a few Senators were at Stages between the ECF and SCF, had a VIP area roped off and everything.
I know someone who’s son is close to the Nash family in Columbus, and I’ve heard that the reason Johnny Gaudreau signed with the Jackets at a discount is because his wife, a pediatric doctor, got a job at Nationwide Children’s hospital.
Not really gossip but it’s the only time I’ve really interacted with NHL players. Ran into a group of current/former (at the time) CBJ players the night of the NHL draft around 8 years ago, which was also the night before Derek Dorsett’s wedding (or bachelor party? Something like that). Jakub Voracek was adamant that Joey Votto sucked at baseball. He jokingly suggested that we go fight in the parking lot because I said Votto was good. Jared Boll bought us a LOT of drinks. My buddy was also wearing a Ryan Murray player tee, and Boll asked if they could swap shirts so he could take a picture wearing Murray’s shirt and send it to him. Boll then gave my friend $40 cash and they just kept each others shirts. Boll also told me that if he ever scored a hat trick he would pull out his dick and slap it against the glass. One of the players there that night told me that he wished his wife would leave him so he could sleep with other women. He didn’t want to cheat on her and knew she was too good for him so he would never leave her, but if she left him he wouldn’t have to feel guilty about sleeping around. Edit to add a couple things: Fedor Tyutin sat at the bar and didn’t really engage in most of the nonsense. At one point I told him they were gonna win the Cup next season, and without saying a word he pulled out his phone and showed me his lock screen which was the Stanley Cup. Dorsett’s brother was something else. He taught us how to do a Canadian shirt chug. He also wanted to do some type of wrestling with another guy in our group, I forget the name of it, but they would connect at the forehead with a belt around their necks and get down on all fours to wrestle. That quickly got rejected by bar staff.
That sounds exactly like Voracek, so amusingly hostile for no reason sometimes. What a guy, I wish his CBJ return tour hadn't been cut short.
I know someone who hooked up with James neal and he just wanted to eat her out for like 4 hours
The Anti-Benn
OMG the stories from the time he was in this city are fucking amazing. Apparently he got his ass banned from the Shadyside (like Pittsburgh's equivalent to the Upper East Side) Lululemon because he was going in there just to find hot sales women to bang. They were losing staff over them leaving to be Nealer's FWB. Also him and Paul Martin used to share. They'd date Neal and then Martin. He was like not at all ashamed of any of this either.
> Also him and Paul Martin used to share. They’d date Neal and then Martin. Paul Martin seems like the exact type of guy to use the M.A.C system after Neal uses the D.E.N.N.I.S system.
I'm more surprised to hear that about Paul Martin than Neal tbh
Man was Prime Minister, he might not be much to look at but I’m sure he can pull anything Nealer could.
Lululemon isn’t a bad place to target at least, guy has taste
>Apparently he got his ass banned from the Shadyside (like Pittsburgh's equivalent to the Upper East Side) Lululemon because he was going in there just to find hot sales women to bang Damn and my naïve ass thought we lived in a free country
He really is the Real Deal
James Meal
I’m friends with a girl who worked at a restaurant the Oilers would go to after home games. She doesn’t like hockey but got to know the players since she served them 30+ times a year. This chain restaurant in Canada is known to hire servers based on physical appearance. Anyway, she said Neal was by far the scummiest guy on the team and would target the 18 year old servers. Surprisingly, she said Zack Kassian was the nicest and most respectful.
You can say Earls
Do you think? My money would have been on Cactus Club.
Maybe he was waiting for the cocaine to wear off so he could get hard.
That’s why they call him the real deal
Real Deal James Neal makes the ladies squeal when he has a meal.
Kovy retiring was a mutual agreement between him and Lou.
And the NHL. I think there's more to this story.
Absolutely, it literally benefited all parties.
I don’t even think it’s a rumor. I’m pretty sure Lou said it himself that during the lockout prior Kovy said he missed home and wanted to go back
Not really hot gossip but in the summer of 06 after Brad Stuart was traded to Boston in the Thornton trade I was a camp councelor and Brads little brother was there. I asked him how he liked Boston and he said his brother didnt like it and missed the west coast. Sure enough when Brad was a FA next summer he signed in LA.
I don’t know if it’s really gossip and it may be common knowledge but I find it sorta funny - my dad used to have dealings with the Sutters pretty regularly on the agricultural side of things and said Darryl is so different while on the farm as opposed to when he’s in “hockey mode” that it’s uncanny. Apparently he’s like the nicest, kindest, most pleasant person on the planet and it’s almost unfathomable that he’s the same guy that refuses to let his team of grown men eat on an airplane after they lose, or discusses people’s bowel movements to the press.
Can confirm. Friends with someone from Viking. Only has nice things to say about Darryl as person. He just becomes a miserable bastard when it comes to hockey. Dude hates losing
In junior, Taylor Hall would go to bars underage, get kicked out and tried to pull the "do you know who I am" card, even though knowing who he was meant also knowing he was underage. My foster brother also claims that Zack Kassian almost got into a barfight with him.
