Joel Ward Was Up Shit's Concourse Without a Paddle Last Night
San Jose Shark Joel Ward, who once got trapped in a hotel bathroom, couldn’t find his way to the visitor’s locker room as the Wells Fargo Center last night. Chris Therien actually had to go find him on the concourse and escort him down. We’ll let Therien tell the tale:
Chris Therien: I had the pleasure of escorting Mr. Joel Ward down to his locker room today. He was hanging out on the concourse, guys. The cab dropped him off at the wrong place and he was waiting on the concourse with no ability to get down to the locker rooms. They wouldn’t let him in! They would not let him in.
Keith Jones: That’s two bad things that’s happened to him today.
Chris Therien: I was thinking to myself. How does he not know where to go? It’s not like it’s his first year in the league.
You gotta wonder a few things:
- Does he not have a PR person on the team or an equipment manager or something he can text to say “Hey, come find me”?
- THE CAB? They don’t hook him up with a car service?
- You honestly have to wonder if he wasn’t let in to the locker room – assuming he’s got some kind of Sharks ID that he may not have had on him – because he doesn’t … uh … look like a hockey player. It’s a big assumption, but I could see T.J. McConnell not being let into a visitor’s locker room for the same reason. “Scram kid, you are NOT an NBA player.”
During the game, Ward got slashed in the dick. So it was just a bad day for him overall.