from Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,

The locker stalls around the Spoked-B are not exactly a model United Nations. They are filled, however, with players ages 21 to 42, from six countries: 14 Americans, four Canadians, two Slovaks, two Swedes, two Czechs, and one Finn. Like any collection of two dozen adults, they have interests both divergent and common.

Brad Marchand is an avid bowhunter. David Backes is passionate about animal rights. Charlie McAvoy surfs. Zdeno Chara cycles. David Krejci plays tennis. Tuukka Rask plays the drums.

Jake DeBrusk, among several others, is a gamer (he prefers Fortnite, while Sean Kuraly plays Madden with Chris Wagner, and others play NHL). Backes, Brandon Carlo, and several others are united by their shared Christian faith. At least a dozen spend their free time parenting young children, with Torey Krug soon to join their ranks.

To a man, everyone knows his way around a golf course. (It is a hockey team, after all.)

It is a conscientious, intelligent, mature group that is considerably short on one quality:

“For lack of a better way to put it,” defenseman John Moore said, “there’s no [boneheads].”

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