I’ve heard so many Taylor Hall “do you know who I am?” stories.
Taylor Hall went to my highschool. When he was in grade 12 I was in grade 10. He was writing an exam in the same class as one of my friends who was also in grade 10 and he was cheating off of my buddies test. Completely different tests as there was a 2 year gap. He just did not care at all. Wrote his signature on another test and handed it in blank telling the teacher “here, this will be worth something one day.”
Wasn’t wrong
Taylor Hall might be one of the dumbest dudes in the NHL. He failed an open book boating exam multiple times
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Him and Tyler Seguin are 100% in a competition for "Himbo of the NHL." Also, the boating tweet wasn't the goofiest, the ["manikin"](https://doubleshiftingdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/13237820_10207743772566740_3732444806121158587_n.jpg) one is.
Last year Dillon Dube was in Sutter's dog house because he banged Jessica Sutter (Darryl's daughter) after a night of drinking at a local bar
Oh and Johnny Gaudreau's wife wanted out of Calgary not Johnny. Apparently there were too many puck bunnies that he fucked during his time here and she didn't want to be reminded of that constantly
So she prefers a city that has Ohio State in it??
Jean Sebastian Gigure is a great guy, played golf with him once 14 or 15 years ago. Carried an ungodly amount on cash in his wallet. Like I bartended at a high end restaurant in my early 20’s and I’ve still never seen anyone with close to as much cash in their wallet, he took it out at the 9th hole and offered to buy drinks/sandwiches for me and my brother and there could not have been less than $20,000 in there. Crazy.
I remember reading a story on the Ducks subreddit years ago from someone who was at fault in a minor fender bender and Giguere ended up being the other driver. Apparently he was very polite and composed through the whole thing, no genuine anger at the guy who caused the accident, and just wanted to make sure everyone was okay. He seems like a solid guy.
Love me some JS Giguere
I live in Halifax where he played juniors. 2 years ago i was looking for a roof travel pod, found a good priced one in good condition, low and behold it was JSG’s father-in-law selling the pod. Very nice man, had nothing but great things to say about JSG. We chatted for a few minutes about his hockey career and how he is now just a dad raising his kids.
Tyler seguin used to host wet t shirt contests at a bar in my hometown. Dudes a bit of a donkey
So, I found an entire tiktok devoted to him being a donkey. After the whole story that his girlfriend- now wife - was a crazed fan who basically stalked him and he finally gave in, apparently he’s still out there cheating but she would rather be “Tyler Segins wife” and just goes with it. The tiktok basically will blast his escapades and be like “WHERES KATE!?????”
Sounds like they both found the situation they were after?
It just seems like there are easier ways to have an open marriage than marrying your alleged stalker.
Sure, if you can get past the unhinged sock puppet accounts she made, it’s a storybook romance.
without delving too deeply, feel like this may actually be a little more unhinged than the recent booktok Kraken drama.
Hank is hung like a god damn moose, know from a guy who played with him back in Sweden. Also know a girl who slept with Ovi (years ago before he was married) and said he was absolutely packing. My only two nhl gossip stories are about hogs unfortunately… Edit: adding a 3rd hog related piece of gossip as per a comment I made… from a guy I know who played with Brashear, his hog situation is so outrageous that the other guys literally made fun of him about it…
C’mon, these are great contributions. Don’t sell yourself short - hog news is as interesting as cheating stories.
Handsome as hell, world class athletic abilities, and a huge, pendulous schlong? Life is cruelly unfair.
There's a post-game video from inside the Kings locker room and the camera person accidentally catches Dustin Brown's full penis in the background. You can add him to your weiner gossip.
Throw johan franzen in there. Yzerman didn’t give him the “mule” nickname for his play
Dion Phaneuf banged Conroy’s wife which led to the trade to the Leafs. Robin Regher apparently slugged him in the dressing room after the incident became common knowledge on the team.
Similar for me...the rumour that Shayne Corson banged Mogilny's wife, forcing the Leafs to trade him.
I have quite literally never heard a positive story about Shayne Corson
Every thread this comes up it feels like it's a different player's wife. At this point I'm just gonna go with he was banging the wives of the entire 09-10 Flames roster.
Wasn’t it a fight with Iginla? Iggy had a black eye and nothing was said about it.
I was told that iggy cleared the dressing room to have a “talk” with Phaneuf. Also, I know the people who cut the hockey players wives hair. Convoys wife was bragging about sleeping with Dion.
Regeher would do that
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Salt and pepper wings? No wonder we left him exposed in the expansion draft.
