Due to the uniqueness of hockey, hockey players don’t tend to stray too far away from their sport. In professional spots in general there aren’t many Tim Tebow’s left in the world that can crossover between sports (albeit, Tebow has yet to fully excel at either he’s played professionally). But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a few traits that remind us of other sports.
For example, Zdeno Chara has one particular feature that reminds a lot of people of another sport – basketball, the land of the giants.
Everyone remember when Ovi threw out that absolutely horrible first pitch? Let’s make it a regular!
Patty Kane has those soft hands wide receivers dream of.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a suspension!
Burns could be an actual wizard and it honestly wouldn’t even be that surprising.
Here’s Drew Doughty playing base-ketball
A few of these guy actually look pretty good in their cross-sport situation. Maybe they should consider a career shift once they get tired of playing puck.
