This isn't an embarrassing player moment, and not even one that I was involved in, but is a good story nonetheless.
Embarrassing Mascot Moment
Several years ago the Flames used to have "mascot" games in between periods. The company I was working for at the time, sponsored the Flames and had 2 mascots playing in the game. We ended up sending the 2 best hockey players in the office. Although their costumes were very awkward, they still got around pretty well.
At the time, the guy who was dressed up as Harvey was a real dink. Obviously used to his costume due to the nature of his job, he was skating all over the place running the other mascots who were struggling to just stay on their feet with the extra pounds of large heads and awkward bodies. Mascots flying around all over the place, Harvey enjoying every pathetic minute of it.
At one point, Harvey gets a breakaway, and one of the guys I worked with gave chase. He caught up, but instead of trying to take the puck, he jumped on Harveys back instead, and they slid into the corner.
Just as they are wrestling around, Harveys head pops off. Immediately, the guy who's dressed up as Harvey covers his head, and sort of half turtles to hide his identity, but at the same time trying to scramble to find his head and put it back on.
Just as Harvey finds his head, our guy kicks it over to the corner and starts to pretend to whale away on Harvey while he's down. Laughs ensue, and Harvey finally gets up and skates off the ice covering his head, embarrassed and not wanting to reveal his true, pathetic identity.
So the intermission ends, and all of the mascots (except Harvey), are changing back into their street clothes in an assigned change room. Everyone is the room is having a good laugh about the incident, and then suddenly the doors burst open, and the guy who dresses up as Harvey bursts in shirtless, only wearing Harvey pants and Harvey booties.
He yells, "Who knocked my head into the corner?"
Thinking he was joking around, the guy responsible fesses up while continuing to laugh.
Guy who dresses up as Harvey runs over to him, pins him against the wall, and says, "What are you, some kind of f'n 2 bit mascot?"
Not wanting to cause a scene, our guy puts his hands up and says "Harvey, I was just joking around."
Guy dressed up as Harvey continues his tirade, when finally our guy says "Get your f'n hands off of me, Harvey!"
This was my favourite part of the whole story, because even though Harvey was out of costume and shirtless, our guy is still calling him Harvey.
Anyway, things calmed down from there.
The next mascot game, Harvey had wrapped his head in masking tape to keep his lid on.
There is a video somewhere capturing the whole on ice fiasco. I wish someone knew where it was.
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