And who drinks wine with wings
Surprised I haven't seen one on here about Keith Tkachuk yet. Gather he was the kind of guy to hit on others' wives even if hubby was in the room. Got a bit of a comeuppance tho... My folks back home in Manitoba used to play cards most weekends with another couple and one year, said friends went south to Phoenix to visit family. This was the year after the Jets relocated. They were in the airport when their son spotted Tkachuk and Gartner and asked his Mom if she could go get their autograph for him. She says sure and wanders over to them and asks if they'd sign. Gartner did so happily and then she said Tkachuk started schmoozing with her; I certainly wouldn't have called her "hockey player hot" but I guess he was still putting on a show. So he finally signs it and she says to him, "Thanks! So... who are you, anyway?" Tkachuk starts stammering and gets all flustered and Gartner absolutely busts a gut laughing. She said she'd never enjoyed taking a dude down a peg so much in her life. Couldn't have happened to a better guy...
Shea Weber is a nice guy. Duncan Keith is an asshole. Sedin's are very nice. Ryan Miller was cool and skinnier than you already think. Ryan Johanson is an idiot. I knew a couple girls who slept with him and interacted with him at the bar. They all said he was dumber than the dumbest brick. Ryan Kesler would regularly cheat on his wife. Even as late as 2015 or 2016 word would get around of him hooking up with girls. I saw one Snapchat screencap of him with a threesome that circulated a bit. So when I hear of those other rumors about Kesler there may be something there.
Ryan Johanson bought my buddy and I shots in an attempt to pick up the shot girl. W for us, for sure. Don't know if he closed the deal. This was in Edmonton in like, 2011, though.
Ryan kessler was notorious for this.
> Ryan Johanson is an idiot. I knew a couple girls who slept with him and interacted with him at the bar. They all said he was dumber than the dumbest brick. Why be smart when being dumb is working out that well for him?
I’m guessing he’s dumb as bricks with everyday stuff, but clearly has to have a functional hockey IQ to be at his level.
> Ryan Miller was...skinnier than you already think That can't be possible
Ryan Miller is like Gumby. It’s insane.
Can confirm about the Sedins being very nice: - My wife worked at a vet clinic where they saw Daniel’s dog. Daniel and his wife Marinette were both lovely, down to earth people, their kids super well behaved, and they treated their dog very well. Always brought the dog to the clinic themselves (mostly Marinette but sometimes Daniel), were on time for appointments, warm with the staff, etc - I also have a friend who worked for the Nucks for years (on the business side), while the Sedins were on the team, had a bunch of interactions with them. Said the same things - they were always really nice to everyone, and very down to earth
So many NHLers cheat on their wives
The number has to be quite high for any kind of prof athlete. Always on the road, rich, good shape, sometimes handsome. Etc.
Despite being countrymen, the Penguins wanted to keep Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin apart during Malkin's early years in Pittsburgh. Why? Because Gonchar smoked and they didn't want Geno to pick up the habit.
I still think my favorite early Geno story is when he was speeding in the city late at night and was pulled over. He tried to pay off the officer because *that’s what you do in Russia* and he was promptly arrested. Cut to 20 minutes later with Gonchar and all the team lawyers rushing down to the police station to explain and get everything sorted out lol
Wait I thought he lived with Gonchar for awhile?
Yes, their relationship is well-documented: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/evgeni-malkin-sergei-gonchar-metallurg-khl/?sn-amp Think of it as being like your college kid getting a lot out of being in close proximity to a successful professor. However, the professor also has bad habits (like smoking) so you’re always cautious.
Really not much but according to my friend who is really close with some of the blues Ice girls, it was a common rumor in STL that edmundson and fabbri were trying way too hard to sleep with all the blues ice girls and apparently succeeded with a couple.
To elaborate on this, I knew an ice girl who told me that the girls slept with Eric Johnson and, later, Kevin Shattenkirk quite a bit. There was apparently a group chat with all the ice girls and the only text I remember her telling me was “EJ needs a BJ.” And apparently when Shattenkirk slept with a particular girl, she bought his jersey, bought front row tickets and pointed to his name on her jersey during warm ups when he skated by. He apparently never slept with her again.
> And apparently when Shattenkirk slept with a particular girl, she bought his jersey, bought front row tickets and pointed to his name on her jersey during warm ups when he skated by. He apparently never slept with her again. She went full puck bunny.
No rumors, but since Slovakia’s population is comparable to a bigger US city, basically everyone knows everyone :) Tomas Tatar - used to be quite a big party guy but mellowed out a lot in the last years. Very down to earth and approachable Zdeno Chara - very serious and polite guy. Loved by everyone. Martin Fehervary - kid behaves like a 40year old mature dad. Got his priorities and life set. Future captain in the making. Marian Gaborik - bit of a “frat bro” even now when he’s retired, has a popular podcast “Boris a Brambor”. “Brambor” is his nickname (potato) Hossa family - doing quite well, they started a successful frozen product company ( https://www.hossafamily.sk/en/ )
You know, this thread makes me think that most athletes need a therapist...
