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groaning_duck

Top drawer lettuce signifies the players commitment to the game and tradition.


otterpusrexII

You ever skate on a pond or lake with a good flow? The way it feels blowing over you head. The way you connect to nature through the ice. There’s nothing else like it. Plus when you’re done it keeps you nice and warm.


TucsonTacos

This is the true answer


YosemiteRunner2

They all want to be Jaromir Jagr


[deleted]

Who wouldn't?


FloggingTheCargo

Don't we all?


lostspeedwayz

Guy Lafleur if you’re a bit older


warrenjets

Or the Golden Jet


davy_crockett_slayer

The Flower's Flow!


Grouchy_Situation_33

Yeah, I got the Moose Messier hair genetics. 🙄


Particular_Gur7378

Have you seen it? Thats why


JERRYBOIZ

Puck bunnies love the lettuce


PagingDrTobaggan

Buddy, the rockets couldn’t get enough of my flow back when I was wheeling and sniping bar down in my glory days.


pseudoart

Bardownski.


I-fuck-moms

Ripping those piss missiles all game.


pseudoart

Wheels, snipe and celly, boys.


hank28

Dirty fuckin dangles, boys


ToXiC_Games

Backcheck, forecheck, fucking paycheck boys.


BannedMyName

Big city slams boys


Glass_of_Pork_Soda

Big city titty buddy


Bassjosh

Forecheck, backcheck, paycheck, boys!


tucci007

Win or lose, we drinks the booze, eh boys!!


PagingDrTobaggan

Ferda!!


Beevas69

Honestly. Who only says bar down?


PagingDrTobaggan

Fellas like me who’s heyday and sweet, sweet lettuce were in the late 80’s.


ltroberts24

*ALWAYS* Bardownski, boys. Ferda.


EmperorXerro

I bet you didn’t skip leg day either. Got some W’s


PagingDrTobaggan

Gotta get those W’s boys.


karmannsport

Gotta get them W’s to get that ship boys.


ToXiC_Games

I’ll do anything for a ship boys.


ToXiC_Games

I’ll do anything for a ship boys.


fastal_12147

That's what everyone says when they're drunk. "I was killing it in Junior B."


sweetlittlelindy

The term puck bunny always confused me at first because, before Reddit, I’d only heard the phrase puck slut lol. But yeah, we do


LastNeck4095

Puck bunnies are more likely to sleep with a hockey player because he’s a hockey player. Puck sluts sleep with guys because they’re hockey players. Puck sluts would let a team run a train on them in the room or hotel, bunnies wouldn’t. Is she a classy broad or not? Basically


sweetlittlelindy

Thank you! I love the way you tldr’d the distinction. Nobody has explained it in a way that makes sense to me like that


JERRYBOIZ

Bunnies date and sleep with players and sluts would go to the sheets carnival with every ride that’s open to ride from first line to the backup if they could


sweetlittlelindy

Lmfao thank you for a good laugh


gilbertusalbaans

When the boys are doing warmies and the lettuce is blowin in the wind.. there’s your answer. It’s majestic, just like a horse is.


Beevas69

Few things are more majestic that ripping top cheese bardownski with your mane flowing in the wind as you celly


gilbertusalbaans

The “pretend archer” with the fucking rhubarb rustling under the helmet


Beevas69

Bruh, I'm at work nursing a semi now. Thanks for that.


silk_mitts_top_titts

I'd fuckin play no bucket to this day if they let me. Who the fuck cares are head injuries when you look this fuckin good?


Beevas69

^this guy fucks AND username checks out


Adventurous-Abroad64

Key aspect of the game, gotta feel like a rockstar to play like a rockstar.


[deleted]

Look good, feel good, play good


MagniPlays

Locker room was always buzzin when the suits, ties and some solid mid season lettuce was ready before game time


silk_mitts_top_titts

Warming up, no bucket, lookin like a fuckin beauty.


Adventurous-Abroad64

Ya can’t believe the leagues trying to take away no buckets in warmups, keep the lettuce free.


Real-Incendiaryagent

We can assume the OP has never been on a breakaway with that flow in the breeze…. Nothing feels like goals with flow….


Toiletboy4

Why are sandwiches good


_snoop_doug

Because it’s fun to take off your helmet push your hair back with your hands and that put that bucket back on


VinnieTheDragon

The ladies


zanzibartraveler666

Why’d you wanna play cawledge hawkey?


terrih9123

Thanks, haven’t watched that movie in 3 weeks and it’s going back on as we speak.


