Besides the loss, my friend and I had a blast sitting behind the bench tonight. It was really cool seeing a lot of the behind the scenes stuff going on, but the one thing we could not get over was Eberle taking slugs of Pepsi and then washing it down with Fruit Punch Body Armor. What a wild man.

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  1. They’re zoomin around for an hour. The sugar might be helpful. (This is completely made up. Drinking soda while exercising seems insane to me.)

  3. Shane mentioned it last season in one of those mini mic vids the social media team does — he also thought it was crazy lmfao

  5. Teams also eat pizza between periods in the playoff games that go to overtime.

    These guys are burning thousands of calories per game, never mind the day in day out grind of the life of a pro athlete. Sometimes they actually need a bit of a sugar kick to keep going.

  7. Google Phil Kessel. Holds the NHL “Iron Man” record for most consecutive games played. Before he started that streak, in his rookie year, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, had surgery, and was back playing in less than a month, missing only 11 games. Three years later, in 2009, he started the streak that saw him play in 1100+ games straight (including playoffs) over the next 13 years. He has won three Stanley Cups. Two with Pittsburgh and one with Vegas.

    He is famous for having the worst diet in the modern NHL. He drank only sodas and sports drinks, refusing to drink water. He almost exclusively ate processed food and candy. He drank cokes between periods. His sugar, salt, and fat intake must have been insane. Dude is truly a different breed.

  8. The amount of calories they’re burning is unreal. It’s the same reason floyd mayweather drank Pepsi during or right after a workout.

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