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Many treat their bodies like the cash machines they are, and make sure those machines are as finely constructed and taken care of as possible.

As for drinking the day before a game, there’s maybe one or a few who would do it. There aren’t many and they don’t drink much.

3) I asked to interview Linden on this, instead the team released a statement. It read: “The assumptions made by Lee-Chin on hockey culture and reported by the Irish Times are baseless and categorically false.”

But it seems not all his “assumptions” were false. Lee talked about a current player who was with him at a luncheon with Guddy (pronounced Goody, turns out). He said this current player had a beer and Chin’s story checks out.

4) I’m thinking Lee Chin all but killed that TV show. What pro team is going to expose itself to something like this again?

5) Why wasn’t there some type of non-disclosure agreement signed?

6) Pretty sure the Canucks lawyered up and forced Chin to apologize.

BEST QUOTE I

Henrik on the change-up:

“The change-up? I’ve never had one in 20 years. I’ve never had 20 beers in a single night and never any the night before a game.

“I don’t know where he got those stories. Maybe it used to happen before.

“He spent the most part of his time with alumni.

“Most (current players) only met him quickly at a lunch.”

What did you think when you heard about it, though?

“I thought it was a good change from the mumps stories,” Henrik said. “We got to talk about something else other than mumps, so that was good.”

BEST QUOTE II

Philip Larsen, have you ever tried to bump a slump by going drinking?

“Go drinking, seriously?”

Ya, drinking. There’s a story here that to bust slumps players on the team will go out drinking 20 beers, you ever heard anything like that?

“No. No. No.”

Is that possible?

“Go out and drink 20 beers the night before a game? If I did that you wouldn’t see me for three or four days.

“If this was really a thing, I should have been going out regularly drinking 20 beers and I haven’t done that.”