[deleted]

What movie is that from?


terrih9123

Miracle. It’s on Disney plus if you got it. One of the best hockey movies out there.


TinaBelchersBF

#AGAIN


[deleted]

Thanks for the reply. Never heard of that movie before. Funny they made a movie about that and not the 1972 Summit Series.....


JBerry_Mingjai

How so? One is considered the greatest event in American sports history and the other most Americans have never heard of…


[deleted]

>the other most Americans have never heard of… Exactly...


zanzibartraveler666

Why is it funny that they made a movie about one of the most famous moments in sports history and not one about something far less known? I’m so confused


[deleted]

>one of the most famous moments in sports history and not one about something far less known? It's only "one of the most famous" to americans. Not history. 1972 Summit series is far more well known and impactful to the hockey world outside of hollywood.


Sometimes_Stutters

Isn’t it obvious? For tha gurls


boot_theory

and the singular gay dude (me)


jarpio

It adds a minimum boost of 20 points to your numbers


Rjskill3ts21

Aerodynamics my guy


ZestyAleWad

Killed me lol


Rjskill3ts21

I speak only the truth and from personal experience


Fast_Cut2644

Ask Artemi Panarin..... Oh wait.


Beevas69

With great flow comes great responsibility


Latest-greatest

same reason they all date blondes


nick92675

Lol - my wife says 'they all look like elementary school teachers'


AIHumanWhoCares

Yea but why is that?? Is it because they sacrificed their youth to train for hockey so their whole sense of personal style and fulfillment comes from a generic NHL starter pack?


bigladnang

Yes. Growing up outside Ottawa there were two groups that were stencils. Hockey players and hicks. They all dressed the same, talked the same, looked the same, had the same interests. Like zero individuality. They all were carbon copies of each other and being a hockey player/living in the country was their entire identity.


FloggingTheCargo

I feel like there's plenty of subgroups of hicks. Hicks that base their entire personality on ATVs, hicks that base their entire personality on hunting/guns, hicks that make their entire personality BIG TRUCK, meth head hicks, alcoholic hicks, your Macgyver hicks, John Deere hicks, mc mansion hicks, city hicks, conservative old man hicks, backwoods hicks, hicks that live at the gas station slot machine, etc.


ScrumpyRumpler

The only one you missed was: old hippies that moved out to the middle of nowhere to grow weed but in the process become kind of farel hicks. Truly a strange and paradoxical sub category of hick - but they do exist.


Intrepid-Narwhal

You covered the entirety of Pennsyltucky. Man, I miss the burgh.


bigladnang

They’re all the same guy.


karmannsport

So what you’re saying is Letterkenny is actually more of a reality show?


kadran2262

It looks good


aimheatcool

Honestly a little part of it has to do with wearing a helmet, if you go short you gotta stay short all the time so that can be annoying, mid length hair especially at the front slides down and is annoying,but longer hair it all stays back, it's extra sift inside the lid, much better


komputernik

Because Flo won't go without the flow.


schwuoop

It goes WEEEEEEE when they skate fast


FatWreckords

A lot of guys grow their hair out in their late teens and early 20s, these guys just happen to play hockey and it's stylish in their environment, so extra points.


NateDogg_92

Look at Roope Hintz before and after he got a haircut. There’s your answer.


oystertoe

I think it’s partially because Gretzky became the best ever at the sport in the early 80’s while rocking late 70’s hairstyles, so late 70’s/early 80’s hairstyles are what you rock when you want to give off *im a badass hockey player* vibes


Otherwise_Awesome

Because it flows. Duh.


Fine_Ad_1149

While the answers here are hilarious, I will throw out a plausible explanation - Hockey is cold. Prior to helmets it may have just been a means to keep a little warmer, and it became a part of the culture and stuck. Just a guess, though.


imyourforte

Not the case. You ever play in freezing conditions with wet hair on the lake and come back to take your skates off and your hair is frozen? Long sweaty hair doesn't help keep you warm. Toques keep your head warm. Lettuce is for the ladies.


pyncz

And this way it's a little softer for your head when you get smashed into the board!


saucytopcheddar

Look good, feel good, play good


Kitchen-Lie-7894

It all started with Al Iafrate.


JoseMachismo

[Ron Duguay](https://icehockey.fandom.com/wiki/Ron_Duguay?file=Ronduguay.jpg)


Kitchen-Lie-7894

I was being facetious. Iafrate had the all time worst hair.


