When an NHL player takes the ice for warm-up, they can sometimes go into a little bubble and forget about their surroundings. Remember the Taylor Hall incident from a few years ago?
With pucks flying like the flow coming out a player’s helmet, warm-up presents a high-energy period where players get amped up for the big game. Signs in the crowd, energy drinks, hot tracks being blasted on the sound system or a fired up teammate are just some of few examples that gets the boys going.
Prior to the Kings and Jets game in Winnipeg on Tuesday night, Drew Doughty was feeling himself in warm-up, perhaps a little too much.
Doughty appeared to have been shouting at a teammate across the ice, and flailed his arms and stick to get their attention. Skating behind Doughty was Anze Kopitar, who narrowly just missed getting high sticked by Doughty.
Two minutes for (almost) high sticking your own teammate! Doughty is the king of the no-teeth smile, so perhaps he just wanted Kopitar to start rockin' that same look.
Luckily for Kopitar he was fine, and registered his 82nd point of the season setting up the Kings only goal in their 2-1 overtime loss to the Jets.
