Embarassing player encounters

[BigBrodieFan]

I went to University of Windsor and my roommate was quite the puck bunny in the 90s. She was a wild child (always with one NHL player or another, usually no names) and let's just say she made some serious noise while entertaining her various guests. One night she was particularly loud and I was really getting upset because I had to work the next morning and I had three classes at the U after work. All night long I hear 'Oh Bobbie, Oh Bobbie' and I didn't know who the heck she had in there. All I know is she was up for a good three/four hours. They finally stopped and I got up at 7am and turned on the coffee pot. I got in the shower and walked out with a towel wrapped around me (thinking that her and her company were passed out after such a long night), and walked through the kitchen to see Bob Probert sitting at the kitchen table in his boxer shorts. He was sitting there mostly naked, he had scratch marks on his shoulders, hickeys on his neck, and a pair of underwear on- like he owned the place. He drank my whole put of coffee and he asked me if I had a light for his cigarette. It really took me by surprise, and in the full two minutes it took me to register who he was, I dropped my towel which was hanging half on my body and he was just looking at me half naked. He goes 'Umm.. you might want to pick that up' so like an idiot I bent over to look at what I dropped. He got quite the show, he started laughing hysterically and I ran back to my room dying of embarrassment. When I got home that night, he was still there and made a habit of 'stopping by' regularly for awhile. I moved out with some new girls about three weeks later.

[habernac]

not embarrassing for me, but...

Having a pint at the pub one day, Doug Risebrough walks in and sits down. He's working for the Oilers at this point. Had a nice chat with him, talking about his days in Montreal, etc. The bartender finally clues in to who he was. Looks at Riser and asks "So, how do you think the Flames will do this year?" Doug looks up with a scowl and says "Why the $%^! would I give a %&!# about that?" and stomps away.

I did get a Ken Dryden autograph once and could barely speak. No idea why I got so nervous, I've met Lafleur, Gretzky, Richard, etc and wasn't nearly that bad.

[THEflamesFAN]

Ladies and gentlemen.. The winner BBF!!

[GreenLantern]

The names have been changed in this story to protect those involved..

A friend of mine used to have a cabin at a lake next to a former Flame.. he used to get just slosh faced drunk all the time.. and the one night they were at the local bar and a guy came up and said "Holy *#(@! You're _____ ___________! Can I get an autograph?"

So buddy whips out his package and places the pen between his long john and golf balls.. and proceeds to sign a napkin that way. Finished, and said "Here you go champ." and threw the napkin in his direction before falling/sitting back down into his chair.

[FlameFan]

Visiting my parents in St Albert, AB. I was leaving a Chapters when Raffi Torres was entering. I said outloud "I didn't think he could read!" which he totally heard.

[East Coast Flame]

So back in 2008 I was out in Halifax for the world Hockey Championships. One of my old mans good friends is the chiropractor for Team Canada, so when he heard we were heading out he managed to get us "family passes", so we were basically hanging out with the team all week. Couple stories:

- I went out partying with a bunch of the guys a couple nights and most of them were great. Spezza was a super nice guy. Nash, Burns and Green were machines, awesome guys to party with. The only one that I didn't like was Heatley. He was a bit of a dick.

- Toews was still pretty young (I think he just finished his first season) and was super quiet. Him and Gagner spent most of their time playing video games with all the other players kids.

- I have never really been star struck before, but at one point I took my little cousin up to the lounge to meet some of the players and get autographs. We are about to take the elevator down when the doors open and standing in the elevator is Steve Yzerman. Both of us just freeze. A couple awkward seconds pass and he smiles and asks if we're going down. We walk on and spend the next couple seconds just staring at him. He then starts talking to my little cousin, asking him if hes having a good time, who he met etc. Then signed his jersey and got off. I managed to say "Thanks Steve" as he got off. Smooth.

-Keenan was on our flight out and we stopped and talked to him for a bit. We asked why none of the Flames were playing, he said Regeher and Iggy were asked but both were having kids over the summer. He said Dion was asked too but "who knows what that kid is up to". Had a good laugh over that one.

[Ozy_Flame]

I've met a few of the Flames before, including Robyn Regehr, Craig Conroy and Jarome Iginla, all in random encounters. I saw Rene Bourque at the Best Buy in Westhills the a few months ago - his girlfriend was making him buy lots of stuff. I also remember golfing with Lanny once (well, a group behind him) and the mustachioed one could really smack that ball.

My dad used to babysit the Sutters back in Viking as well. I always thought that was kind of funny. My dad is kind of the louder, charismatic type, I'm sure that flew well with them straight-laced Sutter boys haha . . . I also remember Momma Sutter bagging our groceries in the IGA there as well, that was odd.

[Flejszon]

Halloween 2009, I was walking downtown Montreal on St. Laurent street (the bar/club street) dressed up as Brett Favre. I'm just walking along towards the end of the night, and I hear someone yelling "Favre! Favre! Come over here!" So I go over to the guy, and I've had a few drinks at this point. I walk over to him and realize that the guy had a familiar face.