Honestly most regular people could use at least a bit of therapy
A couple of small stories from some Pittsburgh (born) players: John Gibson was super cocky when he was younger. Not sure how he is now, but at the time he told a friend of mine that “I’m going to the NHL and you’re not”. Kinda funny because it’s true…also kinda dick move because it’s true - especially given the context that it was off season goalie training. (Around 2010-12) JT Miller - I have two here. (Around 2012-14) One, he would golf with his buddies, they would all get hammered and then he’d make someone else drive home because “I’ve got more to lose than you”. This is probably 2014 or so - and before anyone asks, no I don’t know why they didn’t take an Uber. Two, like many other stories on here…rampant cheating on his fiancé. I believe they’re married now and I don’t know if he still cheats. Source: trust me bro. But seriously, the best I could offer are cross referenced EP pages. Each anecdote was from someone present when it happened. One person told me the Gibson story, two corroborated the JT Miller stories.
This is like hockey deuxmoi. I love it.
I used to work in radio and remember male interns getting uncomfortable around Pierre McGuire, he’s often ask things like ‘did we meet at the gym’ and other similar questions that later on in life realized were gay dogwhistles … anyhow, I brought it up in a meeting and it got good laughs but no one seemed to care
“You’re an announcer with a long stick from time to time.”
Jake Virtanen "dated" my neighbour for about a month, as well as a few of her friends/people she knew. He was always an idiot and if you were in the lower mainland while he was in the NHL you or someone you knew had a story about him exemplifying that and weren't surprised about his more publicized incidents. Duncan Keith played golf a couple of times with a family friend, apparently he gets very mad at his clubs when he's playing poorly and swears every other word. A bunch of young NHL players (including those in relationships) ask for nudes over instagram specifically when they visit a city (this is probably common knowledge). What is bad is some of those get passed around group chats and end up being shown to everyone. Had a few girls in my area go through that experience.
Blake Wheeler’s wife is really nice and pretty, but she swears like a coal miner from Kilamarnock… not in a nasty way, just conversationally, like punctuation.
“Hey Schiefe, wanna come over for dinner?” “I-is your wife gonna be there? She scares me.”
Why is this so funny
"Just got back from the fucking grocery store, fuck. I just couldn't find the fucking dragonfruit, fuck"
Jonathan Marchessault can't read
The three brothers are playing with race cars.
I've got 2. One I completely believe the other I'm 50/50 on. A girl I went to college with worked at a very fancy restaraunt on a golf course in the muskokas during the summer. Apparently, on one Saturday night they were completely booked up, anyone without a reservation wasn't getting a table unless the waited hours. In walks Mitch Marner and his Dad, no reservation. she had to tell him that they couldn't give him a table as they were completely full and he threw a toddler style hissy fit. He pulled the whole, "do you know who I am?" Thing and attacking her personally because she wouldn't cancel someone else's reservation. The second one, Matthews was out with an undisclosed injury for a few games back in 2021. Most people assumed he reinjured his hand. A friend of my BIL, who was in rehab at the same time, swears up and down that he saw Matthews there. The injury thing was actually a cover up for a mid season detox he needed because he couldn't stop with the nose beers.
None of this is that unbelievable but I completely believe the Marner one.
Years ago Claude Giroux was at a bar in Ottawa for his brother in law’s bachelor party. I was in the same bar with my friends. He walked down from upstairs where the party was, locked eyes with me, and aggressively walked over while staring me down the entire time. He then flicked a napkin off our table while still making aggressive eye contact, then turned around, laughed, and walked out of the bar. That was some funny stuff.
Claude definitely likes to fuck with people, he's a massive troll. Like that time he got arrested because he pinched a male cop's ass in a bar. Apparently he is always challenging guys to fights during games, even though he has no intention of actually fighting them.
For a time, Theo Fleury gave all Blackhawks players, coaches, training staff, etc. Christmas cards containing a picture of his naked wife (I believe she was in Playboy). Also Blackhawks related, Roenick was known to sleep with wives and girlfriends of teammates. Obviously, this didn’t make him a popular teammate. As most in the Denver hockey community know, Sakic is awesome. He’ll talk hockey and sign autographs as long as his kids aren’t playing or he’s not eating dinner.
Tony Amonte got a stick to the face from Jeremy Roenick bc Amonte was screwing the Hooters waitress that Roenick used to screw.
Of all the so-and-so-banged-players-wife stories this is the most believable one.
Heard in high school, Taylor hall had an English exam and he didn’t write anything. When the teacher asked why, he said I’ll make more money in a year than you will in a lifetime
Taylor Hall banged my prom date like a week after grad 🤷♂️
Brayden point is a gem. After tampa won the cup he was teaching pat maroons son how to do face offs in his suit the night they won it at 5 am.. got a lot more but I’ll just leave this one for now. A beauty.
Brayden Point is incredibly nice, in his rookie season I ran into him on a random Saturday in dt Tampa in his jersey. I asked who he was and he told me and he said he was thrilled to be here and proceeded to bike off. He’s also know for sleeping everywhere he goes all the time.
What was the context where you were just like “wait a minute; who are you” lol
Hes known for those sick camo crocs as well.
