Players Improvise In Hilarious Practice After Forgetting Hockey Sticks

What would you do if your hockey team was traveling to Kalamazoo to play against Western Michigan University and you found out that you had everything with you except your sticks? I guess the only thing to do is to improvise, which is apparently what the University of Denver‘s hockey team had to do.

Recently, a video surfaced showing the time that the University of Denver‘s hockey team rolled into Kalamazoo and had a stickless practice because they left the stick bags in Denver.

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In the video, it very much sounds like people are laughing at the fact that they are practicing passing and shooting without sticks or pucks.

Someone in the comment section claims they know what happened:

It wasn’t the equipment manager, it’s d1, they’d just call up another student on campus to grab them and follow behind on a flight as soon as it was found out, the airline f***ed it up and sent the sticks elsewhere.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. In fact, in the Negro Leagues, they used to play a game called Shadowball, but it was actually intended not to use the most crucial piece of equipment for the game, as HMDT explains:

‘Shadow Ball’ refers to a common pre-game feature during which Negro League players warmed up by staging mock games with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, this pantomime was an apt metaphor for the exclusion of black athletes from Major League play in America for over 60 years.