New Zealand Hockey Initiation Is, Uh, Special [Your Kiwis Are Showing]

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New Zealand Hockey Initiation Is, Uh, Special [Your Kiwis Are Showing]
Puck Daddy found this 6/30/2008 on deadspin.com [flag]
In these days of summer swelter, the thought of going for a Crocodile Mile-type slide to cool me down is enticing. That doesn't make viewing these pictures or the video after the jump of what appears to be a standard initiation rite in New Zealand hockey: stripping down to your skivvies and sliding around the ice. Hey, wait up guys, Frodo and Sam want to join. Yeah, I went for the obvious ... [link]

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Video: Nearly-naked postgame rituals of New Zealand hockey
Published 6/30/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... clip is from the end of a New Zealand Ice Hockey League between the Botany Swarm and West Auckland Admirals. We don't want to say the NZIHL has an inferiority complex (in New Zealand? Naaah), but at least half of its trailer for the 2008 season (video) features NHL highlights. The nearly-naked sliding video, and a rather hilarious Flickr gallery that supplements it, were pimped over on Deadspin yesterday by Christmas Ape, who has much more restraint when it comes to a "Flight of the Conchords" reference than we ...

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