Favorite Nike Hockey Goalies Commercials #7 - The Babysitter

@teamfreak16 (43418)
Denver, Colorado
January 4, 2019 10:10am CST
Back in the 90's, Nike made a hilarious series of commercials revolving around "Former NHL Goalies" who were forced to work regular jobs after their weaknesses were exposed by NHL superstars wearing Nike equipment. I am counting down my favorite of those commercials. We are at #7: The Babysitter. In this one, a former New York Rangers goaltender has found a regular gig babysitting two kids because Theo Fluery, then playing for the Calgary Flames, had exposed the goalie's weak glove hand. He's bitter, but still great with the kids!
Nike Goalie Commercial "The Babysitter" with visions of Theo Fleury.
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• New Delhi, India
4 Jan 19
A babysitter who is somewhat bitter. I will actually prefer to babysit my kids by myself rather than going for someone like him.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
4 Jan 19
That's kind of what makes it so funny.
@mawdest (1587)
• Canada
5 Jan 19
These are great. I wonder who that goalie was. I didn't realize Fleury was that small of a guy, but I guess I don't know much about hockey before like mid 2000's.
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@mawdest (1587)
• Canada
8 Jan 19
@teamfreak16 I know that was kind of a weird thing to say on my part. Oh, I had no clue he played in Denver, good stuff. Dang, that's awesome, Joe Sakic is my all time favourite player! Even though I really watch/cheer for the Leafs, I'm also a pretty big Avs fan too, they're my "other" team, even though that might be kind of odd or whatever
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
5 Jan 19
Yeah, Fluery is a small guy. He played here in Denver for a couple years. Once, when he first got here, some star player from another team, I forget who, took a cheap shot at Fluery, and none other than Joe Sakic chased the dude down and dropped the gloves. It was only the second fight of Sakic's career. He won, too!
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Jan 19
@mawdest - I finally remembered. It was Doug Gilmore. The guy that used to do the Avalanche games, Mike Haynes, yelled "How do you like those apples, Gilmore?" after the fight.
@JudyEv (340489)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Jan 19
That is SOOO funny. I bet the kids loved him - eventually.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
5 Jan 19
They seemed to enjoy the bedtime story until he got angry!
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@JudyEv (340489)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Jan 19
@teamfreak16 Kids sometimes like to be scared with fairy stories but he was pretty fired up!
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Jan 19
I though the needed full gear to protect himself from the kids.
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