More hockey horrors...

You can tell it's been a slow day at Breakaway HQ, can't you? After the post yesterday about comedy looks in the EIHL this season, Matt pointed out that I'd missed Joe Tallari's effort in the Bad Facial Hair Hall of Fame. Perhaps this is because the shifty forward is always moving too quickly for me to catch it, or maybe I was hypnotised vs the Phoenix by the boy-band refugee that is Brian Passmore, but, as Matt says, that truly is epic-observe the way he's left it bare under the nose just so...

I also forgot this gem-it's Andre Payette rocking the kinda-sorta-mohawk. A long way from his time at the Blaze, where his matinee-idol highlighted hair clashed somewhat with the rugged bruiser underneath...

Making a run at Joe Tallari's "interrupted" image is Patrik Wallenberg of the Panthers. Has someone just drawn on his face with a crayon and forgotten to fill in a bit? The style in itself you can get away with-but at least try and make it all the same length...

Finally, we have the Bison's Steve Thornton. Great, great, player. But awful, awful dentistry...

One addition to the Halloween costumes mentioned below, by the way...and it goes across the Irish Sea.

Zombie: Troy Neumeier (Belfast): If you've seen the Giants' veteran d-man skate, you'll know why. He moves with all the pace and shambling gait of one of the newly-undead attempting to catch a screaming maiden. The difference is, this time she'll get away. Much like the vast majority of opposition forwards do, given a bit of space...

Now I really am done-I have to prepare myself for a night with horrific, scary hooded creatures who hunt in packs, attack without mercy and growl in voices no human can understand. That's right-I'm braving a trip to Coventry City Centre for a night out with my rocker friends, and we're already stocked up on garlic...:)

Back tomorrow with Round the Rinks as per usual-until then, keep keeping your eye on the puck...