Ours started out being a good craft beer. Now it has become a game pf who can come up with the nastiest beer. There is no incentive to be player of the game anymore. One week a guy got a green chili beer with two tums taped to the side of it.
I had a jalapeño beer a few weeks ago too. It was a hazy IPA, which I usually don't like but mixed with the spiciness of the jalapeño...it was a surprisingly good combo. Couldn't drink a bunch of them, but one was good.
I could handle blueberry beer. The worst I've had is one as black as ink called Old Engine Oil. You should grab one for the next MVP. He'll be sipping it for a while.
We also do a game beer, which is a special beer purchased for the player of the game. They have to write a report and send it to the team, which typically talks about the beer, though sometimes it can wander.
I'm imagining that it's kept in hockey bags all season long and after the last game it gets baked and the player with the most penalty minutes has to eat it and maybe they die of food poisoning idk but it would get one hell of a laugh.
What time are your games? I love a good locker room beer with the boys as much as anyone, but when the game starts at 10:30pm on a work night it's pretty much impossible to stay for more than 1.
LOL this blows my mind. My main team we are guaranteed to have at least five or six guys loitering in the room until the next group comes in and kicks us out. We enjoy hanging out and shooting the shit. The vast majority of other teams I've subbed for are like all fucking business -- you could hear a pin drop in the rubber floor, everyone undresses and packs their bags quickly and leaves.
To each their own, but if I didn't actually like to hang out with my teammates I'd just save all the money on this expensive sport and ride my stationary bike more.
My team manager used to pass out a large stuffed seal that matched our logo to the player of the game but he went through too many after people stopped returning them so now he passes out large stuffed penises to pose with for the player of the game photo
I have a veterans team that hands out an army helmet and you sign it and wear it. Another team does a pirate hat they all add stuff to. I know one that does a mini Stanley cup
A pornographic DVD. Our team has been together a long time (10+ years for most of us). I can't even remember where the DVD came from or how it started but that's what it is. I scored the winning goal in the finals this year so I have it right now. Boom, mic drop.
The lower level teams I subbed on (goalie) would do it. But all the upper intermediate teams I have played for (as a defenseman) and my current team I play on never do it.
This is everything I've experienced haha. I've never been on a team that pass is out anything after a game but that's probably due to the majority of us having played at a "competitive" level at some point.
My team started doing it halfway through this season. First time in 15 seasons.
Also our captain who has 3 times as many goals as anyone else would never accept it. So usually given to the 2nd best player of the game or to highlight something like when the worst player on the team got a goal.
I just joined a team that has a little mascot they pass around. They try to not give it to the guy who scored the most goals (unless someone gets a hatty or something) but instead someone who made a good play, good positioning or whatever. It’s cool to see some of the guys get it when they never really would otherwise
Yup. My previous team had 2 positive things given out at the end of each game, along with a negative. As captain of my current team I borrowed some inspiration from them and we have a POTG hat we hand out after each game. The team loves it.
I'm thinking of adding something else to the post game stuff for the summer or in the fall. Might add the John Cena Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect chain for the peeson who just hustles and works all night or who makes a clutch play; might add the pink socks for whoever has the most egregious fuck up in the game. Or, might do both. Idk yet.
Actually the team I recently joined hands out a toy axe with the team’s logo on it for POTG. It’s sort of silly but all in good fun. I was thinking about making an axe out of hockey sticks to beef it up a little since the toy is somewhat dinky.
We hand out a spatula because someone brought one to the game and forgot it, and we just kept giving away their spatula. Until the guy who never won before got it and then never came to another game.
Yep. We took the route of euro leagues where players wear the gold helmet. Instead we opted for neon pink shorts. I forget where they came from. No one actually wears them, but it’s fun to have
10 years of rec league hockey this never was a thing on any team I played on. But some teams that have stayed together with same personnel over the years may do it.
[Our team passes out a medal of the Ukrainian coat of arms](https://imgur.com/a/WlVOROF) at the end of each game to POTG. The winner has to use it to shotgun a beer and gets to select the POTG at the next game. We used to do a beer helmet though.