Me: Hey, do I know you?
Him: Nope, just liked your costume.
Me: Nah, you look familiar, I think I know you
Him: Nope, never met before
Me: Wait a second, your Colby Armstrong.
Him: hehe, yea, nice jersey buddy.

Wasn't really that funny, but I liked how I was walking down a crowded street, and a pro hockey player started calling me out from the crowd.

[Uncarved]

I lost $75.00 to Darren McCarty playing poker. I flopped trips and he hit a flush on the river.

Also met Theo on a flight. I was reading his book around the same time but accidently left it at home the day before. Would have been nice to have gotten it signed. He was quite built and a lot bigger than i would have expected.

When we were younger our coach also knew someone in the LA Kings organization so when they came to Calgary we got to go in their dressing room after the morning practice. I was so excited cause i thought we were going to get to meet Gretzky. Apparently the practice was optional and quite a few didn't show. But we did get to meet Marty McSorley in the stands as he watched the practice. That was pretty cool as a young kid.

[kermitology]

In 2004, during the SCF, I went into a section to break up a fight between a Flames fan and a Tampa Fan. The Tampa Fan was beaking off to the Flames fan, and I was trying to get him to settle down.

After getting everyone down the stairs and getting the Flames fan to just walk away, the Tampa Fan said something insulting and I whipped around and got in his face, screaming at him that if he was going to hit someone, then he should just "****ing hit ME" like the big tough mother ****er he is.

Turns out I challenged Cory Sarich's dad..

[Tron_fdc]

I know a girl that was one or two guys away from sleeping with a player from every team in the NHL. She never went into great detail, but I'm pretty sure there was a few guys that had her on speed dial when they came to town.

I always kinda wondered if expansion teams messed up her stats.......

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

I went to University of Windsor and my roommate was quite the puck bunny in the 90s. She was a wild child (always with one NHL player or another, usually no names) and let's just say she made some serious noise while entertaining her various guests. One night she was particularly loud and I was really getting upset because I had to work the next morning and I had three classes at the U after work. All night long I hear 'Oh Bobbie, Oh Bobbie' and I didn't know who the heck she had in there. All I know is she was up for a good three/four hours. They finally stopped and I got up at 7am and turned on the coffee pot. I got in the shower and walked out with a towel wrapped around me (thinking that her and her company were passed out after such a long night), and walked through the kitchen to see Bob Probert sitting at the kitchen table in his boxer shorts. He was sitting there mostly naked, he had scratch marks on his shoulders, hickeys on his neck, and a pair of underwear on- like he owned the place. He drank my whole put of coffee and he asked me if I had a light for his cigarette. It really took me by surprise, and in the full two minutes it took me to register who he was, I dropped my towel which was hanging half on my body and he was just looking at me half naked. He goes 'Umm.. you might want to pick that up' so like an idiot I bent over to look at what I dropped. He got quite the show, he started laughing hysterically and I ran back to my room dying of embarrassment. When I got home that night, he was still there and made a habit of 'stopping by' regularly for awhile. I moved out with some new girls about three weeks later.

So ummmm eerrrrr how you doin

[Diverce]

This happened to a buddy of mine which I thought was pretty funny.

My buddy when he lived in Calgary around 2000, 2001, worked at Safeway in Kennsington. He was working the till and this guy comes up... he helps him, talks to him, all the while people are gathering, the phone is ringing and he just ended up taking it off the hook so he could continue to help this player... he talks to him, and he has no idea who this guy is... he's never watched hockey before, at the time knew nothing about hockey... although, now he cheers for the Canucks just to rile me up... but he ended up having a non fan type of conversation... but he was oblivious to who this person was, all the while my friend was helping him he had a smile on his face... my friend then asked him, "are you someone special"... he laughed and politely said "I play for the Calgary Flames", and then he asked, "you really don't know who I am"... he was honest and said "no, I knew you must be an athlete by the size of your quads I was guessing a track star"... He laughed and went on his way and actually thanked my friend for the nice conversation.

After he left everyone ran up to my friend, all excited... you just helped Jarome Iginla.

The coolest thing, and it speaks to Iggy's character. Iginla came back about 2 hours later and gave him 2 tickets to that nights game... told him that maybe it's time he sees a hockey game.

To this day, my friend says he is the nicest guy he has ever met.

[troutman]

Recently I went to the Chicago game and my Dad came over to babysit my boys. My neighbor (one of the all time PM leaders in NHL history) came over to keep Dad company. No way my kids were going to misbehave.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

I know a girl that was one or two guys away from sleeping with a player from every team in the NHL. She never went into great detail, but I'm pretty sure there was a few guys that had her on speed dial when they came to town.

I always kinda wondered if expansion teams messed up her stats.......

You know Alyssa Milano?

[Diverce]

Originally Posted by troutman

You know Alyssa Milano?

thought is was Elisha Cuthbert

[habernac]

Originally Posted by troutman

You know Alyssa Milano?

now you're thinking Major League Baseball.

[THEflamesFAN]

Cue the photo of Alyssa in a flames shirt please!

[Diverce]

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by troutman

You know Alyssa Milano?

I wish. I just know one or two girls that get pretty "loose" when NHL players are around (current and ex).