Sifting through hockey Twitter for 140-character gold is not unlike the job of an NHL scout — the task is mostly arduous, often boring yet sometimes highly rewarding.
When we glance back at some of the greatest NHL tweets of 2014, we notice most of the better ones only work in the context of the moment.
But we did hand-pick 14 great hockey tweets that still hold up, or at least remind us of some of the laughs we’ve had over the past 12 months.
Here are our top 14 hockey tweets of 2014.
2014’s top 10 NHL tweets by month: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
14. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select, Start practising from birth if you wants moves like Datsyuk:
13. Honey, I shrunk John Scott:
12. Eddie Lack’s mom, penguin tamer:
11. Leafs fan Riddick Bowe’s one-way feud with Randy Carlyle is still so surreal:
10. Shirtless Sutter still makes us shudder:
9. Darren Pang: 5’5″. Ben Bishop: 6’7″.
8. Do not forget. A couple months before Zemgus Girgensons ran away with the NHL All-Star Game vote, he received this invitation to try out for the NAHL’s Topeka RoadRunners:
7. Ginette Reno, multitasking:
6. Genius:
5. Shakier on his skates than he was aware, young Paul would end up being released by the St. Louis Blues…
4. Jagr bomb:
3. The best thing about Satan Trotz is that he may be the hockey’s nicest man:
2. Meme master:
1. The Mad Julien Invasion is somehow better without any context: