Justin Bieber takes to the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs in December. Bakersfield Condors coach Matt O’Dette notes, ‘He looks like he’s a decent skater. He’s got good hands. He handles the puck well.’
They’re trying to put Bieber fever on ice.
A minor league hockey team is attempting to land the biggest of all free agents — “Boyfriend” singer Justin Bieber.
The Bakersfield Condors of the East Coast Hockey League announced Tuesday that the team is offering the 18-year-old Stratford, Ontario, product an amateur tryout contract.
“He’s a Canadian kid, he grew up playing hockey,” Condors coach Matt O’Dette told the News. “He’s no stranger to being on the ice. And in that video he looks like he’s a decent skater. He’s got good hands. He handles the puck well.”
Okay, sure it’s a good-natured publicity stunt to maybe get some of Bieber’s 27.8 million Twitter followers to the rink. But ’Dette — himself a hulking former defenseman — was impressed by video footage of Bieber skating with the Toronto Maple Leafs during a practice in December.
The team has yet to hear back from Bieber; a rep for the singer didn’t return a request for comment from the News, either.
But there’s hope: The Condors play just a two hour drive north of the star’s Calabasas, Calif., home.
“We know he has a tour that rolls through here in October, it might be an easy pit stop for him, who knows?”
Never say never.
Tweens can take heart that the Condors would never ask Bieber to drop the gloves and risk damaging that pretty face.
“He’d be labeled as a skill player, if we had to put a label on him for hockey purposes,” says O’Dette. He wouldn’t be known as an enforcer or a physical player, that’s for sure.”
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