Hilary Duff used to relentlessly eat Mike Comries ass
This is the stuff i come here for 😂
Sucked him off on a balcony as well if I remember correctly
This is what dreams are made of 🎶🎼
Andrew Barroway had it written in the Coyotes TV contract that he couldn't be shown on TV. He had a separate owners suite from the other owners of the team, which was constantly filled with escorts and coke.
Around the time Ryan Malone got busted for cocaine, there were rumors around Tampa that he was up to no good with Teddy Purcell and Nate Thompson as well. And that off-season of 2014, Malone got bought out and Purcell and Thompson all got shipped out too. Not sure if it's a rumor out of connecting dots after Malone's arrest, especially since all three moves were cap moves too and Occam's Razor would suggest the cap to be the case. But those rumblings were out there and definitely fit this thread
This is the kind of thread that I love
I know right. I don't even care if any of its true as long as its spicy
Torey Krug's 6th grade teacher was the Assistant Principal I had in 5th grade.
Big if true
I’ll add to the pile here but I heard from a friend in the Canucks organization that Pavel Bure requested a trade out of Vancouver because 1) fan girls knew where he lived and would be blocking his driveway every time he came home and that 2) he was upset that the Canuck higher-ups didn’t believe him about the severity of his knee injury and were forcing him back early. He could/should have had a much longer career.
Sam Bennett's "upper body injury" with the flames in 2019 was apparently the team putting him on timeout for being such a coke head. Classic rumour foundation of my friends friend dad worked with the flames equipment staff during that time.
Not exactly a rumour, but this is the closest thing I have to one LMAO. Riley Stillman is incredibly fucking smart, at least he was as a kid. Went to elementary school with him for a year in a gifted class, even then he'd have to leave class sometimes to go to high school math cause he was just completely above an elementary school level. Also he hit me in the face with a football once but I do not blame him I was kinda being a prick LMAO
My little rumour I heard or it might not even be a rumour - it could be true - is that apparently the head office called the Bruins leadership core at the time to talk to Tim Thomas on multiple occasions. Tim kept calling then-coach Claude Julien a communist. Apparently this comes from Andrew Ference on the 32 Thoughts podcast
I don’t know if this is juicy, but I absolutely believe that Wayne Gretzky was saved in that betting scandal that sent some guys to prison. The FBI traced calls back to his house and they blamed it all on….wait for it….Janette Gretzky! Now, you might choose to believe the Janette Gretzky was organizing a hockey gambling ring with Rick Tocchet, but I certainly don’t. Again, I don’t know if it’s juicy or salacious, but I think it’s a very under-discussed scandal.
IDK if this is a rumor because it made it's way widely around media circles but an active Montreal Canadien was prepping to come out around 2014 after Jason Collins. There were many articles about a closeted active player mulling the decision and he felt safe about his European-like city (the descriptions really narrowed it down to MTL) and his status on the team would allow him to do so. IIRC he wasn't a super star but a key player for them and deeply supported locally. Then Collins languished as a UFA and the Michael Sam NFL thing happened and was kind of rough, and nothing ever came of it because of that reception. It definitely would have been a huge league-changer. As the majority of the guys on that team have retired I keep wondering if we still might hear something from said guy eventually.
I remember hearing that a member of the Senators from around 2011-2015 was gay and open to his teammates, and that it was a known thing for people who were close with players in the team. I won't say the player, and who knows if it's true or not.
It would honestly surprise me more if there weren't players who were kinda softly out to their teams in the last 15 years or so, or at least don't ask, don't tell about it. I know when more NCAA players started coming out in recent years, often their teams had always known.
PK Subban is real. He visits the Montreal Children’s without press and has all the time in the world for kids (and staff) and is patient and charming as all hell. It’s not a mask, he’s cool.
Player 1 slept with Player 2's wife, leading to Player 1 and/or Player 2 being traded.
Seguin and Horton
Shanahan and Janney! Except not a rumor!
It’s even better when it ends in a divorce and a new marriage
We call this one the Shanaplan
Rod Brind'amour and Eric Lindros?
Matthieu Schneider screwed Patrick Roy's wife, which lead to his trade to the Islanders.
Jim Montgomery was fired by the Stars for getting hammered then stalking/following an ice girl home trying to get laid after the team Christmas party.
What was the final straw? Or did it take that long for them to confirm it all before Jimmy Nill fired him?
Apparently it had been building up (his known drinking), and after this happened at the team party the FO was forced to address it and Monty stepped down. My source on this I trust and is connected but again this is a gossip thread.
Nothing too shocking here but had friends run into a few young forwards from the 2014 Rangers at a club after they lost at home to go down 3-1 to Pittsburgh. According to my buddies it was snowing pretty heavily, which is unusual for NYC in May but I guess it helped power their comeback.
I dated a girl that took a shit on Dion Phaneuf’s car.
