PHOTO: Norwegian team Vålerenga play strip version of juice boy at training camp
Anyone who has played hockey at any level is familiar with the classic practice game "juice boy" or some variation thereof. The rules are simple: every player takes a shootout attempt, and the last to score has to do a punishment of some sort. When Dan Bylsma coached the Pittsburgh Penguins, for example, the team played a monthly game of "mustache boy" where the loser had to harvest fur on their upper lip.
What follows might be the most extreme version of the game, even more extreme than the "lemon boy" variation that theScore's Justin Bourne played during his time as a Division 1 NCAA player at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
The reigning champions of the GET-ligaean (the top professional league in Norway) is Oslo-based club Vålerenga IF. This week, Vålerenga opened their training camp and New York Rangers forward Mats Zuccarello was in attendance. At the end of the session, the players engaged in a game of what they apparently call "strippestraffer." For our purposes, "strip juice boy" is the more descriptive term.
Here's how the game works: you score, you keep your clothes on. If the goalies stop you, you have to remove a garment.
Zuccarello scored, by the way, but two players on his team - including captain
Brede Csiszár and new recruit Eric Salsten - weren't so lucky. Here are some photos from Vålerenga's nude-friendly version of juice boy:
[Courtesy Dagbladet, via Aftonbladet]
[Courtesy VG Sporten]
In a funny twist, goaltenders Glenn Jensen and Steffen Søberg got together and decided they would do everything in their power to prevent Csiszár from scoring. They were successful, of course, but why did they target Csiszár? It wasn't just his leadership position that made him a target, it was also his apparent affinity for skimpy swimwear.
"Söberg and I decided that he would not get to score so that all spectators would get to see the nice speedo (tanlines) he gained this summer," Jensen explained to VG Sporten (per Aftonbladet, via Google Translate).
That's just glorious:
[Photo courtesy Dagbladet]