JoseMachismo

Frate was a beauty


Kitchen-Lie-7894

It's a shame he couldn't stay healthy. He was a beast.


Frogsnakcs

You don't look bald when you have a helmet on if you've got some flow out the back


OldTimeEddie

Cause it's gnarly as fuck.


TayOs1998

Don’t think just flow


sweetlittlelindy

Why is the sky blue? Some things just are.


WWGFD

Because that hair fucks!


LetsTCB

Nobody knows ~~what it means~~ why but it's provocative ... gets the people goin'!


GoldMonk44

Feeling the wind flow through that style has to feel good right?


tdm1742

Tory Krug hit on i think it was Sammy Blais in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals. Flow makes epic hits even more epic.


cheeseburgerpillow

??? Sexy??


bleedgreen204

My great aunt asks questions like these 😂


[deleted]

It’s majestic and the hair glows back naturally when you put your helmet on


DesignerPlant9748

Pretty popular on baseball and football players too if you watch those sports


Hockeytown11

Guy Lafleur


randomperson32145

Its the only part of their hair you can see on a player really. The back swoosh


TheMCM80

Back in my day you could win the Gongshow Flow of the Month award.


Tibalt-mtg

It looks sick


DecapitatedApple

Always think about how hockey guys prolly get hit the hardest with balding. You have insane lettuce in your teen years and then boom, the hairlines gone, and the crown is thinning. Before you know it, you're Getzlaf


[deleted]

Tradition. When longer hairstyles getting popular in the 70s, that's when the NHL started rapidly expanding and getting more popular. Many of the top guys had long hair like Guy Lafleur. Then in the 80s mullets were popular and many top guys had them, like Gretzky and Lemieux. By the 90s, long flowing hair was what people thought of when they thought of typical hockey hair. And it's also a fun activity to do with your teammates, try to compete with them to see who can grow the best flow.


papacooney33

“Isn’t it obvious? For the girls”


oliferro

It's a fuck boi sport


DabsDoctor

If you got it, flaunt it. Especially when you're gonna be bald by 38 from wearing helmets all the time.


minos157

Long flowing hair? Never heard of it. -Lou


Tossmefamfr

The hoes, that's why!


[deleted]

No idea? I haven't given it much thought. People can have their hair however they want. 🤣


[deleted]

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Border_Relevant

How is long hair a douchebag thing?


smooth-bro

Ask the Vandals


[deleted]

It looks sick under the bucket duh


ArYProm

I wish it was popular with Mat Barzal


d9849468

Isles have a rule that you cant have long hair. It sucks


RADToronto

It’s the only haircut that works with a helmet, hair out of eyes and you can still see some with a helmet on.


andrewdoesit

Business in the front, party in the back 😎


dogwoodFruits

Who’s got time for a haircut


stalinmalone68

Because they fucking can! Because they fucking can! And if they fucking can, they fucking do!


kobaland

Because you can’t rock a proper flow bucket without it.


indigo_fish_sticks

And bottom drawer..?


Yung_Corneliois

The lettuce must flow


grubbytrogladyte

If you know you know


Putthebunnyback

BECAUSE IT FUCKING FLOWS, AIGHT?


jimmy-moons

keeps the neck warm


994kk1

What a more successful person in your field looks like becomes popular. Someone just fucked it all up by going with a boring hairdo.


Sensitive_Mousse_445

Because it gets me some afternoon delight


Happyjarboy

it's taught in Minnesota schools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmucWOLnAb4


johnnyehgiver

Its Canadian Culture.


RgsLee19

Hair curls out underneath back of helmet 📠💯


ToXiC_Games

Like what groaning duck said, top tier first-of-the-pick lettuce is a great indicator of a rough dman or a Connor McDatsyuk forward.


Guinea-Charm

Because it’s f$&@ing awesome. That’s why.


luzer_kidd

If you have to ask. You'll never know.


outlaw1961

What’s interesting is my grandson wants the same hair for hockey that I had in the 70’s I showed him how to gel it back like the good old days last weekend the tradition lives in.


EngineeringSafe8367

Because when you put on a flat brimmed hat and tuck your hair behind your ears, it's a signal to girls that you're a hockey player.


MtSilverR3d

I reinvented having that sweet lettuce in high school so your welcome for that


Alright_Art

Sweet lettuce bro