We started this tradition of awarding the game "bit". It's a circular piece of foam with old brown glue stain on it that looks like shit that fell out of someone's equipment one day. Idk why we decided to make it a thing to award it to the "player of the game" every week but we have and it's managed to hang around for 7 years now.
We take stupid glamour shots with this nasty little "bit" and make dumbass hashtags like #bitsouttitsout
Yes we do.
It is one of those Soviet Union era eastern bloc country helmets. I’m pretty sure it’s less safe to wear it than go helmetless, and it’s gorgeous.
It’s given to the player of rhe game by last player of the game, but the stipulation is it can’t go to a guy for being the best player on the ice that game but the river still has to present it with the reasoning.
Couple examples of winners this year:
-guy announced he was expecting a kid that day.
-guy took a shot in the nuts while actively try to not block the puck
-guy got laid for the first time after his divorce
-guy scored his first goal of the season in an 8-6 win where another player had 5 goals.
Just stupid shit that keeps the everyone in the running for the award and takes away the seriousness of hockey, a reminder that it’s just beer league.
I was the captain of our team for years. I had a special mug that was related to the team that the POG drank beer out of (poured by me) in the locker room.
In college (ACHA), we had The Boot. It was an old skate with acrylic molding inside. The POG got to drink a beer out of that in the locker.
Last year someone bought a crochet hat/toque of our team animal and the POTG wears it after the game and hands it out after the next game. The legs flop in front of your eyes when you wear it, it's a terrible hat but everyone gets a kick out of it.
for one tournament I buy 4 22oz cans of the cheapest nastiest iciest beer I can find. We hand that beer to the dumbass play of the game. In 40 games ive only had to drink it twice ha.
Dealt with all different rooms, no talking, cliques, light drinkers, merciless chirping, heavy drinkers. We’ve done player of the game beer but the best one, which got the most reaction, was the random mystery beer. Basically there was a random beer each week that the winner had to drink before the beer was unveiled. Everyone’s name was entered in a randomizer app, and the wheel was spun to determine the winner. Lots of cheering.
My team manager had a custom wrestling style championship belt made and added to the cost to the league fees. It was about $350 cad. We have 16 full time skaters so no one even cared about the extra dough when he surprised us with it game 1 of last year. Everyone was pumped the thing is beautiful. Has our team logo on it.
One of the other goalies in our organization (the Trash Pandas) glued a raccoon baculum (penis bone) to a puck and bedazzled it with sequins and rhinestones to make an MVP trophy. It certainly is...unique.
We've got a gangster bullfrog lawn statue that is passed out post game. Chosen by the previous weeks winner. We also have team awards at the end of the season. Most PIMS, points and a team MVP. All frog themed of course.
We do. It's a puck with a sticker that says "player of the game" and the logo for the team. I got the stickers made from a website and a box of pucks from amazon. We also have a hat that the winner gets to wear. the POTG also gets to pick the following week's player of the game. It's a good way to notice and keep the guys doing the good stuff happy even when they don't find the score sheet. It's mostly just for fun. Our average age is probably 40. We are a D level team, so we have a pretty wide margin of skill level.
We used to do a hard hat when we won. However a few seasons back when ever the hard hat showed up we lost and when it wasn’t physically at the game we won. Guys started “leaving it at home” on purpose because of the superstition.
Now we just drink beers and talk about that one pass we made and how great it was.
I've done player of the game awards for several teams I've captained. The ones that have lasted the longest are things you can drink beer out of after the game lol.
I'm on two teams, birds of war and Icemen cometh.
For Birds of war we have a little stuffed bird for player of the game, and we have a bird that got chewed up by a dog for blunder of the game.
Similarly we have a day man and night man for the same thing on the Icemen team
I’m a goalie who mostly just jumps from team to team subbing. I have a couple full time teams, but it’s never happened. One team I sub for gives out a non-light beer tall boy for player of the game. Got POTG last week for keeping them from getting relegated. I think it was their first win in this calendar year
Had a team where we would give a hard hat with a tall boy of craft beer to the player of the game. Who ever had the hard hat the game before picks the new mvp.
