The Detroit Red Wings Find Out Shooting And Ducking Pucks Doesn’t Prepare You For Law Enforcement

Whenever we’re guilted into watching hockey by the damn media who hypes up a game (as much as an NHL game can be hyped nowadays), we remember how fun a sport it actually is to watch. But then we find out Cristiano Ronaldo did something stupid and it wipes the ice kings from our minds until the next hyped game (four months from now). Maybe if more teams took the time to build a community bond with local law enforcement like the Detroit Red Wings did yesterday when they played Paintball with a SWAT team, maybe they’d be more in the zeitgeist. Well, we say “local” law enforcement, but it was really in Huntington Beach where the Wings were getting ready to play the Anaheim Ducks. We fear if they were to actually train with the Detroit SWAT team, it would end up like Tropic Thunder, only less funny and more Norwegian.

“I got pinned down by (Dan Cleary, Andreas Lilja, Niklas Lidstrom and Brett Lebda), ran out of bullets, locked myself in a bathroom and surrendered,” [Wings Centre Kris Draper] said. “It wasn’t fair. These guys kept leaving the room to get more clips, I found out. I just had what I had.” Draper had welts from being hit in the shoulder and thigh, and took a shot in the visor.

“(Lebda) got me right between the eyes, that would have been game over,” Draper said. “I wouldn’t have been a good bad guy.”

Well, we think we know how a team can find it new enforcer once theirs gets suspended… painball fights! Well, it beats the previous method—entering the locker room wearing slabs of beef and fighting off French police dogs.
That is the old method, isn’t it?
Red Wings spend day at SWAT team exercise [mlive.com]
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