Yellowknife keep a strict control on their players to ensure maximum discipline on game game. For every penalty that a player commits during a game, they are made to swim across the Great Slave Lake once. This might seem like a harsh punishment especially for players in positions where penalty flags will occur as part of your regular game but it has worked well so far for the team. Not only is everyone fully mentally switched on and prepared on game day, to avoid the miles of icy water that may occur otherwise, but it also helps newer players get acclimatised to the tough Yellowknife weather when they first join as rookies. It also means Yellowknife compete in the national ice swimming olympiad every year and for the last 20 years running, it has been won by a player on the team. Older veteran players eventually become immune to this punishment as they may die in the lake as regression takes away their abilities.
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