Lightning Create New Possible Ways for NHL to Create Revenue

The Tampa Bay Lightning have not been a very good team at this point and their coaches have made sure they know that during practice. The players though were sick of being serious in practice so after formal practice was over, they decided to do what every normal team does, play naked shootout.

↵The rules of naked shootout are easy. A player scores and their shootout is over. If they don’t score, they have to remove a piece of equipment and then try again. Repeat process until scoring. Here is the account for poor Martin St. Louis:

↵↵As the last player standing, St. Louis quickly started to run out of pieces of equipment to shed. While his helmet, elbow pad, gloves, jersey and shoulder pads were among the first articles to come off, St. Louis kept getting stone-walled by Smith and Niittymaki. So next off were his shin pads, after missing his next attempts. Then he went to his hockey socks – still no goal. Next off was his right skate, leaving St. Louis to “glide’’ down the ice on one foot – no goal. Then came the left skate (he was giving a pair of sandals to wear on the ice) leaving St. Louis to go street-hockey style up the ice.

↵At this point, the rest of the team would bang their sticks on the ice as St. Louis “rushed’’ his way on net. But two attempts in sandals failed to result in a goal, forcing St. Louis to take off his regular socks, leaving him with just his hockey pants, under shirt and other under garments still attached to his body.

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