Gino Odjick

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"When Gino is scoring goals and doing his Indian dance, it’s a little scary but scary good." Esa Tikkanen - January 10, 1997

Enforcer for the Vancouver Canucks/Montreal Canadiens/New York Islanders in the 1990s.
Gino Odjick was the ugliest man in professional hockey. Then Alexander Ovechkin came along.
Had a career high of 29 points in 1993-94, and 371 PIM in 1996-97
Named a child after his best friend, Pavel Bure. He named his child Bure Odjick. Seriously.
When playing junior hockey in Quebec, was once lit on fire by fans sitting behind him while sat in the penalty box.

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The Quotable Gino Odjick

Gino Odjick returns to the Montreal Canadiens lineup tonight and, from the sound of things, he has a score to settle with Florida goaltender Trevor Kidd. "I figure (Kidd) will wake up (this morning) at 9:30 and read the paper at 10. That leaves him nine hours to learn the duck dance," Odjick said yesterday. "I haven't played in a week and all I've been doing is shooting at watermelons - because that's the size of his head." "I figure to get 10 minutes of ice (against the Panthers). That means I should be good for three shots. And I was hitting the melon often last week. I'm an Indian, so I'm good at hunting." Gino planned to have revenge on Kidd for comments he had recently made about Pavel Bure, despite the fact that Odjick and Bure were no longer teammates.
Odjick said he hoped to return to the lineup this season: "If you can teach a dog to run after a ball in a week, you can teach an Indian to run after a puck in a month."
Gino Odjick on the effect of his suspension without pay and its’ effect on his wife Jolene, "She won’t be able to play bingo or shop for a whole month. Maybe Colin (Campbell) will get what he deserves when I tell her she can’t play bingo or go to the stores. My advice to him is to run."
Not a quote, but when Gino Odjick was in minor hockey he did not possess an appropriate set of formal attire for attending games . His coach ponied up the cash to get him a fine suit, and then the next day Gino arrived with the suit in tatters and stained with blood. Apparently Gino and his father had encountered a deer on the road and had hunted it down and returned the carcass to their pickup's bed for later consumption.

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