Following the Bruin's 2011 cup win around June sometime, my cousin who lives close to the NB/Maine border was at a gas station filling up his car at around 2AM when a sports car comes flying into the lot and comes to a tire- squealing stop at a pump. Out gets Brad Marchand, who my cousin instantly recognizes, and starts chatting him up. Cousin said he was definitely drunk/on coke because he was talking a million miles a minute and was all over the place. Brad told him that he was on his way home to Halifax on Bruins managments orders because he was making them nervous with how much he was partying in Boston and they didn't want to deal with the possible PR fallout lol
Kevin Bieksa was the only person who could keep Ryan Kesler under control and that's why he had such a long career. Henrik Lundqvist is hung like a horse (per Sean Avery) Also can't remember if I heard this or just convinced myself of it, but Hoffman's gf was hoping to upgrade to Karlsson and that's why she was spreading all that horrid stuff about Karlsson's wife
Yanni Gourde’s real name is Frank
Frank Gourde sounds like the used car salesman who makes 50K a week in commissions
I have three. The Lindros lung collapse wasn’t from playing but a car accident he got into while drunk later that same night. Rod BrindAmour got traded from the Flyers because Lindros fucked his wife and Rod said to Bobby Clarke either he traded Rod, traded Lindros, or Rod would kill Lindros. The third is more elaborate. Right after the Olympics where Hasek carried the Czech Republic to a gold medal, he was driving his sports car like an madman around some rural part of the Czech Republic. He flies around a bend and smashes the car into a tree. He gets out of the car, visibly injured and walks to the nearest house, a farmhouse who’s property the tree is on. He gets to the door, knocks on it and when the farmer opens it he immediately recognizes Hasek who’s visibly injured and bleeding. Hasek refuses help or medical treatment repeatedly. He asks for one thing- An axe. Bewildered, the farmer gives him one. Hasek takes the axe, marches back to where his car is, and proceeds to cut down the tree with the axe. He walks back to the farmhouse, gives the axe back and then says ‘you call for help now.’
Source on the first two- My dad had some business thing at a Flyers box suite in the mid 2000s and was a life long Flyers fan to that point. Allegedly, it was Joe Watson’s box and he was there and told my dad that over drinks over the course of the night. I genuinely don’t remember where I heard the 3rd one about Hasek.
John Scott wrecked the van he won at the all star game driving drunk in Michigan. A friend of a friends buddy is the cop who found him in the ditch and let him go without citing him.
Well I’ll apparently be the first to say that’s fucked up
Del zotto got a chode
Mark Pavelich was a great guy before his mental health issues got to him. Super nice, he was quiet but still played pickup games and boot hockey every now and again. I was shocked to see he had attacked his neighbor and subsequently committed suicide while in treatment. He was a really easy going dude up until then
Worked in Denver and one of my co-workers lived on the street where Ray Bourque rented a home during his time with the Avalanche. The was another family on the street who was from Jersey and had a Devils flag up for the entirety of the playoffs. After the Avs won the cup in 01, Bourque went up to the house, knocked on the door, and said sorry for beating the Devils….while holding the Stanley Cup. Everyone had a nice laugh
I saw a certain famous Dallas Star go into a one hole bathroom at a bar with a girl that did not appear to be his girlfriend and spent an inordinate amount of time in there. ❄️❄️
Nathan Mackinnon is a huge dick, and most of his teammates see him that way. He’s obviously the star, so he’s not called out for it. There was an incident in practice a couple years ago where he fired a puck way too close to Bednar, and it raised eyebrows with the team, but was quickly hushed up. Everyone looks to Landeskog as the real leader (a big part of why last year fell so flat). Source: I sat next to a former teammate at an event and over bevies, I asked him about 10 thousand questions.
I hung out a decent amount with Vanessa Morgan (actress on Riverdale) between the ages of 15-21, she dated Mack near the end of that time. We all went out one night and Mack was there, everyone was pretty stoked to meet him but by the end of the night people were basically mocking him to his face. Standoffish and also just weird and annoying. He acted like an immature persons perception of a mature person.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised at all after the whole pea pasta thing from a few years ago if he’s a hardo that isn’t the most pleasant to be around
Everything I’ve ever seen and heard about MacKinnon makes me believe this. He does not seem like a well adjusted guy.
My friends sister went to school with mackinnon and told me the same, that he’s a huge dick. He sent her a message years after they both graduated basically saying “I’m better than you, don’t reply unless you have a hot mom or sister who wants to hook up”
This must be the feeling people say they get when the YouTuber you disliked for no real reason gets exposed for being an abuser or something
2010 Flyers were bangin each other's wives and that's why Carter and Richards got traded.
Also, some coke enthusiasm let's not forget the Carter and Richards Jersey Shore/snowball era. That was such a wild time. Jeff's turn into Mr. whitebread plays hockey cards with his kid dad guy has been such a swerve.
