Henrik Sedin loses his shoes trying to retrieve ball
Pregame soccer ritual goes awry, Canucks teammates come to rescue
ByNHL.com @NHLdotcom
It's a good thing the Vancouver Canucks aren't a soccer team, or they might end up playing barefoot.
Hang on, we can explain. Henrik Sedin and Erik Gudbranson were playing a little pregame soccer in Dallas before playing the Stars Friday night. The ball got stuck up on a light fixture. But the story, tweeted in its entirety by the Canucks Twitter account, is just starting.
The ball was stuck on the light. So Henrik Sedin threw his shoe at it.
Obviously not feeling discouraged by the result of his previous attempt, Sedin tried to retrieve the first shoe with his second shoe. You can imagine how that went.
With both of Sedin's shoes stuck up on the light fixture, it was now time to employ a hockey stick. That got one shoe down, but they are, of course, a pair. It took Luca Sbisa putting Alexandre Burrows on his shoulders to get Sedin's second shoe.