It’s an old tradition with hockey teams. As soon as they make the post-season, the players stop shaving.
i never noticed it till last season (then again, im from Boston,& occasionally would watch the stanley cup series),,,but god, those beards must get pretty itchy by two weeks.
That's Mike Commodore, who played on the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup team a few years ago. If Ronald McDonald were an NHL player in the Stanley Cup playoffs, this is exactly what he'd look like.