Pest (hockey)
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In ice hockey, a pest is a type of player who attempts to annoy, anger, or distract opposing players in order to reduce their effectiveness or cause them to take a penalty. Pests are also sometimes referred to as "agitators".
Pests can employ legal, illegal, or borderline tactics to accomplish their goals. Some common tactics include trash talk, slashing and hooking while referees are not looking. Also, they may employ the tactic of goading opponents into a fight but then backing off in order to draw a penalty against the opponent. Some pests may not only use these tactics against opposing skaters, but opposing goaltenders as well [1].
Pests are different from enforcers, though some players play both roles.
[edit] Examples of Current and Past NHL Pests
- Sean Avery[2]
- Matthew Barnaby[1]
- Alexandre Burrows[3]
- Dino Ciccarelli[4]
- Matt Cooke[5]
- Dan Hinote
- Tomas Holmstrom[1]
- Darius Kasparaitis [1]
- Bob Kelly[1]
- Ian Laperriere [1]
- Maxime Lapierre
- Claude Lemieux
- Kirk Maltby[6]
- Darren McCarty
- Brenden Morrow
- Tyson Nash[1]
- Ville Nieminen[7]
- Steve Ott
- Ronald Petrovicky
- Andre Roy
- Jarkko Ruutu
- Ulf Samuelsson
- Jon Sim
- Karl Stewart
- Esa Tikkanen[1]
- Jordin Tootoo
- Darcy Tucker
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Samuleson, Karl. "Best Pest in Show", Hockey Digest, 2001-02-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ Wentworth, Bridget. "Devils: Janssen plays head games with Lundqvist", The Star-Ledger, 2007-02-27. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ Wazny, Adam. "Versatile Rookie Shows Potential", Winnipeg Sun, 2005-03-19. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
- ^ Dalla Costa, Morris. "Dino", Slam, 2006-06-04. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ Willes, Ed. "Cooke takes care of business his own way", Vancouver Province, 2007-02-02. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ MacLeod, Bruce. "Maltby Creates Power Plays", Macomb Daily, 2006-11-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ "Flames strike Lightning in Game 5", TSN, 2006-06-04. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
