Evgeny Kuznetsov's bird walk celebration has its haters and its imitators, but the celebration isn't going anywhere--not if three-year old Ecenia Kuznetsova has anything to say about it In a Russian-language interview with Sport-Express's Igor Rabiner, Kuznetsov revealed that his...
When Kuznetsov scored twice against the LA Kings last week, he did not do the bird celly and had to answer to his daughter when he got home.
“Come home at 11 o’clock, and she demands an explanation: ‘Why no bird?’ It’s hard to explain to a child that when you score, it’s impossible to control your emotions, it either happens on its own, or it doesn’t,” Kuznetsov said.
…“My [family] don’t go to the home games that often, because they start at 7 o’clock, but [Ecenia] needs to get up at 7 in the morning to go to preschool. But they did come to that game, and first I scored in the second period. My wife was telling me later, my daughter was so upset when I didn’t do the bird. ‘At least you did it in overtime,’ she said, ‘we left the game after the second period, and for two hours on our way home I had to listen to her talking about daddy forgetting to show the bird.‘”
Kuznetsov said he asked his wife to explain to Ecenia that the bird celly doesn’t always happen, but was told: “Explain it yourself!”
“And now I have to think about that!” Kuznetsov said.
WHY NO BIRD?
