Caps right winger Matt Bradley is seriously content to let his work on the ice and his role asa locker room character take the spotlight. Photo by clydeorama.
Capitals forward Matt Bradley wants you to know he’s a serious kind of guy.
“I’m a very, very serious person,” is how Bradley, with a face any poker player would kill to have, describes his locker room demeanor.
Then he gives an actual, serious answer.
“Part of the reason why our team has so much fun together is because we keep it light off the ice,” Bradley clarifies. “Myself and a bunch of other guys, we enjoy joking around, and it makes it fun coming to the rink every day.”
But Bradley says he’s far from the most mischievous guy in the locker room.
“There’s lots of guys ahead of me. Brooks Laich is bad, Shaone Morrisonn. So I’m low on the totem pole as far as that goes,” Bradley said.
An unselfish player who is always willing to take and deliver hits for the team (remember when he swooped in just as Alex Ovechkin and Steve Downie were squaring off?), Bradley has fast endeared himself to Caps fans, who even created a hashtag phrase on Twitter in his honor: #needsmorebradley. Caps fans apply this phrase, liberally, to everything from the Olympics to random TV episodes that they feel just, well, #needsmorebradley.
