Skate Blades, Bench Doors & Other Hockey Realities
Because in no other sport do grown men crawl off the ice and call it normal.
Losing the Blade (Literally)
This week gave us another classic hockey moment LA Kings forward Warren Foegele lost a skate blade mid-play and crawled back to the bench like a baby deer on ice.
No whistle. No dramatic pause. Just a professional athlete dragging himself across frozen water because in hockey, we don’t limp, we crawl.
Watch it here:
Tell me another sport where this is just… accepted.
The Bench Door: Still Undefeated
We spend thousands on equipment.
We train year-round.
We analyze systems and video.
And yet the bench door continues to humble grown men.
There was another beauty of a line change fail floating around this week. Physics wins again.
See it here:
https://www.instagram.com/nhlhumor/reel/DUONpHgEStZ/?hl=en
Somewhere, every hockey parent nodded and thought, “Yep. That tracks.”
Skate Blades Are Apparently Optional
If you thought one blade incident was enough, think again.
Another clip made the rounds of a blade popping clean out mid-play. Because apparently this is just part of the sport now.
Watch it here:
Other sports would stop the game.
Hockey says, “Figure it out.”
And That’s Hockey.
And as ridiculous as it all is ,the crawling, the door defeats, the disappearing blades - it’s also exactly why this sport is what it is.
Hockey players don’t stop when something breaks.
They adjust.
They drag themselves off.
They come back next shift.
It’s chaotic. It’s dramatic. It’s slightly unhinged.
But if you’re raising one of these boys, you know —
that part isn’t funny at all.
It’s the lesson.
And that does it for this weeks Weekly Wrap Around!