Staal’s Cup Presser Gets A Brutally Honest Family Question

Championship press conferences can get predictable fast, but this one veers into the kind of awkward honesty only a kid can deliver. A daughter asks Eric Staal about the moment with Matthew Tkachuk, and that alone tells you how the family room and the locker room are never all that far apart. Hockey loves its tough-guy theater, but sometimes the sharpest question in the building comes from somebody who is not trying to sound like a hockey guy at all.