Gotta See It: Canucks play blind dodgeball

Culture change! The Vancouver Canucks wear goggles and piggy-back each other while navigating around tin plates.

When NHL clubs talk about “changing the culture” of the dressing room, that’s really p.r. speak for “We need more piggy-backing and blind dodgeball and goggles and tin-plate land mines.”

The Vancouver Canucks, responding well (5-3-0) since missing the playoffs for the first time in six years, believe it’s important for their players to bond as a group. And then upload that male bonding to YouTube:

The brains behind this series of team-building challenges, assistant coach Perry Pearn, designed the fun exercises to improve communication amongst the players and suss out the leaders.

Or maybe he just wondered what 12 dudes’ bare legs holding up a single water bucket would look like.

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