Ryan Leonard is stroking in training

The rookie prank would come at some point. On Saturday, Ryan Leonard was stroked by his teammates in Washington Capitals into the yellow skate laces by Alex Ovechkin.

As part of a season of creation, Leonard took the ice cream in Medstar Capitals Iceplex with the skate laces. Leonard didn’t even notice that it was an OVI style.

“Looks good,” said Alex Ovechkin in a video posted by The Caps.

“No, not that,” replied Leonard.

Leonard would explain Tarik El-Bashir from Monumental Sports Network more.

“You put my ice skates in the other direction (in the locker level) so that I couldn’t see the laces. The boys just laughed. (Ovi) I had a good day today.”

Ryan Leonard

The prank of the yellow skate laces apparently dates back to at least 2019. In practice, the jokes usually aim at a young money that is Russian. This is the case when Alex Alexeyev and Ivan Miroshnichenko wore yellow laces during the development camp.

At Miroshnichenko, the players received help from the equipment, so that the goal of the prank does not have enough time to switch off the laces in front of the ICE meeting.

Alexeyev, Miroshnichenko and Leonard did it and former other caps players who did it belong to Sergei Fedorov and Ilya Kovalchuk.

The lines during the exercise were pretty familiar

Ovechkin-Strom-Strom-Strom-Ver

McMichael-Dubois-Wilson

Mangiapane Ocher-Leonard

Duhaime-Dowd Protas

Raddysh, Frank

Chychrun-Carlson

Sandin-Roy

Alexeyev-tvr

Mcilrath-Bahn

Thompson

Lindgren

Gibson

Spencer Carbery praised after the practice for Anthony Beauvillier, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Brandon Duhaime.

On Beauvilier, “a Swiss army knife player. But I have the feeling that the mental part of the intensity is very keel in these moments when it becomes situations.”

In TVR, Carbery said: “We needed more of several men on our backend with the loss of Marty Ferervary for the season. And I thought TVR was a guy who increased great time and increased his game.”

After all, Carbery would say to Duahime: “He is so positive, so much joy every day for a six -month season that traces a long, long way back.

Game 1 between the Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes to start the second round, takes place on Tuesday evening by the Capital One Arena on ESPN. We are still waiting for the season and the rest of the series plan.