DENVER, COLORADO - DECEMBER 19: Gabriel Landeskog #92 of the Colorado Avalanche celebrates a goal against the Carolina Hurricanes in the third period at the Pepsi Center on December 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
With the Colorado Avalanche and the whole NHL on hockey hiatus, let’s take a light-hearted look at what quarantine would be like with our favorite players.
The Colorado Avalanche players are off in their own worlds having to self-quarantine after the NHL put the season on pause on March 12. They have to keep up that quarantine at least until April 4.
Anyway, the Avalanche are a funny group. They offer so many different personalities. Those character traits would affect how they’d be as quarantine-mates.
Yes, I’m aware there’s no such thing as quarantine-mates. You have your family or your have your roommates. Or, like me, your pet. However, the reality is the majority of us are under some kind of stay-at-home order.
So, let’s imagine some weird scenario where we just happened to be visiting one of the Avs players in their fancy houses (because that’s way better than our own homes probably) when the quarantine order came down.
If you had your druthers, which current Avs player would you want to be quarantined with? Obviously not the two who tested positive for COVID-19, but we don’t know who they are anyway. So, let’s just base it on who would make a good quarantine-mate.
(Cheers to Omar Abdelgawad at Cardiac Cane for the idea.)
Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson would make a great quarantine-mate because he’s a chill individual. I’m pretty sure he does yoga. He’s probably a yogi, in fact. We could do yoga together.
Imagine if you were getting anxiety from being in quarantine. Well, that chill personality would definitely go a long way toward calming you down again. I’m sure I’d feel more relaxed with Wilson around.
Look, King of Chill:
I mean, he went to a spa for his birthday. I bet he has a killer skincare routine. Now that I can’t get Tyson Barrie’s skincare routine since he’s with the Leafs, I want to know about Wilson’s.
Sam Girard
When we traded Matt Duchene and got Samuel Girard back, I didn’t realize our new tiny, unemotional defenseman was such a bad boy. Then he went and wrecked his sports car over the summer, and I began to get an inkling.
I mean, if you follow Sammy G on Instagram, you’ll see him literally hacking at the ice in his Quebec driveway. (Private account, but he seems to let Avs fans follow.)
If you get the chance, peep his new mohawk. Bad. Boy. He’d be so much fun to be around.
Plus, if I was quarantined with Sam Girard, I’d get to hang out with his dog, named Tornade after G’s signature spin-o-rama move:
I doubt I could pick up Tornade like Sammy in that picture, but I’d give him plenty of pettings.
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare is a fun-loving guy. At my first Colorado Avalanche game of the year, I was standing by some kids for warmups, and he skated over and crashed the boards to make us all jump. Before every game, he pushes both Sam Girard and Ryan Graves around to loosen them up.
It would be a hoot to be quarantined with Belly. He’d probably keep up a running commentary on his antics like he did in the Straight Arm Challenge:
Hey, maybe we could play the Straight Arm Challenge and he could work on his tie abilities. Although I think it’s hilarious he tries to play off his effort as being French fashion from Paris. But then, that’s what would make Belly an ideal quarantine-mate.
When you pictured who you’d like to be quarantined with,our charismatic captain almost certainly came up. Gabriel Landeskog is good-looking. He’s charming. Who wouldn’t want to be quarantined with him?
That aside, he’d be a calming influence like Colin Wilson and a jokester like Bellemare. You could probably sit and have long conversations with our captain. And they would be thoughtful and deep.
Plus, our captain knows how to look at the bright side:
See, you’d even get to be quarantined with baby Linnea.
Full confession: I’m more of a pet person than baby person, but Linnea look adorbs.
Tyson Jost
My number-one pick for quarantine-mate would be Tyson Jost. He’s the biggest goofball this team has ever seen, and that’s saying something.
Being an extrovert, Jost would be talking non-stop, which would make the days go by quickly. And he’s a funny, funny guy. So you wouldn’t even have a chance to get nervous or anxious because of the quarantine.
No, really, who could be nervous hanging out with this guy:
Plus, he says he’s “absolute garbage” at video games. I’m not really a gamer, but it’s good to know I wouldn’t be blown out of the water if we did pass the time with a console.
Josty can also dance. I like to dance. We could definitely teach each other some dance moves.
Ok, those were the best options for quarantine-mates. Let’s look at some Colorado Avalanche players I would not want to be in quarantine with.
SAN JOSE, CA – APRIL 28: Ian Cole #28 of the Colorado Avalanche looks on against the San Jose Sharks in Game Two of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at SAP Center on April 28, 2019 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images) /
Bad Quarantine-Mates
These players are all really nice and good guys. But I don’t think it’d be too much fun to be in quarantine with them. (Tongue in cheek)
I love Erik Johnson, I really do. But he’d just want to moan about not getting to see his horses.
Matt Calvert is known for deliberately knocking drinks off the bumper. I already have a cat to provide that service for me.
Ian Cole‘s beard would consume our quarantine snacks on the first day.
Can you imagine how Nathan MacKinnon must have been climbing the walls the first hour into the hockey hiatus?! Opposite of chill.
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Hey, we all need a little light in our lives these days as we’re on what feels like Day 3,000 without hockey. So, which Colorado Avalanche player would you want to be quarantine-mates with?
