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Excitement is rising with the opening game of the BHL approaching fast, and we've secured a telephone interview with team GM and commander General D'Stresse.
Interviewer: So tell me General, how is recruiting for the Enforcers expansion team going?
Gen. D'Stresse: Interesting you should use the term recruiting, since that’s exactly what we’ve done, we’re taking our U.N. peacekeepers, and giving them a chance to have some down time, build a little esprit de corps, have some fun, Oui?
Interviewer: What sort of route are you planning on taking with this multi-national team? Are you going to concentrate on skating? Shooting? Defense? A solid front line?
Gen. D’Stresse: Mon Dieu non, most of our troops come from countries with no ice, so we’re mostly concentrating on finding the biggest troops we can jam into a jersey. We’re currently lobbying to see if the BHL will allow them to wear crampons instead of skates because we’re sure most of them won’t be able to stand on skates.
Interviewer: Surely you’re joking, this is supposed to be hockey..
Gen. D’Stresse: The official U.N. training manual for this project was written after some paper-pusher in Geneva rented “Inaugural Fight of the Hockey Enforcers,” it was all that was available at the movie store that evening, and have you ever tried to get something changed in the U.N.?
Interviewer: No...but surely..
Gen. D’Stresse: We’re stuck playing hockey this way, but we’ve decided we are going to be putting out the finest set of enforcers seen on the ice. If we’re real lucky the BHL will let them carry side-arms instead of those sorry excuses for riot batons they call “hockey sticks.”
Interviewer: Well, there you have it folks, General Manager of “The Peacekeepers” General D’Stresse. Somebody, please, stop this maniac.