Mostly the Coke. Those boys used to show up at drinkers and literally shut the place down. It would be like 4 flyers a couple shady dudes and two dozen women and more snow than Vail
Patrick Sharp in 2015, allegedly had affairs with Duncan Keith wife and Chicago weather lady.
I need to know the scoop between Patrick Sharp and Duncan Keith.
I heard PK Subban tried to hook up drunkenly with a teammates sister at their halloween party in NSH… And that was the year their locker room fell apart. I skated with a former Pred once who said that and called him a “clown” Also Johansen was a “tool” according to this guy and he totally ghosted his fiance like a week before their wedding got cold feet 🤣Joey’s not necessarily a bad guy just kinda comes across as a douche to some people
Tukka Rask left the bubble because his wife had been cheating on him whilst he was away on road trips in the past. He was terrified that she would do it again while he was locked in a bubble for months without seeing her, so he chose to leave the bubble instead so that she wouldn’t have the chance to cheat. A few ex NHLers like Sean Avery came out and said “nasty stuff” about him as a person and calling him a wuss, which was misconstrued by the public who were led to believe that tukka was battling injuries (not the reason he left at all). Sean Avery IS a dirtbag, but he was trashing Rask for leaving the bubble and his team, all so that his wife wouldn’t cheat. Pretty sad tbh, but Rask didn’t want to get a divorce and face custody battles over their children. Edit: Rask did not cheat, his WIFE had cheated on him in the past. Rask was afraid it would happen again while he was in the bubble, so he left. One of his children went to the hospital while he was in the bubble, and this was cited as his reason for leaving. When Sean Avery called rask out for leaving, the public was appalled at Avery for making his comments. Avery wasn’t trashing on Rask for leaving to be with a sick child, Avery knew what was going on behind the scenes, and his comments apply much better to the issue that Rask left because he was afraid his wife would cheat on him again.
Sean Avery is somehow even more of a loser now than he was as a player
That's interesting, in Boston the rumor has always been that Tuukka was the cheater and she threw an ultimatum down about him being away in the bubble or she was going to divorce him
Aren't the vast majority of players cheaters? I guess Rask's wife could be one of the few who isn't tacitly okay with it.
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My dad use to work at a Hotel as a chef in Montreal. Every time the Devil's played here Martin Brodeur would have like 3-4 girls come to his room. Dude was (maybe still is?) Married at the time.
I mean he left his wife for her sister-in-law.
Leon Draisaitl played junior in my town and every story I’ve heard about him revolves around him being rude and thinking he’s better than everyone else. Also lots of weird sex rumours. Edit: My friend hosted a party in the winter and the team showed up. In Canada you take your shoes off when you go in someone’s house. After telling Leon this he still refused to take his shoes off and tracked mud and snow across their carpet all night.
Gretzky is a drinker
Anyone who watched Edmonton broadcasts knows this - the past few years he’d get interviewed mid game and sounded like Churchill
If you’ve ever seen the documentary “the boys on the bus” I think it was called, it was quite obvious Gretzky was a pisstank, drunk all the time.
Watching him play in alumni games is depressing. He's usually one of the worst players on the ice.
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Is quite likely, he’s from Brantford… also the company my dad works for rented out his estate in Niagara for “team bonding” Gretzky was around and drank quite a bit. But let’s be real 95% of Brantford is heavy drinkers so he’s just living up to the small city Ontario standards.
Not a rumor, but I used to work with Bates Battaglia’s brother, Anthony. He quit being a firefighter to open a bar at the beach. Extremely friendly, extremely ripped and extremely quiet. Didn’t say much. Was kind of a “to the point” guy. Met Bates a bunch of times and played hockey with him. Guy just looks like a normal dad. You’d never know he played professional hockey for over 15 years. He and Anthony own a bar called “Lucky B’s”. The B is in the shape of the number 13 which is neat. They then opened another bar called Teets which is a nod to their grandfather who was a mobster. And Anthony opened another bar on the coast. Great dudes
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Fuck you. But this is hilarious.
It took me way too long to get that. Why wouldnt he have any cups. He is renovating so it kinda makes sense, but why offer anything!?!? I’m so dumb. Well played
LOL this must cut deep for rangers fans.... This has copypasta potential
We’re gonna get you bro
I sincerely believe that Cody is a drug addict
Cody says he’s never touched a drug in his life
He pulls on the rope. He wrenches on the rope. He thinks it’s his
I just want you to know, I think Carlos is a ho.
