Carmelo Preiti can't help but flash a giddy grin as he opens the second drawer of a gray cabinet in his family's barber shop on North Rose Street in Franklin Park.
"Wait till you see these," he says in a thick Italian accent.
Preiti unzips a black case to reveal, among several other tools of his trade, a special pair of scissors with the number "88" on them, which help shape the city's most famous mullet.
The tradition started as a joke during the 2009-10 season, when Preiti began cutting Patrick Kane's hair.
"I'm like, 'Here's what we're going to do,'" Preiti says, describing how he showed Kane a picture of Jaromir Jagr.