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youngster on YouTube. Well, she’s not really playing in the video, she’s actually trying to beat up the opposing goalie, and getting ejected from the game. (She’s only 10 years old in the video.) Favorite team: Toronto Maple Leafs.
    CUBA GOODING JR. Gooding didn’t play as a kid, but he’s made up for it: “I picked up ice hockey about 10 years ago,” he told ESPN in 2003. “And, being a celebrity, I’ve had the opportunity to play in celebrity games and in pickup games in L.A. with Mario Lemieux, Luc Robitaille, and a lot of the guys who play on the Kings.” Gooding still plays in charity games today, and, if being able to play with Mario and Luc didn’t make you jealous—he also has an ice rink in his back yard. Favorite team: Los Angeles Kings.
    PARIS HILTON. No, she did not play air hockey. (Ba dum bum.) Hilton actually played on the ice hockey team of Canterbury School, a prep school for fabulously wealthy kids in Connecticut. It doesn’t seem to have made a big impression on her, though: When asked during a 2007 interview what position she played, she answered, “I don’t know. I would always move around, I wasn’t just one position.” Favorite team: She can’t remember.
    ALAN THICKE. Best known as the father in the series Growing Pains , Thicke (yet another Ontario native) has played hockey his entire life. And it ain’t for show: “During one of the pickup games, I got in the way of a slap shot,” Thicke said of a 2003 incident, “and it cost me five teeth and 30 stitches.” Bonus: He once had his nose broken during a celebrity hockey game…by Gordie Howe. Favorite team: Toronto Maple Leafs.
    WYATT RUSSELL. He’s not the biggest star on the list—he’s the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and has appeared in some films and television shows over the years—but he’s the only one who’s a pro hockey player. Russell has been a goaltender for junior league teams all over North America and Europe since 2003. Until 2010 Russell was goalie for the Groninger Grizzlies, a professional team in the Netherlands. (He apparently left the team in 2011 to work on a film.) Favorite team: Unknown.
    DENIS LEARY . If you watch Leary’s latest TV show, Rescue Me , it’ll be no surprise that Leary plays hockey, as his firefighting character plays the game in several episodes. Leary grew up playing in Worcester, Massachusetts, and played for his high school, St. Peter-Marian High School…but he got thrown off the team because he couldn’t keep up a C-minus average. He still participates in benefit games on a regular basis. Favorite team: Boston Bruins.
    KEANU REEVES. Reeves hails from Toronto and played goalie for De La Salle College (a high school) there; one year, he was even voted team MVP. According to people in the know, he’s still pretty good. “I’ve been playing since I was eight years old,” he told Top Shelf Hockey Magazine . “I still have all my goaltending equipment and try to play as much as I can in California leagues.” Favorite team: Toronto Maple Leafs.
    TIM ROBBINS. Robbins grew up playing in New York City, and plays in several charity games a year and even in pickup games at public rinks. But he says he’s got to be careful: “Ice hockey is a really cerebral game,” Robbins told The Guardian in 2010. “It can be a beautiful ballet. But I have to keep my head up when I am playing as there’s always that a**hole who recognizes you and wants to tell their friends how they laid Tim Robbins out on the ice.” Favorite team: New York Rangers.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE RINK
    A few hockey men have taken a funny look at the game’s serious side to remind us that it is just a game.
    F ormer NHL head coach Harry Neale is a man who can see a funny side to most situations in hockey and life, and give it a verbal spin to make