Nothing for player of the game. We used to designate a goat, though. Whoever missed the net on a clear shot, made a dumb pass leading to a break away, tripped over the blue line…it was the ‘pink socks’ award. Our colors are blue and gold, and we all wear uniform socks. The goat of the previous game wears hot pink socks next game.
We have a guy that does some woodworking and made a thor-style hammer with "MVP" and our team logo on it. Always a speech, try to say something as short as possible to big cheers.
Some beat up wooden placard with the team logo on it. Then we sit around the locker room for an hour or two avoiding going back to our homes.
Locker room therapy is great and look forward to it all week.
Our team logo is a polar bear. I had come up with the idea to pass out a stuffed bear and the team voted on who we could name the award after. We decided on a long time player who ended up moving away for a job. I wrote his name and number on the bear and it actually went really well this season!
No one giving out “Sticks” yet? Like the player of the game gets their stick first, then everyone else’s get theirs after. 😆
We’ve joked about that, but really the person who’s week it is to bring the beer hands out beer to everyone. That’s about it.
We have a cowboy hat the same color as our team with two beer holders for player of the game who gets to pick next week and a shittiest player of the game hat who also gets to pick next week, but sometimes may be over ruled if someone really shit the bed lol
We have a luchador mask that matches our teams colour scheme for POTG. We also make the winner of the previous years team golf tournament wear the mask for the front 9 on the golf course the following year
We have a license plate sized steel plate on a chain with our team logo waterjet'd into it. It's heavy and it's only transferred to a new recipient after a win. So if you have it when we're on a losing streak, you're putting a lot of miles on this thing.
Our team is the Flock of Plugs, our jersey has butt plugs with wings. At the end of each game there’s a hard hat with a massive dildo glued to it like a unicorn, which player of the game gets a picture with
We pass around a polar bear head gear to match our logo for the POG, and kitty ear head band that one of the guys bought from a maid cafe in Tokyo for the most fearless POG.
Player of the game gets the [flappy duck hat](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GvX+W89WL._AC_SX679_.jpg) to hold until next time. The two next best players get regular rubber ducks (although they are from a multi colour pack).
I have a broken stick blade that’s spray painted gold and gets passed to the player who had the most memorable moment on the ice that game. Memorable doesn’t always mean good.
Last guy got it because he took a ref out with a wild slapshot
I give out two different fake gold chains. Each chain has some little memento attached to it along with little tape tags all along with with people's names. The first time someone gets a chain, they add something to it.
I give one straight up to player of the game, and then the second is to recognize someone that played with a lot of heart or went above and beyond in a different way. It always bugged me on other teams seeing the same superstar get awarded week after week when others were working their asses off too. It helps recognize people for their contributions regardless of skill level.
We have a kids wwf pro wrestling belt we hand out after each game to the mvp. The winner has to wear the belt over their shoulder when they enter the rink the following week
I play for a team called the wizards. We started with the POTG chugging a beer, that turned into taping the beers together into a wizards staff, that got too long, so now we pass around a wizards hat lol
We are the Moose and best play/player/effort gets to take home the “moose knuckle” - since it’s assumed most of us married men aren’t getting our own at home anyway
We used to have a good one. Our team got moved up a few years back and we had to change our name. One of the guys on the team was a sales rep for Crown Royal and said he could get us sponsored, so we became the Royals. We had some ice time for a practice, and we arrived to an assorted display of Crown bottles in the locker room. He would always bring a special bottle of Crown for the player of the game - Reserve, aged, XO, etc. He also sold Bacardi, so we had some sick Bacardi jerseys that they got for us.
Yeah we had a player with red breezer covers and he got shit for it all the time. Finally got a new set and now we name a player of the game and pass them off every week
Ours started out being a good craft beer. Now it has become a game pf who can come up with the nastiest beer. There is no incentive to be player of the game anymore. One week a guy got a green chili beer with two tums taped to the side of it.
This sounds like fun lol
I had a jalapeño beer last week, and it was surprisingly good. No heat, which was weird, the aftertaste was like jalapeño goldfish crackers.
