Posted on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 11:26:24 AM EST in NHL
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Wouldn't you like to be able to just drop what you're doing everyday at noon and just curl up for a catnap? We would too, but unfortunately we're not professional hockey players. But for those lucky few who are skating in the NHL it's basically written into their contracts. According to Maple Leafs center Travis Green,

It's not a matter of `Will I?' It's a matter of 'How long?'

Sounds pretty good, but it can have its downside as well. What about when you desperately need your daily midday nap and you have a roommate on the road that isn't on the same schedule? Or if you're trying to get 40 winks and some jerk is snoring like a pig? But the absolute worst is when you must deal with the dreaded somnambulist, or sleepwalker to us common folks. Here's one terrifying experience that occurred between Steve 'Stumpy' Thomas and the snoozing Todd Gill.

We were sleeping one time, he woke up all startled and came over to me and he was shaking me. He says: `Stump, are you okay? Are you okay?' I wake up and I'm like, `I'm fine.' He goes: `Holy cow... I thought I ran you over in my golf cart.'

The other troubling aspect of partaking in excessive sleeping rituals is that it sometimes can become difficult to fully revive yourself before playing in the team's next game. Just ask the Philadelphia Flyers who have been sleepwalking through the entire season.

Links:
[Toronto Star]: NAP TIME ISN'T JUST FOR THE CHILDREN

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