One my favorite Philadelphia Flyers anecdotes is from the 1997 playoffs. As the heavily-favored Flyers were beating up on the Buffalo Sabres, Sabres coach Ted Nolan accused Flyers goalie Garth Snow of using wood blocks to prop up his shoulder pads. After one game, the Buffalo media asked to inspect Snow’s pads, and Snow gave the all-time classic reply that they could not because the pads were in the woodshop.
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Some of that interchange was certainly playoffs gamesmanship, but a forgotten denouement was that the league later decided that Snow’s pads were illegal.