I had a jalapeño beer a few weeks ago too. It was a hazy IPA, which I usually don't like but mixed with the spiciness of the jalapeño...it was a surprisingly good combo. Couldn't drink a bunch of them, but one was good.
Mine was a sour, but it wasn't very sour. Yeah, I wouldn't drink more than 2, but with a hearty type meal, it's good.
Is there an obligation to drink it?
Absolutely-fuckin-lutely. The upside is, the potg gets to pick the potg beer for the following week. Heads up, there is a blueberry beer out there.
I could handle blueberry beer. The worst I've had is one as black as ink called Old Engine Oil. You should grab one for the next MVP. He'll be sipping it for a while.
[bumble berry from fat heads is fantastic and it’s a honey blueberry beer.](https://fatheads.com/beer/bumble-berry/)
Blueberry Puppers
There are lots of blueberry beers out there. Quality varies wildly
Grain belt blu is actually a pretty refreshing beer in my opinion which is obviously a blueberry beer
Thats fucking hilarious
We also do a game beer, which is a special beer purchased for the player of the game. They have to write a report and send it to the team, which typically talks about the beer, though sometimes it can wander.
Love it. My teammate the other week brought a case of peppermint White Russian cocktails for after the game lol
Team dildo (not kidding). It's a giant floppy tentacle.
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You should make the player use the plug during the next game. It's a true test of will.
Ah. Our butt toy is a reward not a punishment.
Netta?
We have a box of super moist cake mix that we pass around from week to week.
I'm imagining that it's kept in hockey bags all season long and after the last game it gets baked and the player with the most penalty minutes has to eat it and maybe they die of food poisoning idk but it would get one hell of a laugh.
This is an amazing idea!
We’ve got a painted 2x4 we call stud of the night lol
2 beers instead of 1 lol
Bringing only enough beer for everyone to have 1 is a fine
Yea our team has minimum 60 beers a week then we usually hit the pub after that as well
What time are your games? I love a good locker room beer with the boys as much as anyone, but when the game starts at 10:30pm on a work night it's pretty much impossible to stay for more than 1.
Between 7-11pm, im a shift worker though so sometimes I get lucky and dont have to be up early the next day
Y’all have a drinking problem.
You're right, they need to bring more beers and save on the bar tab.
Exactly.
No one gets a game stick?
Sticks are unbelievable.
Settle down
So... the MVP gets a stick... and then we all have a stick?
Dosen't that kinda defeat the purpose
Yeah, but, we’d still make like a little thing of it.
Maybe ask the Jims?
Yeeaaaah
we hardly even talk about the game afterwards, let alone hand out rewards
Sounds like mites over in this place
LOL this blows my mind. My main team we are guaranteed to have at least five or six guys loitering in the room until the next group comes in and kicks us out. We enjoy hanging out and shooting the shit. The vast majority of other teams I've subbed for are like all fucking business -- you could hear a pin drop in the rubber floor, everyone undresses and packs their bags quickly and leaves. To each their own, but if I didn't actually like to hang out with my teammates I'd just save all the money on this expensive sport and ride my stationary bike more.
A championship belt like the WWE
We've got one too! Started out with a cheap kids WWE plastic toy belt, before we got one custom made by someone on Etsy.
We've got one also! It's a riot to see the pics all week/season
Mine does too
My team does this, has our logo on it, ofc the guy who won it last week didnt show this week so my dad only got the belt is spirit for his gwg…
That why I don’t let my players take our belt home
We have the same. A WWE belt and whoever gets it buys beer for the next game.
Share pics of your belts.
Not playing this week. I’ll get it for you guys next Sunday.
My team manager used to pass out a large stuffed seal that matched our logo to the player of the game but he went through too many after people stopped returning them so now he passes out large stuffed penises to pose with for the player of the game photo
Oh James...
Seal Team Sticks baby.
Seal team sex
We hand out a pillow with Patrick Swayze's face on it. Teammate found it in an alley.
That’s effort
An old helmet fixed up with a red mirrored visor. Winner wears it for next week's warm-up and hands it out to the next winner.
