Who Are you with Patrick Maroon

In the fourth installment of a new semi-regular feature on my radio show on TSN 1260 called Who Are You, I caught up with Patrick Maroon.

We discussed music, hobbies, being a prankster and more.

We saw the emotional side of Maroon after Monday’s victory in St. Louis. It’s easy to forget the human side of sports and athletes at times, and he reminded us he is just like any father. He misses his son when he’s away. It was great.

Today you’ll read about the lighter side of Maroon.

Patrick Maroon: It’s going really good. I do a lot of the talking and Nuge [Ryan Nugent-Hopkins] doesn’t really say much so I enjoy it. Maybe I have a career after hockey.

Maroon: Actually it only takes about ten minutes to be honest. We say the line and if they don’t like it we say it again. And then they usually take one line at a time. If they like the line then we’ll just go to the next line and then ‘OK say this line again and then we’ll take it’.

Maroon: No, I think I get him pretty good. Nuge and I have fun doing it, but I think I got him pretty good there in the last one.

Maroon: Country.

Maroon: I wish that I was going. I think that we’re out of town. I’m not sure though, but I would love to go.

Maroon: Luke Bryan.

Maroon: His performance gets the crowd going, and I like what he does at the end with the beers (laughs).

Maroon: Florida Georgia Line and Garth Brooks.

Maroon: I am, I really am. Me and my girlfriend, we actually sing out loud. We catch ourselves all of the time. She doesn’t like country music so I blare it, just to annoy her. (Laughs).

Maroon: She likes soft rock, like old school rock and all that good stuff and she likes the new generation of music, obviously Justin Bieber.

Maroon: I do. I sing with her.

Maroon: If he came after me (laughs), and I broke his stick and he’s challenged me in a fight, ya I would give him a go (laughs).

Maroon: I think so. I think I would take him (laughs), I don’t think he’s that strong on his skates.

Maroon: You know what, I think if your music is on the radio, I don’t’ think that it’s really cheesy. My song, but I really like her, is Tracey Chapman and Fast Car. If it comes on, I blare it.

Maroon: Going to the roller hockey rink and working on my game. My uncle manages a roller hockey rink. I grew up playing it. I go there and I mess around, I work on my skills, my hands and I go there with my kid. So that’s technically my hobby.

Maroon: Actually yeah because I want, when they go around the turns, I want to get a nice big hit. That would be fun (laughs).

Maroon: Oooh, that’s a tough one. Um, I know [Zack Kassian] Kass played a little bit, I would say, probably Connor [McDavid], who knows? I mean everything he touches turns into gold.

Maroon: I have not, it might be interesting to see him run. He might run on his toes hey? (Chuckles).

Maroon: I played everything, soccer, baseball, basketball, but obviously my sport outside of hockey was soccer. My dad played professionally, he played in D1 College so I think that was my sport besides ice hockey and roller hockey.

Maroon: I don’t. I did watch some of the MLS championship game, but other than that, not often. I’ll watch the World Cup obviously, I watched women’s World Cup, I watch all USA events but other than that I really don’t watch much, but I would love to get into it.

Maroon: No, because I don’t play. I would love to play, but I just feel like it just takes too much energy out.

Maroon: There are only a handful of guys who don’t play and I’m one of them.

Maroon: Maybe, I’ve just never played it before, I don’t have it in my routine. I feel like if I did play I would get so excited and then before I got on the ice I would lose all of my energy. I can’t afford to waste any energy (laughs).

Maroon: I can be. I learned my lesson the hard way when I did it one year in the NHL.

Maroon: I cut everyone’s socks on their toes and their boxers. It didn’t go over well.

Maroon: Not the team, the guys… one guy was upset, other than that everyone thought it was hilarious.

Maroon: It was not Corey Perry, I think it was Kevin Bieksa. (Laughs).

Maroon: No, we were at home at our practice arena. I got it back though. I got some things back too. I think [Ryan Getzlaf] Getzy told me to do something funny and I did. I took it too far maybe.

Maroon: All of my laces were cut, socks were missing, I think that pretty much all of my clothing were missing. So I had to find ways to get home with no clothes.

Maroon: No. I don’t (laughs) I wish I did, I wish I was artistic like Kass, but unfortunately, I don’t have any hidden talents.

Maroon: I do not. Do I look like a man who reads books?

Maroon: No, I do not read books. If I do read, I read the news, the articles, the stuff going on in the world. But other than that I really don’t have a hobby like Kass and drawing. We have done gingerbread houses over the holidays, we do carving pumpkins but I’m always the guy who’s the worst one. So…

Maroon: Yeah, absolutely. He’s obviously the best player to ever play the game and to have a chance to meet him last year was pretty special. I know he came around St. Louis a lot, I know that they have a house there. It was nice to finally meet him, and I got the chance to meet him a lot this summer and catch up with him and hang out with him and have a good talk with him. It’s pretty neat to listen to some good words from a player who was the best player in the world.

Maroon: Honestly I’d love to meet country artists like Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Georgia Line, I would love to meet all of those guys, Garth Brooks. I got the chance to meet Brett Kissel the other night and that was pretty cool. Just to listen o those guys entertain and what it takes to go out there every night and perform in front of, even if it’s just two thousand fans or twenty thousand fans, I would just love to sit down with them to find out how do you get up for that, what do you do before, what do you prepare for. And it’s honestly like us, what we do. We’re entertainers and we play every other day. We’re always on the road when we travel so I would love to just pick their brain because obviously if I had a hobby to pick up a guitar and start singing, I would want to do that.

Maroon: I do sing Karaoke and my go to song is…Hootie and the Blowfish, Let Her Cry.

Maroon: It is a tough song but I think that my vocals come out when I sing that song (laughs).

Maroon: I’m not, but I own a pair of boots. I know that.

Gregor: Any tight Wranglers?

Maroon: No.  You know what, actually I just picked up a pair of Wranglers for a Halloween costume, so now I own a pair of Wranglers.

Maroon: I do have a country hat, yup. Me and two of my buddies, Kyle Kramer and Shawn Darsh, we go to a lot of country music festivals and stuff. So we have our pair of boots, we put our hats on and we listen to music.

Maroon: I do not dip. I don’t do anything. Nothing.

Maroon: Well yeah! (Laughs). My body is a temple. I don’t think that’s right (laughs), but yeah, we’ll keep it that way.

Maroon: No problem. Anytime. I’m Patrick Maroon.

Maroon has a dry wit. His subtle little chirps at teammates, McDavid runs on his toes, and himself, caveman appearance and non-temple body, were great.

His sign off made me laugh the most, “Anytime, I’m Patrick Maroon.” His delivery of the line was great, plus the subtle reminder of “who he is” was quite funny.

Starting today and every Thursday at 2:20 MST on TSN 1260 we will have former NHL referee Kerry Fraser on the show discussing NHL officiating. We have a lot to discuss from last night. I felt Eric Gryba and Zack Kassian calls were incorrect. Gryba should have had nothing, while Kassian a two-minute crosscheck not a match penalty. I also believe the McDavid plays with Martinook and Stone were correct. Those weren’t penalties in my eyes. We will see what Fraser thinks.

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