Unlike any GHL team profiled so far, the Bruins were very open and revealed a lot to this bashful reporter on her eye popping night spent on the big Bears bench.
When former GHL referee Brad Switzer decided to strip off his stripes and trade it in for a hockey jersey, he announced that he wanted to "show the league everything he had" - turned out he meant that literally.
In the first period, Brad abandoned defense partner, rookie GHLer Ana Markwick early in his shift and all Ana heard was "I'm going all the way!" Ana decided to take a very long shift.
When Brad returned to the bench, defenceman Mike Guitard (who returned to the GHL this year after a sabbatical) was quick enough to jump onto the ice to get away from "all of it".
Speedster Carrie Holterman and Bruins top point getter Michael Holterman also suspected something was up… and skated as fast as they could in order for the bench to become a blur. They probably should have just taken off their glasses, but they admitted they didn't have time to think about it.
Brad stated he came to the bench because his pants were experiencing a "wardrobe malfunction", but teammates and sophomore GHLers Ken Alguire and Walter Domingos knew better. Having previously been involved in boy bands in their youth, Walter and Ken were sure that Brad was adopting the youthful fashion trend of "sagging".
Captain Dan and his sidekick, former Shark dreamy Daniel Felhouser were both very upset to have been treated to the full monty. Although Brad claims he only lost his pants, both Rothmain and Felhouser say they both played Justin to Brad's Janet and will never see Brad the same way again.
Super scorer Shawn Gidge wanted to show solidarity with Brad, but the refs felt that his "hooking" and subsequent verbal defence of his actions were a bit much, so Shawn left early to go fishing up at the bar.
Goalie Dan Forster, who struggles at the best of times to see things clearly, had no idea what was happening on the bench.
Wes Reeves who had been drinking heavily all night, couldn't remember anything that happened but swore that there were pink elephants involved and wishes he had had something other than water in his bottle.
Ken McKillop had a premonition that Brad was going to lay it all out there and wisely decided to not to come to the game.
This reporter isn't sure whether this event will help bring the last placed Bruins together, but knows at the very least it won't keep them from making the playoffs.
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