NHL prospect admits “I sh** on my girlfriend’s car.”

Uh… boys will be boys?

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NHL prospect admits “I sh** on my girlfriend’s car.”
The Athletic

With the NHL Entry Draft coming this weekend, general managers are busy meeting with prospective draft picks and picking their brains to get a sense of their personality. The time for on-ice scouting is over, now it’s time to get psychological. 

In her most recent column for The Athletic, Katie Strang managed to get some incredible stories from some NHL GMs about their most memorable prospect interviews, but one in particular stands out.

Check this out:

‘Did you take a shit on a car?’
It was the 2010 combine and one of the top draft-eligible prospects was the talk of the NHL community, not so much for his play but for some of the alleged antics that earned him a substantial suspension from his team that year. When word started to trickle out about what he had done, it spread like wildfire, with teams scrambling to confirm whether the grisly (or at least gross) details were indeed true. Did this player really get caught, pants down, defecating on a car in a moment of teenage hijinks?
“That’s all anyone wanted to know,” said one person who attended the combine that year and knew the question every team was asking: ‘Hey, we heard you shit on a car.’”
One team executive remembers the player being savvy enough to tacitly acknowledge the act while artfully dodging further questions. Another remembered him being much more outright with his transgression.
“We didn’t even have to ask,” the executive recalled. “He walks in, very confident, sits in the chair, no hello’s, no ‘how are you doing?’ no breaking into (small talk). He just said, ‘Yup, it’s true. I shit on my girlfriend’s car.'”
The entire scouting staff dissolved into laughter and struggled to make use of the rest of their time. Each time they’d try to revert back into serious question mode, they’d howl and giggle again.
“I’ve never seen anything like it before and nothing like it since,” the exec said. “It was absurd.  I mean he did handle it well for a kid who crapped on a car.”
A handful of other team staffers whose clubs interviewed him gave him credit for owning up to what was an embarrassing-albeit-uproarious topic.
“He’d say, ‘Yeah, you make some mistakes. You live and you learn,’” one person with knowledge of the situation recalled.
The player did not necessarily live and learn: He got caught relieving himself in public again while in college and, after forgetting his pants at the scene of the crime, had to sheepishly return to retrieve his clothes. Luckily for the player, the car owner was a season ticket-holder for the team he played for and opted not to press charges; instead, he simply asked that the mess be cleaned up.


Uh… boys will be boys? 

For more stories, check out Strang's article below:


Source: Katie Strang