Posts Tagged ‘San Jose Sharks’
CHOMP! Sharks Give Back With Massive Team Bite
Sometimes it’s an individual player who shines as the charitable beacon of the team. Other times, it’s a larger contingent of the group. When it comes to one NHL team in San Jose, CA, however, the whole school of SHARKS is in on the action.
Photo: Lisa Cecconi
Hugbacker has had the good fortune of interviewing its fair share of hockey players, such as the Athletes Against Autism group, as well as the awesome Rick Nash. Amid all the chats, however, I’d never actually been to a hockey game in my life, professional or otherwise. So imagine the bizarre circumstance of finding myself at not one, but two NHL games in the past six weeks, courtesy of a girlfriend/San Jose Sharks season ticket holder. (Thanks, Mary!) While watching the game against the Minnesota Wild and learning how to do that shark bite thing with my arms whenever the ominous theme from Jaws begins during a power play, (not that I’m 100% sure what a power play is, mind you–still learning!), Mary suggested, “You should interview one of the Sharks for Hugbacker. They do a ton for the community,” and launched into a sampling of said deeds. Unable to escape such rabid enthusiasm–the girl has serious Sharklove–I did as told and contacted the Sharks office. And am very glad I did. These boys are awesome…
A few weeks later I found myself at a Sharks practice, snapping photos, watching drills, and standing in the locker room, waiting to chat with the heavily pad-clad bodies as they filtered in off the ice.
Photo: Lisa Cecconi
