The facilities in Yellowknife are true to the branding - they are evil. When you walk to the practice facilities all the games Yellowknife has lost over the years are written down to the walls. The results, the players involved, if there was a costly error that decided the game, the whole event is transcribed as accurately as possible. If you go running on a treadmill, you will be facing a wall that has inspirational quotes written on them. For example, ''You suck'' and ''I hope you fall down'' are just a few examples of the texts that the players see as they run on the treadmills. The idea is to make the players tougher mentally. The showers are dark rooms with red water coming down! They use some kind of coloring substance to make it happen, but many players have reported that at times they do push real blood down the showers. Especially if the team is losing multiple games in a row, it's fair to assume that at some point you will have clean yourself with real blood.
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