Graphics during a hockey broadcast are usually widely ignored or overlooked unless they have an egregious error or typo. In the case of the St. Louis Blues, their recent game against the Edmonton Oilers featured a rather unusual graphic of Jake Allen.
See if you can spot what’s strange in this photo:
Allen is holding a player’s stick in this photo rather than his usual goalie stick.
This just seems so bizarre. It looks like a real photo, which means at some point a photographer got a great head-on photo of Allen during a game in which he lost his stick and was handed a new stick by one of his teammates and then the broadcast found that image and decided to run with it in this graphic.
It’s not a sight you see too often, let alone as a graphic.
