from Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

As a young player for the St. Louis Blues, Rod Brind 'Amour was deadly serious.

His response to every development -- good, bad or ugly -- was to go lift some more weights. He was an uptight kid playing for an uptight coach, Brian Sutter, and he didn't become a star until he departed for the Philadelphia Flyers in the disastrous trade that brought Ron Sutter and Murray Baron to the STL.

These days Brind'Amour is coaching the Carolina Hurricanes and he wants the boys to cut loose. The 'Canes follow their home victories with choreographed on-ice team celebrations that irk NHL traditionalists.

“We want to have fun when you win," Brind'Amour explained to reporters earlier this season. "The game should be fun. We want the players to enjoy winning and the fans to enjoy being here. Our owner (colorful Tom Dundon) has been pushing that all the way. Why wouldn't you try something different?"

Well, because it's stupid. What would Brian Sutter think of a team staging a postgame "Duck, Duck, Goose" contest at center ice?

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Below, watch Duck, Duck, Goose.