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May 8, 2023 25 tweets 14 min read Read on X
Today we are looking at NHL players with playoff beards and their Chabad rabbi doppelgängers.

Mattias Ekholm is a solid match for Rabbi Avi Ifergan! ImageImage
When Laurent Brossoit isn't stopping pucks, he's serving spicy Cholent as Rabbi Berry Green. ImageImage
Every once in awhile Jordan Eberle takes off his skates, throws on a yarmulke and bowtie, and runs around downtown Seattle giving out Chanukah donuts to strangers as Rabbi Meir Kalmanson @MeirKay ImageImage
Jack Eichel can score a lot of goals, but after midnight when he turns into Rabbi Zalman Negin, he conducts Chabad's world famous Kapelye Chazzanim band in 770! ImageImage
Did you know that in order to have the strength to crush players into the boards as a Carolina Hurricane, Derek Stepan spends every Shabbat morning doing 100 Hagba lifts as Rabbi Adi Goodman of Chabad at Monterra? ImageImage
Nicolas Roy is taking the Faceoff but he's really thinking about that Lechaim he's gonna be making after the game when acting as Rabbi Fitz Shpigelman. ImageImage
Sometimes Rabbi Simi Wenger takes a break from teaching Kashrut and covers for Brent Burns as a stunt double. ImageImage
Timothy Liljegren was recently spotted dressing like Rabbi Ephraim Carlebach and visiting the Ohel to ask for a Bracha that the Leafs should come back and win their series against the Panthers. ImageImage
Meanwhile, Radko Gudas was spotted in a Florida Shul praying to beat the Leafs as Rabbi Dovi Gniwisch. ImageImage
Ahh, classic Colin White. Tucking wraparounds on goalies during the game, wrapping Tefillin on them as Rabbi Levy Namdar after the game!

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Joe Pavelski recently scored 4 goals in a playoff game but he still considers his raising millions at the Hatzolohthon when he stood in for @MordyShapiro to be a more meaningful moment.

Here's more clear evidence: ImageImage
When not putting Tefillin on police officers, Rabbi Moshe Bleich of Wellesley-Weston Chabad plays for the Florida Panthers under the pseudonym "Marc Staal." ImageImage
Rabbi Yossi Wolff of Chabad of Homestead and Cutler Bay also enjoys dressing up as "Marc Staal" when he isn't hanging out with "Judah the Maccabee." ImageImage
Rabbi Mendy Cohen @mendymcohen also tried Marc Staaling but when he arrived in the Florida Panthers dressing room, they all started calling him "Eric Staal" and he still has no idea why. ImageImage
Most people don't know that Sam Reinhart actually snuck into last year's Chabad #Kinus dressing as Rabbi Michoel Goldin (aka Dr Schnitzel) of Chabad of Teaneck. ImageImage
Rabbi @yoniChanowitz before Sefirah starts vs Rabbi Yoni Chanowitz 32 days in. ImageImage
Now that Igor Shesterkin and the New York Rangers are out of the playoff, he can return to his true passion: setting up the lighting in his Chabad House as Rabbi Yossi Serraf. ImageImage
In fact, Phillip Danault, aka Rabbi Levi Welton @RabbiWelton, is one of the few rabbis in the US army with a beard, and an accomplished author! Like a true Chabad Rabbi, he is most commonly seen wearing black and white. ImageImage
JT Compher has many enemies on the ice, but no one would ever suspect that when he puts on his glasses he is actually the mild-manner Director of Friendship Circle of Sharon, Rabbi Naftoli Minkowitz! ImageImage
Pregame this guy calls himself Alexis Lafreniere.

After game he's known as Rabbi Eli Shimshoni. ImageImage
The world calls him Mark Giordano.

Crown Heights knows him as Itzik Benabou. ImageImage
Did you know that Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett has an identical twin brother named Alex Clare @alexanderclare who likes to sing heartfelt Chassidic Niggunim to large crowds to encourage them to do Teshuvah? ImageImage
Last year’s Chabad hockey players thread ⬇️
Here's Sam Reinhart getting ready to take off his skates so he can don his hat & jacket and continue his Shlichus teaching Torah in Cancun as Rabbi Mendel Druk. ImageImage
Here is David Pastrnak, aka Rabbi Yossi Nussbaum, about to hug a Jew after hearing him commit to keeping Shabbat for a month. ImageImage

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