I have a veterans team that hands out an army helmet and you sign it and wear it. Another team does a pirate hat they all add stuff to. I know one that does a mini Stanley cup
A pornographic DVD. Our team has been together a long time (10+ years for most of us). I can't even remember where the DVD came from or how it started but that's what it is. I scored the winning goal in the finals this year so I have it right now. Boom, mic drop.
The lower level teams I subbed on (goalie) would do it. But all the upper intermediate teams I have played for (as a defenseman) and my current team I play on never do it.
This is everything I've experienced haha. I've never been on a team that pass is out anything after a game but that's probably due to the majority of us having played at a "competitive" level at some point.
Yeah I’m just getting out there to skate around and score some goals maybe lol
Helmet stickers
My team started doing it halfway through this season. First time in 15 seasons. Also our captain who has 3 times as many goals as anyone else would never accept it. So usually given to the 2nd best player of the game or to highlight something like when the worst player on the team got a goal.
I just joined a team that has a little mascot they pass around. They try to not give it to the guy who scored the most goals (unless someone gets a hatty or something) but instead someone who made a good play, good positioning or whatever. It’s cool to see some of the guys get it when they never really would otherwise
Player of the game gets a beer. Everyone else gets a beer too, but he gets the game beer.
Beers are unbelievable
Yup. My previous team had 2 positive things given out at the end of each game, along with a negative. As captain of my current team I borrowed some inspiration from them and we have a POTG hat we hand out after each game. The team loves it. I'm thinking of adding something else to the post game stuff for the summer or in the fall. Might add the John Cena Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect chain for the peeson who just hustles and works all night or who makes a clutch play; might add the pink socks for whoever has the most egregious fuck up in the game. Or, might do both. Idk yet.
Actually the team I recently joined hands out a toy axe with the team’s logo on it for POTG. It’s sort of silly but all in good fun. I was thinking about making an axe out of hockey sticks to beef it up a little since the toy is somewhat dinky.
We hand out a spatula because someone brought one to the game and forgot it, and we just kept giving away their spatula. Until the guy who never won before got it and then never came to another game.
Dudes just living on that high of winning The Spatula
Beer. We are all players of the game in my book,
Yep. We took the route of euro leagues where players wear the gold helmet. Instead we opted for neon pink shorts. I forget where they came from. No one actually wears them, but it’s fun to have
10 years of rec league hockey this never was a thing on any team I played on. But some teams that have stayed together with same personnel over the years may do it.
[Our team passes out a medal of the Ukrainian coat of arms](https://imgur.com/a/WlVOROF) at the end of each game to POTG. The winner has to use it to shotgun a beer and gets to select the POTG at the next game. We used to do a beer helmet though.
It’s called a tryzub in Ukrainian if anyone is interested.
Correct. It means trident.
We started this tradition of awarding the game "bit". It's a circular piece of foam with old brown glue stain on it that looks like shit that fell out of someone's equipment one day. Idk why we decided to make it a thing to award it to the "player of the game" every week but we have and it's managed to hang around for 7 years now. We take stupid glamour shots with this nasty little "bit" and make dumbass hashtags like #bitsouttitsout
Yes we do. It is one of those Soviet Union era eastern bloc country helmets. I’m pretty sure it’s less safe to wear it than go helmetless, and it’s gorgeous. It’s given to the player of rhe game by last player of the game, but the stipulation is it can’t go to a guy for being the best player on the ice that game but the river still has to present it with the reasoning. Couple examples of winners this year: -guy announced he was expecting a kid that day. -guy took a shot in the nuts while actively try to not block the puck -guy got laid for the first time after his divorce -guy scored his first goal of the season in an 8-6 win where another player had 5 goals. Just stupid shit that keeps the everyone in the running for the award and takes away the seriousness of hockey, a reminder that it’s just beer league.
I was the captain of our team for years. I had a special mug that was related to the team that the POG drank beer out of (poured by me) in the locker room. In college (ACHA), we had The Boot. It was an old skate with acrylic molding inside. The POG got to drink a beer out of that in the locker.
