The Washington Capitals are comprised of the world’s hardest males, taking part in a sport the place they put on footwear with knives on them, with the occasional punch thrown. Yet, they nonetheless get jumpy round an eight-legged creature, or one thing lurking under them within the ocean.
Everyone has an animal that makes their pores and skin crawl, and the Capitals have been requested to share theirs.
Even feared enforcer Tom Wilson.
Lions and tigers and snakes, oh my!#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/LQZS6hnYvm
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) December 23, 2023
Wilson was part of a gaggle of gamers that have been afraid of snakes, and no, we’re not speaking about Elvis Merzlikins. Though, we grew to become extra centered on Tom’s dialog with the producer after revealing his reply.
“Is a snake an animal?” Tom requested. “I don’t know if snakes are technically an animal, would it be…”
[He thinks to himself for a second.]
“A reptile? Yeah, they’re definitely a reptile!”
Wilson, whereas heading in the right direction in his tried species identification, barely missed the mark in his classification. While a snake does belong to the reptile household, they’re nonetheless part of the animal kingdom.
Even Tommy’s spouse, Taylor Wilson threw a “head in hands” emoji within the remark part of the Capitals’ put up. Taylor graduated from the University of Manitoba with a level in microbiology, and hopefully, she may give Willy a number of classes in taxonomy.
Alex Ovechkin picked a bigger animal: a tiger.
The Moscow native hails from one of many solely nations that performs host to the Siberian (Amur) tiger, the most important and strongest large cat on the earth. This was an opinion agreed upon by goaltender Darcy Kuemper, who can also’t stand the striped predator.
Dylan Strome named bees and he didn’t skip a beat earlier than doing so. The heart was the one Capital to reply the winged insect, and apparently there’s a giant motive why. According to a number of Instagram commenters on the video, Stome was as soon as chased out of a Blackhawks follow by a singular bee.
Aliaksei Protas was considered one of seven Capitals gamers to call snakes, however “if we count it as an animal” — an analogous confusion as Wilson.
This is an fascinating concern for Protas to have, contemplating as a prospect, he earned the nickname “the Viper of Vitebsk” whereas taking part in for the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League. For the document or for individuals who don’t know, a viper is a sort of snake. Protas’s moniker got here from the household with whom he stayed throughout his profession with the Western Hockey League. The crew even designed a bobblehead that options the middle sporting a viper round his neck, his host dad nonetheless has one immediately.
Kuzy’s disdain for snakes isn’t any shock. During a “What’s in the Box?” with Paul “Biznasty” Bissonnette, he informed the host “I’ll be fine as long as it’s not a snake, if it’s a snake, I’m going to run away.” This got here after Biznasty talked about a boa constrictor and Kuzy grew to become petrified.
Luckily, the one killer in his field was the excessive fructose corn syrup within the gummy worms they selected to trick him with.
Other Caps hopped on the anti-snake prepare, together with Rasmus Sandin, Anthony Mantha, Alexander Alexeyev, and Beck Malenstyn. The second-most feared animal was the shark, which was picked by TJ Oshie, Connor McMichael, Nic Dowd, Nick Jensen, and Sonny Milano.
John Carlson went off the board with leeches, which common a size of underneath 2.5 inches. Some are at the same time as small as ½ an inch. So the rumors are true, even males with their names carved into the Stanley Cup are afraid of issues you possibly can’t see with out their glasses on.
Then there was Martin Fehervary.
“Actually I really love animals, all kinds, so I’m not really afraid of anything like spiders or snakes,” Fehervary mentioned. “I don’t mind, it’s okay.”
Sweet, candy Marty. The D-man couldn’t even choose an animal to call. The animal lover was gifted his first pet canine for his tenth birthday, which he informed W-Magazine was one of the best present he ever obtained in life. On high of that, Marty is an avid fisherman, and just lately received a carp-fishing competitors in his home nation of Slovakia, hooking a 57-pound “big-mama.” For his sake, we will solely hope it was catch and launch.
Marty isn’t the one Cap with a knack for fishing, goaltender Charlie Lindgren appears to have fairly a expertise for the game. His household spends time fishing in Canada, the place the trout appear to flock to Chuck.
Despite his love of fishing, he wasted no time telling Caps followers that he was not a fan of lions. Now that’s one I get.
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