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Calgary Flame Tom Kostopoulos reaches up to grab a loose puck during first period NHL action between the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday at the Saddledome in Calgary. CALGARY With Andre Roy(notes), there was never doubt.Whether he was ribbing pending free agent Michael Cammalleri(notes) about joining Mitch Fritz(notes) and Jon Sim(notes) on the New York Islanders power pla football game tonight y, or using his various body parts to creatively wear a Dion Phaneuf(notes) mask, Roy was one hilarious guy.Now retired, Roy was seen Saturday on RDS doing imitations of Jacques Martin.The Flames current funny man? His shtick is not nearly as obvious.Tom Kostopoulos(notes) keeps to himself, doesn t shout into others interviews, and for the most part behaves in public. When the cameras and microp football game tonight hones are trained on him, there s a serious demeanour and deadpan responses.Yet more than one of the Flames, in a pre-season poll, cited him as the funniest teammate they d ever known. The difference between Roy and Kostopoulos is fundamental one takes joy in playing the class clown, the other silently operates as a diabolical prankster. I think I get blamed for more than I actually do, Ko football game tonight stopoulos said with a straight face after practice on Sunday. Other guys like to do stupid things to make the guys laugh. Proficient skulduggery requires a low profile. He s very professional about his job you see it in his interviews, Flames winger Tim Jackman(notes) says. That s how he does it. He doesn t say too much, then he pulls a fast one on you. But it s harmless. It s doesn t ruin yo football game tonight ur day. It brightens up your day, you know what I mean? Not that Kostopoulos takes credit, or blame, for past or present shenanigans. Tommy would never admit when he did a prank, ever, Cammalleri, who played with Kostopoulos on the Los Angeles Kings, told the Montreal Gazette. Which I don t understand. For me, when I pull a prank, I can t wait to laugh and say: I got you! That s the satisfacti football game tonight on. I don t know how Tommy gets satisfaction from never revealing himself as the source. That frustrated me to no end. The key to Kostopoulos s success is subtlety.Asked if he d ever been targeted, Flames defenceman Jay Bouwmeester(notes) shrugged. He hasn t done anything to me yet. Well, not that I know of. Lately someone has been filling stick shafts with water.None of the players, however, appe football game tonight ars eager to tattle. Fear of reprisals is strong.In a masterful change of subject, Jackman said: Did anyone tell you about the shampoo and the hair gel? A classic.While with the Kings, Kostopoulos monkeyed around the beauty products in the coach s quarters. As a result the superbly coiffed Marc Crawford inadvertently styled his hair with shampoo before practice. When the vain skipper hit the ice, football game tonight his mop was pancake-flat mess.Kostopoulos wanted to ding the coaches in Calgary, too.He took video analyst Jamie Pringle s tools of the trade the remote controls and stuck black tape over the sensors, rendering them useless.On this occasion, there s been no clean getaway. Sometimes that backfires, said Flames assistant coach Dave Lowry, without elaborating. But it s always good to have char football game tonight acters like that it keeps everyone on guard, keeps everyone sharp. As far as Lowry #8230; . I try to stay out of all that stuff. Lowry owns a bit of a rep himself.Years back, a game was delayed for hours at the Savvis Center in St. Louis because of a power outage. The lights finally came on, but the dressing room was quickly plunged back into darkness. Lowry had snuck around the corner and football game tonight flipped the switch. (The less said about Oleg Saprykin using a blowtorch as a flashlight the better.)Lowry singles out Lindy Ruff as a peerless prank-puller.As assistant coach with the Florida Panthers in the mid-1990s, Ruff raised the stakes daily. One guy does it, then the next guy has to one-up it, Lowry said. Pockets were getting sewn shut, pant legs were getting cut. It was starting to get football game tonight expensive. A truce had to be called. Lowry said that there s an art to dressing-room trickery not just the how, but the when. It s not always a good time to be pulling stunts. Prime example when Kostopoulos arrived in Calgary last November. Not only were the Flames floundering, he had no book on his victims. It takes a while to get to know the guys personalities, Kostopoulos said. Who can t football game tonight ake it, who can t take it. The guys that can t take it are the ones you go after. Calgary Heraldscruickshank@calgaryherald.comTwitter.com/CruickshankCH Play Fantasy Hockey, now with Pro Leagues! And follow Yahoo! Sports' NHL coverage on Twitter. Updated Oct 30, 9:15 pm EDT football game tonight
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