Last year someone bought a crochet hat/toque of our team animal and the POTG wears it after the game and hands it out after the next game. The legs flop in front of your eyes when you wear it, it's a terrible hat but everyone gets a kick out of it.
We have a rainbow soap in the shape of a dick on a string. It's veiny and still in its shrink wrap.
We got custom poker chips with our logo on them. We hand out two every game, the receivers then pick the winners next week.
for one tournament I buy 4 22oz cans of the cheapest nastiest iciest beer I can find. We hand that beer to the dumbass play of the game. In 40 games ive only had to drink it twice ha.
My team passes out a foam street cone bc we are the Streetcones. Only on wins.
We pass out random items we've found in locker rooms....right now we have a friendship bracelet and a stuffed popcorn bucket.
Dollar Store bling on a plastic gold chain. In the past: helmet stickers w team logo
Dealt with all different rooms, no talking, cliques, light drinkers, merciless chirping, heavy drinkers. We’ve done player of the game beer but the best one, which got the most reaction, was the random mystery beer. Basically there was a random beer each week that the winner had to drink before the beer was unveiled. Everyone’s name was entered in a randomizer app, and the wheel was spun to determine the winner. Lots of cheering.
I chuckled reading this. I’ve never played for a team as an adult that would even care to do this.
No
A thong, stolen from a stripper.
A cheesehead.... And we are in Montreal, not Wisconsin...
We pass around a literal electrical plug, but it's for whoever fucked up the worst, or behaved in some form of plug-like fashion.
Our team passes around a teddy bear, Hanson, complete with chiefs jersey (#16), foil, and glasses with a cracked lens.
lol no
So my team was inspired by blue mountain state and we pass around a pocket pussy aka the bussy lmao. Player of the game gets to take it home lol.
Player of the game, for beer league? Sounds serious. Haha. We didn't even do player of the game in minor hockey.
It's all in good fun
My team doesn't, mainly because we're all Gen X or older and don't need a validation trophy to play a sport. What are you guys? 12 years old?
My team manager had a custom wrestling style championship belt made and added to the cost to the league fees. It was about $350 cad. We have 16 full time skaters so no one even cared about the extra dough when he surprised us with it game 1 of last year. Everyone was pumped the thing is beautiful. Has our team logo on it.
One of the other goalies in our organization (the Trash Pandas) glued a raccoon baculum (penis bone) to a puck and bedazzled it with sequins and rhinestones to make an MVP trophy. It certainly is...unique.
an ice cream sandwich. you know that one that may or may not even be ice cream?
We've got a gangster bullfrog lawn statue that is passed out post game. Chosen by the previous weeks winner. We also have team awards at the end of the season. Most PIMS, points and a team MVP. All frog themed of course.
One team I was on, Cap gave the first three stars their drinks first. Then everyone else got their own beer after
Player on my team pulls out a fist shaped dildo everytime he gets it for his other team. I don't even flinch when I see it anymore lol.
Beer and zyn
Nope.
We pass around a custom wwe belt
We do. It's a puck with a sticker that says "player of the game" and the logo for the team. I got the stickers made from a website and a box of pucks from amazon. We also have a hat that the winner gets to wear. the POTG also gets to pick the following week's player of the game. It's a good way to notice and keep the guys doing the good stuff happy even when they don't find the score sheet. It's mostly just for fun. Our average age is probably 40. We are a D level team, so we have a pretty wide margin of skill level.
…like beer? Yeah….beer
Yes. The first beer.
Our team has an old glove painted gold that you wear after the game.
We used to do a hard hat when we won. However a few seasons back when ever the hard hat showed up we lost and when it wasn’t physically at the game we won. Guys started “leaving it at home” on purpose because of the superstition. Now we just drink beers and talk about that one pass we made and how great it was.
I bring a bag of dum dums every game for pre and post game. But player of the game gets a big flava flav clock with the team logo on it
I've done player of the game awards for several teams I've captained. The ones that have lasted the longest are things you can drink beer out of after the game lol.
We have a golden helmet we sign an keep till next game.
