There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street in which Donnie Azoff (played by Jonah Hill), under the influence of Quaaludes and the narration of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, tries to tell a room full of equally-inebriated people about his childhood friend, Steve Madden, and his women’s shoe empire.



Jeremy Bracco loves that scene. He can narrate it.



On Friday morning, shortly after wrapping up a practice at Coca Cola Coliseum, defenceman Steve Oleksy enters into Bracco’s chat with a reporter holding his stick high above him, as if as a microphone.



Bracco quickly quips back at his teammate, who shares the namesake of Azoff’s childhood friend.



“Steeeeeve,” he says, taking on the role of Belfort before turning back to the reporter. “This is Steve Madden, he’s women’s shoes. Get out of here, man! We always say ‘Steeeeeve,’ and then we call...