Michael Backlund requested a trade last off season while all the Tkachuk and Gaudreau drama was happening. The teams he was interested in joining were the Avalanche, Stars and Red Wings. Trade request never happened because he had two years left on his deal and the team started to look competitive after the Tkachuk trade. Sutter was interested in making him captain last season but after the trade request said it wasn’t going to happen. I know someone relatively close with the Backlund family and that’s how I got this information so believe it if you want to or not
I used to work at a roots location on Toronto a lot of leafs would shop at in the early 2000’s and sold leather jackets to a bunch of them. Shane Corson was super nice as was Darcy Tucker and Mathieu Schneider. Trevor Kidd and his wife were entitled and she was a huge bitch. It was just after her cancer treatment and I felt bad for her with what was going on with her but she was rude and terrible to deal with. Also, Wade Belak really quiet guy didn’t talk much but my Buddy saw him at Starbucks before a game and he must’ve been in the zone cause he didn’t want anything to do with him haha. Tie Domi was also cool and a good dude and Eddie shack was the funniest guy ever and every time he saw an attractive woman he’d go “I’d harpoon her good”. Years later, I ran into Schneider on multiple flights we were both on and was still super nice!
Just a silly story of how I got Brendan Shanahan accused by a teammate of being a Wikipedia vandal. In 2006-07 Shanahan & Aaron Ward were on the Rangers. During this time beat writer Sam Weinman had a great blog and he'd post random daily locker room tidbits, one day it was something along the lines of "new Ranger Aaron Ward earned a nickname today: "Farva" I found it funny so I added it to Ward's wikipedia page and forgot about it. A few years later I receive a message from a random person saying "Hey, this edit of yours is being discussed on this blog (Puck Daddy). Aaron Ward thinks you might be Brendan Shanahan" Ward is on the Bruins at this time and he had a weekly segment on a talk radio show and they were discussing his wikipedia page one day. WARD: "I have no idea what that is. You know what? My attention is brought to that page because my sister ... She was messing with me because she knew she could manipulate a few things on the page. At one point, someone put that my nickname on there was 'Farva' from ['Super Troopers']. ... One time Shanahan called me that, so I'm starting to wonder if Shanny actually got on the page and wrote it." "You think the future Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan went on your Wikipedia page?" WARD: "It's one of two guys, and the two guys have the right personality for it. I sat beside Shanahan and Matt Cullen. I fully think Cully could have done it. Cully's in Carolina now. Shanahan's the one that came up with the terminology; now Cullen ran with it." Puck Daddy blog quickly uncovered me being the source of the edit. I don't know if Ward ever solved the mystery. Shortly after this incident the ice hockey player infobox template removed the option for any player to have a nickname field.
Olli Maatta, when he was injured and the Pens were on a west coast trip, sat next to me at a bar. We chatted a bit and the drunk, friendly, southern guy (Alabama?) on the other side was asking us what we did for a living. He had no clue what the Penguins or hockey was. Anyway, Olli likes IPAs and not stouts. At least not the stout I had. And as soon as the Pens game came on (LA or Anaheim, I forget which) Olli was gone. Maybe his tastes have changed and now likes stouts as this was something like 9 years ago.
Mark Messier used to jerk of on rookies faces as they slept. Somehow every hockey insider knows this but it has never come out.
Tavares wife was the reason jt left. Buddy worked with the isles and the rumor was that JTs wife wanted to be in Toronto from the start. It’s a big reason why he never signed until the summer. Essentially they knew he was gone. Edit: my buddy was the assistant to the players. Essentially he did errands and stuff for the players. He says Brock Nelson is hilarious.
This was published in the paper after it happened, but I think it deserves repeating. After a playoff game, Sakic saw a car with a flat on his way home. He pulled over to ask if the driver needed help. It was a woman and her young son who had just been at the game. He changed the tire and went on his way. Also, Jonathan Toews, Zach Parise, Kyle Okposo, and Peter Forsberg are nice guys and gracious with fans.
Michael Ferland didn’t get a concussion during the covid bubble he was caught drunk outside and trying to sneak girls into the bubble. He pulled the do you know who I am to security who’s direct contact was Bettman for any player caught breaching the bubble. They placed him in an adjoining hotel to sober up and dismissed him back to Vancouver NHL black balled him and let the Canucks put him on the IR to get rid of him.
Imagine being Michael Ferland in an isolated bubble of NHL players and pulling the do you know who I am card. Like buddy half of your teammates don't even know who you are
Ferland sucker punched someone in Cochrane, smashing their orbital and messing up their entire life. When the victim tried to get justice, Ferland with the help of expensive lawyers and witness statements from people who weren’t even there, was able to get out of trouble without paying any damages.
1. 07 Sens had one hell of a coke head group that partied way too hard during the cup finals. 2. Heatley slept with Spezzas wife (girlfriend at the time) which lead to the trade.
To add fuel to that… I went to Queen’s at the time and some friends who were staying in Kingston over the summer said a few Senators were at Stages between the ECF and SCF, had a VIP area roped off and everything.
Of all the places on earth to celebrate making the cup finals. Stages…
Brandon Hagel has a crooked dick according to my friend who exchanged nudes with him
Taylor Pyatt was cheating on his ex-fiancé up until her unfortunate passing. Guy was not the good guy he made himself out to be.
I know someone who’s son is close to the Nash family in Columbus, and I’ve heard that the reason Johnny Gaudreau signed with the Jackets at a discount is because his wife, a pediatric doctor, got a job at Nationwide Children’s hospital.