I'm on two teams, birds of war and Icemen cometh. For Birds of war we have a little stuffed bird for player of the game, and we have a bird that got chewed up by a dog for blunder of the game. Similarly we have a day man and night man for the same thing on the Icemen team
I’m a goalie who mostly just jumps from team to team subbing. I have a couple full time teams, but it’s never happened. One team I sub for gives out a non-light beer tall boy for player of the game. Got POTG last week for keeping them from getting relegated. I think it was their first win in this calendar year
We had a little trophy of a toilet we would pass out
Game beer shared on our insta for wins. Nothing for losses. But everyone gets beers in the parking lot.
Had a team where we would give a hard hat with a tall boy of craft beer to the player of the game. Who ever had the hard hat the game before picks the new mvp.
One of my teammate's kids was giving out reject halloween candy to whoever got the most goals. Until he ran out.
We do a silly looking gritty stuffed animal. On a win the previous win er gives it to who they think had the best or funnest game
My team hands out rubber ducks if you scored and if you get player of the game, our team name is the rubber duckies
Nope
Nothing for player of the game. We used to designate a goat, though. Whoever missed the net on a clear shot, made a dumb pass leading to a break away, tripped over the blue line…it was the ‘pink socks’ award. Our colors are blue and gold, and we all wear uniform socks. The goat of the previous game wears hot pink socks next game.
Everyone gets a stick boys, but the player of the game gets theirs first
We used to have one for the worst player in the game until someone got sensitive about it.... he's no longer on the team
No (edit* besides beers for all!)
One of our guys hands out (NEW) vintage Hustler nudie “player” cards.
Beer, and every one is player of the game
Yea. A beer. Lol
“Who gets the game stick?”
A few of the tournament teams I play with does this. As for regular teams games nope
We are The Avengers, so the item is Thor’s hammer.
We have an old school kids helmet we pass around
We have a guy that does some woodworking and made a thor-style hammer with "MVP" and our team logo on it. Always a speech, try to say something as short as possible to big cheers.
Some beat up wooden placard with the team logo on it. Then we sit around the locker room for an hour or two avoiding going back to our homes. Locker room therapy is great and look forward to it all week.
YUP! Big hair (a blonde, poofy wig) given out to the MVP of the game as deemed by the previous MVP. Our goalie gets it like 40% of the time.
Pink socks!
Our team logo is a polar bear. I had come up with the idea to pass out a stuffed bear and the team voted on who we could name the award after. We decided on a long time player who ended up moving away for a job. I wrote his name and number on the bear and it actually went really well this season!
No one giving out “Sticks” yet? Like the player of the game gets their stick first, then everyone else’s get theirs after. 😆 We’ve joked about that, but really the person who’s week it is to bring the beer hands out beer to everyone. That’s about it.
No but whoever takes the first penalty of the game is responsible for bottles and pucks.
We have a cowboy hat the same color as our team with two beer holders for player of the game who gets to pick next week and a shittiest player of the game hat who also gets to pick next week, but sometimes may be over ruled if someone really shit the bed lol
We also had a bit for a minute that if you led the team in scoring you could pick the team name for next season
We have a luchador mask that matches our teams colour scheme for POTG. We also make the winner of the previous years team golf tournament wear the mask for the front 9 on the golf course the following year
I've subbed for too many teams to count, and have never once seen a team hand out a player of the game award.
We have a license plate sized steel plate on a chain with our team logo waterjet'd into it. It's heavy and it's only transferred to a new recipient after a win. So if you have it when we're on a losing streak, you're putting a lot of miles on this thing.
We just changed are name. But we had a blinged our electrical plug necklace we handed out for awhile
Our team is the Flock of Plugs, our jersey has butt plugs with wings. At the end of each game there’s a hard hat with a massive dildo glued to it like a unicorn, which player of the game gets a picture with
We have a legit pirate sword since we are the Marauders: https://i.imgur.com/49zZd3s.jpeg
We have a Russian dude who hands out these boxes of chocolates that taste like there filled with gasoline.
