Rooftop Dining - Jacques Lafontaine

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SPRINGFIELD - In Calgary, it was the Scotiabank Saddledome. The Calgary Wranglers (the VHL franchise, not the AHL franchise, which will probably be very confusing once the AHL season gets underway) had a goaltender named Jacques Lafontaine in between the pipes. There was a strange and inexplicable ritual of Jacques where he went to the top of the ‘Dome and just ate food. No real particular reason other than the fact he felt his nerves settle every time he did it. Nobody knows why sitting unharnessed on top of a big saddle shaped arena calmed Lafontaine down but it worked. He would eat a meal and sometimes even got fast food and restaurants sending him food to eat up there as advertisement. Thankfully, Lafontaine did this before the concrete on the roof began to crumble. Now, Jacques Lafontaine is a goaltending coach in Springfield. That must mean the rooftop eating shenanigans has stopped, right? Wrong.

 

Springfielders who were unfamiliar with Lafontaine’s VHL career, let alone Springfielders who knew nothing about hockey were surely surprised when they saw Jacques eating a Wendy’s Baconator on top of the MassMutual Center. Some even expressed concern about the man’s safety. For all they knew, it was some random dude eating a Wendy’s Baconator on the roof. When asked in a press conference by a flabbergasted reporter who had seen him earlier to explain why he was doing what he was doing, he simply replied, “I haven’t had the chance to eat fast food in my career. Just wanted to enjoy it.”

 

Surely, Jacques knew that was not what the reporter was asking about.