It’s game night! No, not at the Grand Casino Arena. It’s team bonding game night, most likely hosted at the Spurgeon household, just like everything is. Don’t worry, there’s a large spread of snacks and drinks along with plenty of board game options. Let’s take a peek and see how everyone is doing.
Mentor/Mentee Relationship
Jared Spurgeon has set up a chessboard, and he was so excited to finally teach Brock Faber how to play and the strategy behind chess. Faber did his best to pay attention; he really did. But poor Spurgeon had to finally admit defeat when Faber wandered away.
Faber tried to suggest that he just really needed some more crackers and cheese from the charcuterie board, but Spurgeon knew exactly what he was headed for instead. Quinn Hughes stepped in to take over, and the Captain and former Captain spent the night quietly playing in the corner.
Moose’s Game of Choice
Marcus Foligno set up his game of choice, and Faber just couldn’t resist the siren song of Twister. Moose was really hoping that the goalies would join in with their flexibility, but they were too busy. Instead, Moose and Faber had to entice Nico Sturm and Marcus Johansson to join, and they were both too nice to say no.
Trivial Pursuit
The goalies were both too busy playing trivia games to show off how they do the splits. Mats Zuccarello, Jonas Brodin, and Joel Eriksson Ek joined in, but things almost came to blows when Zuccy and Ekkie started arguing about the correct answer to one of the questions. Ek was actually correct, and Zuccy knew that, but it was the whole principle of the thing.
Cards Against Humanity
The big winner of the night is Cards Against Humanity. Most of the boys don’t want a mentally or physically stimulating game, so they settle in for Cards Against Humanity.
Zach Bogosian is the leader and ensures everyone knows the rules and follows them. Matt Boldy stays quiet, but somehow pulls off a few surprise wins. Ryan Hartman and Vinnie Hinostroza surreptitiously tag-team to figure out how to pull off a coup and both win the game. Jake Middleton is terrible at the game because he just puts in whatever he thinks is funny, even if it doesn’t make sense. He giggles a lot and loses almost every round.
The Russians
Kirill Kaprizov makes sure all of the Russians come to board game night even though it really isn’t their jam. Danila Yurov, Vladimir Tarasenko, and Yakov Trenin are good sports, but mostly just watch the fun go down.
Kaprizov relents and plays one game of Twister because it’s hard to turn down Foligno. The others play a little Cards Against Humanity, but it slows the game down because they keep having to translate entries from Urban Dictionary into Russian to understand what the cards mean. Middleton gets impatient and wanders away to shotgun a beer.