There are some traditions in hockey that are synonymous with the sport itself.
For some reason, one of those traditions are not shaving your face during a playoff run, making playoff beards a very important part of a team’s postseason success.
This obviously mostly applies to junior and pro players, as clearly, most minor hockey players can’t grow a beard.
It’s tough enough for guys like Mitch Marner to get any sort of playoff facial hair going, so how are kids expected to do it?
And so, a new tradition was born in minor hockey rinks across the nation and their nearby hair salons.
Teams began dying their hair as a sign of team unity for playoff runs.
Interesting tactic.
The usual dye-job is a painful looking blond, but a minor hockey team in Saskatchewan, has put their own twist on the tradition.
While the Regina Pat Canadians team went with the blond look for the best-of-five Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League quarter-finals, their opponents, the Saskatoon Contacts, went with a pretty shocking orange.
Orange you glad we didn’t say orange?
Just kidding, we did say orange.
So far, blond is prevailing, and the Canadians are up 2-0 in the series, but we’ll see if the the orange hair has a big comeback in store.
