The Penguin Playoff Beard Watch

Justin Maffei | Pittsburgh Penguins

May 12, 10:43 AM | Hype this story!

Many players look forward to the playoffs and their opportunity to “let it all go.” It gives them the chance to show off their creativity in growing facial hair. We will look at the different directions Penguin players have taken with their playoff beards.

1) The “I seem to have lost my razor”

These guys take playhoff beards to the extreme. They just let the hair grow where it will.

Penguins Examples – Sergei Gonchar, Ty Conklin, Pascal Dupuis

Real World Examples – David Schwimmer, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

2) The Van Dyck

You could easily imagine these guys with berets on painting a masterpiece.

Penguins Example – Marc-Andre Fleury

Real World Examples – Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Johnny Depp, Josh Hartnett, V

3) The “I really should never grow facial hair”

These guys show a lot of heart to grow their playoff beards. They beards look quite a bit ridiculous, but we love them for their effort.

Penguins Examples – Jordan Staal, Sidney Crosby, Marian Hossa

Real World Examples – Ashton Kutcher, Al Gore

4) The Classic Goatee

Penguin Examples – Hal Gill, Gary Roberts

Real World Examples – Wesley Snipes, Adam Sandler

5) The Chin Strap

Some of these are true chin straps and others are a blend of a chinstrap and a full beard. Ruutu’s and Kennedy’s look great.

Penguin Examples – Jarkko Ruutu, Tyler Kennedy

Real World Examples – Mike Tomlin, The Notre Dame Leprechaun

NOTE: Not all of the Penguins have attempted to grow a playoff beard. Perhaps Evgeni Malkin refuses to grow a playoff beard because he fears being moved into group number 3.

Comments

  1. DaBich

    May 12, 10:54 AM

    Funny you should write about this. Hubby and I were discussing this during the game last night. He said Dupuis looked like a Neanderthal! I said so did Whitney.
    Maybe Malkin CAN’T grow a beard ;)

  2. Justin Maffei

    May 12, 01:54 PM

    I thought that about Malkin too.

    I really like Ruutu’s beard!

  3. Eric

    May 12, 09:26 PM

    Dupuis and Whitney get my vote for the best beards thus far. They’ve got the genes to grow one. It shows!

    As for Hossa and Staal, they fall under the blond hair rule. It’s tougher for it to show. But they’re trying, i guess. :)

  4. teri

    May 18, 01:51 PM

    I think Jordan’s looks just fine- it’s filled out a bit. Russians must have difficulty genetically- look at Ovechkin, Datsyuk, etc.

    And Max looks like one of his voyageur ancestors! That kid can grow hair everywhere but his chest.

    teri

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