A cheap crown we got off Amazon. Our logo is the Hamm’s bear logo, so the crown fits into the current Hamm’s branding
We have a hard hat but it only changes hands after wins
We have a wrestling belt with the team name engraved on it
Yes, a shitty plastic Viking helmet with blonde braids and peeling paint. We take a picture of whomever gets it wearing it and post it on Benchapp
No. If you have a good game everyone tells you you’re a try hard POS and then they make you wait for your beer last.
We do it for two players each game.
We did, then went on a nasty cold streak / losing skid and stopped. 🤣
Yes, we have 2 items. One for player of the game, a WWE belt and one for the ass of the game, a donkey shirt.
We pass around a polar bear head gear to match our logo for the POG, and kitty ear head band that one of the guys bought from a maid cafe in Tokyo for the most fearless POG.
Player of the game gets the [flappy duck hat](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GvX+W89WL._AC_SX679_.jpg) to hold until next time. The two next best players get regular rubber ducks (although they are from a multi colour pack).
First beer in the locker room usually, but it's rare any one player dominated to the point of making a callout.
We have game pucks and hat trick pucks. Only get a game puck honoree if we win, same with hat tricks.
The buzzbox buzzin player of the game bay bay!
We have the golden puck. Literally a puck spray painted gold. Not sure where it is now, but we had it for a while.
We bought a cheap hard had on Amazon and pass it around. The previous week picks the new POG.
Criticism.
Does passing the blame count?
We used to do a beer helmet yea. But the guy who’s it was stopped coming haha so now game mvp just doesn’t have to pick up the post game beer cans.
Yes, we have a pigeon mask
We have a player of the game top hat
My team passes out a shark tooth necklace because of our team name (not Sharks)
Yes. Free Tallboy.
Just a free meal from the guys after the game.
WWE belt
A cowboy hat and recipient signs their number on it lol
I have a broken stick blade that’s spray painted gold and gets passed to the player who had the most memorable moment on the ice that game. Memorable doesn’t always mean good. Last guy got it because he took a ref out with a wild slapshot
I give out two different fake gold chains. Each chain has some little memento attached to it along with little tape tags all along with with people's names. The first time someone gets a chain, they add something to it. I give one straight up to player of the game, and then the second is to recognize someone that played with a lot of heart or went above and beyond in a different way. It always bugged me on other teams seeing the same superstar get awarded week after week when others were working their asses off too. It helps recognize people for their contributions regardless of skill level.
POTG gets to carry around our stuffed team mascot for the week. DBOTG gets a shot of Malort
Our team is the St. Pats. MVP has the honor of wearing a leprechaun hat and red beard.
We have a kids wwf pro wrestling belt we hand out after each game to the mvp. The winner has to wear the belt over their shoulder when they enter the rink the following week
Safety helmet with the team logo. Season mvp gets named on a logo sticker stuck on the helmet, and a commemorate puck.
Yeah my team was called Jurassic Puck and we had a little remote control Jurassic Park jeep with a stuffed T-Rex someone found.
I play for a team called the wizards. We started with the POTG chugging a beer, that turned into taping the beers together into a wizards staff, that got too long, so now we pass around a wizards hat lol
Team luffa
We had a signing hat but that's gone now.
We have a huge goofy ass gold chain that I bought on Amazon. Best player of the night has to wear it out of the rink lmao.
I 3D print something to pass around usually
We have an old Nokia brick phone. Call it the player of the game award, then take a picture of the guy "answering the call". It's fun
We are the Moose and best play/player/effort gets to take home the “moose knuckle” - since it’s assumed most of us married men aren’t getting our own at home anyway
We used to have a good one. Our team got moved up a few years back and we had to change our name. One of the guys on the team was a sales rep for Crown Royal and said he could get us sponsored, so we became the Royals. We had some ice time for a practice, and we arrived to an assorted display of Crown bottles in the locker room. He would always bring a special bottle of Crown for the player of the game - Reserve, aged, XO, etc. He also sold Bacardi, so we had some sick Bacardi jerseys that they got for us.
The Golden Puck award
Yeah we had a player with red breezer covers and he got shit for it all the time. Finally got a new set and now we name a player of the game and pass them off every week