Ryan Reaves engages in bizarre pregame ritual before Game 7.
What is he doing?
They say that hockey players are a superstitious bunch, and New York Rangers enforcer Ryan Reaves may have just exemplified that better than anyone else has before ahead of the all important Game 7 he and the Rangers are set to play against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Reaves was recorded after setting up a bunch of water bottles along the boards and then knocking them off in a variety of different ways. Some of the bottles were given the soft and sweet treatment with Reaves giving each one of them a kiss before gently pushing them over, while others were treated more violently with quick swings of his head to send those ones flying. It was the last 3 bottles that got the harshest treatment of all though with Reaves using his stick to dispatch all 3, spraying the Rangers equipment staff with water in the process.
I'm not quite sure what spirit Reaves may have been trying to channel here:
