"Friday, two players from the KHL team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, Roman Gorbunov and Vladimir Galkin, did their best "Doggie" impersonation inside their locker room. Galkin, the goaltender, put his goalie stick inside the jersey collar of Gorbunov, the team's leading goal-scorer, and walked him around the room like a dog. Of course, there's barking. Their teammates were amused. On the team's Telegram account, Avtomobilist wrote, "Washington vs. Avtomobilist's pregame ritual 😁," per a Google translation."
""The tunnel's kind of been an ongoing joke with our team and just a fun place to be. I don't know, heat of the moment, it got reckless in there. So that's all I got." To make the bit work as intended, Duhaime said that he had to have "full commitment on that one, for sure," which surely he accomplished."
Brandon Duhaime performed a tunnel pregame celebration by getting on all fours and acting like a junkyard dog, a routine born from team jokes and tunnel antics. He described the moment as heat-of-the-moment and requiring full commitment to sell the bit. The routine involves teammates joining in and loose, anything-goes tunnel energy. Players from KHL club Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg — Roman Gorbunov and goaltender Vladimir Galkin — mimicked the act inside their locker room, with Galkin placing a goalie stick in Gorbunov's jersey collar and parading him while teammates barked and laughed. Avtomobilist posted the imitation on Telegram as a pregame ritual nod to Washington, spreading the stunt internationally.
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