Love the Mic’d Up Series!
Clearly the players ham it up a bit more when they’re mic’d up. Like when a Nashville Predators opponent asked Adam Burish during the October 13 game, “Got the mic on tonight?” implying Burish was being a bit more dramatic than usual, and Bur says “Is the dinosaur talkin’? Let the kids play dinosaur.” Too hilarious.
It reminded me of the game I saw in Rockford. They’re called Icehogs, but they should be called Icehams for their WWE-style antics (Sean McMorrow in particular). I’m all for a well-timed fight to boost morale, but some of these guys could be lucha libre wrestlers. And after having gone to a game in Rockford, I understand perfectly why Kris Versteeg said “I never wanna go back down to Rockford!”
Anyway, the mic’d up series is brill. When you’re at a game or you’re watching it on TV you’re always wondering what the guys are saying. Like when Jonathan Toews was mic’d up he disputed a hooking call and said to the ref as he climbed into the penalty box, “That’s brutal!” We all just had to laugh. Wouldn’t have missed that little gem of a sound bite for all the world. Hmm…I guess what Denis Lemieux says in Slapshot is true. “You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes, by yourself, you know and you feel shame…” But how would we have known without the mic’d up series?