The Al Iafrate "Dude, just shave it" Receding Hairline Award

[Chainshot]

I played poker with gino odjick and the size of his hands was all I noticed. Felt like they were 3x the size of mine, and I'm 6'3

I can picture him palming the entire deck.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I played poker with gino odjick and the size of his hands was all I noticed. Felt like they were 3x the size of mine, and I'm 6'3

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Matthews looks really awful

 

[sufferer]

I generally agree, but whether or not he was balding is so hard to say since he spent pretty much his entire tenure on the Panthers with a shaved head. Who knows, maybe just long enough to get those thin spots filled in? One thing we do know though… the man who used to look like a furless cat now looks like caveman.

You can clearly see his hairline is normal even when it's buzzed.

 

[SenzZen]

"Hey: I noticed that you are losing your hair! Why not get rid of the hair you have left?"

Yet another misnomer thread- like the Cheechoo Award one.

Al Iafrate is the perfect example of why you keep that shit. It's glorious!

 

[Kranix]

Mangiapane. I'm sorry buddy, it's over.
Here he is normally.

And here he is wearing his toupee

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Shatty always had awful hair, and I want to say Patrick Kane had some really embarrassing locks too IIRC.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

The good ol' Planet Al skullet.

This one is well on its way:

Forget the forehead...he's bypassed the fivehead...Matthews has a sixhead.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Who is currently rocking the most egregious receding hair line in the NHL? For reference, this is what Iafrate was working with in his prime:

Crazy to think he was only in his mid 20's. He looks like he's 50.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

The good ol' Planet Al skullet.

This one is well on its way:

The turtleneck & jacket combo is really what makes this whole look work.

 

[Cotton]

As an 18 year old, he played his WJC with a green Mohawk. Unfortunately, no pictures exist that I know of.

This is the only photo I can find, Mohawk, but not dyed green yet.

 

[The Burdened]

too many people go with the basic bitch bald head/beard look.

I like middle aged men looking like sleazy middle aged men it's a time honored look that one should embrace.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

You can clearly see his hairline is normal even when it's buzzed.

Yeah, I came into the thread erroneously focusing more on balding in general. Which, he probably wasn’t balding, but you never know!

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

It's weird to me to see a young, successful man of today make the series of conscious decisions necessary to look like a sleazy seventies porn producer

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[karhukissa]

I generally agree, but whether or not he was balding is so hard to say since he spent pretty much his entire tenure on the Panthers with a shaved head. Who knows, maybe just long enough to get those thin spots filled in? One thing we do know though… the man who used to look like a furless cat now looks like caveman.

It's actually very simple to say that he was never balding. You can see that his hairline has stayed the same and it's extremely rare that your hair is melting from the top but hairline stays intact. And now since you can see that he's got full hair it's safe to say that he never suffered from MPB.

My vote goes to Laine, just shave it off Pate.

 

[kanucks25]

As someone who is losing it, this thread offends me

Probably going to have to shave sometime this year.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

It's actually very simple to say that he was never balding. You can see that his hairline has stayed the same and it's extremely rare that your hair is melting from the top but hairline stays intact. And now since you can see that he's got full hair it's safe to say that he never suffered from MPB.

My vote goes to Laine, just shave it off Pate.

I respect your point, but balding present itself from more than just a receding hairline and it’s not “extremely rare” as you say. In many cases, it’s very easy to temporarily or permanently treat thinning hair that would otherwise be in the spirit of this thread (despite not being a receding hairline).
This is all moot though, it was just an opportunity to make a joke, since Jokinen spent virtually a decade pseudo-bald before turning into Flowkinen.

 

[Foppberg]

It's weird to me to see a young, successful man of today make the series of conscious decisions necessary to look like a sleazy seventies porn producer

Meh, I like it. It's better than the bland vanilla style that 99.9% of hockey players have.

 

[Torspo21]

As an 18 year old, he played his WJC with a green Mohawk. Unfortunately, no pictures exist that I know of.

 

[Weltschmerz]

These days they could just replace the missing hair, Jürgen Klopp did that.

But hockey players don't even replace missing teeth so not sure they will be interested to do it with hair.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

the CRAZIEST part about the whole Al Iafrate picture is the fact he is only 26 years old in it

 

[ayrton2388]

There's people like Lebron James, who are way too self-conscious, and there's people like Getzlaf who just didn't give a f.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Shattenkirk was pretty bad until he finally chopped it off.

Nathan Todd (AHL) is also pretty bad as well.

Derek Stepan is another one.

 

[Stony Curtis]

"Hey: I noticed that you are losing your hair! Why not get rid of the hair you have left?"

Yet another misnomer thread- like the Cheechoo Award one.

Al Iafrate is the perfect example of why you keep that shit. It's glorious!

If by "glorious" you mean "if he wasn't a millionaire he'd never get a date," then we're in agreement.

Many years ago I used to play drop in hockey at University of Michigan-Dearborn. Iafrate showed up once, and it was amazing just to watch him skate. At the time, his mullet was prehensile like the tail of a monkey or opossum. I was coming down the right wing, and I got very lucky and walked him. His mullet reached out and slashed me. I had a bruise on my forearm for a week. As I slid into the corner crumpled over I thought, "I'm gonna get even with that mullet. WWTW do (what would Tiger Williams do) in this situation?"

Later in the game I heard the mullet chirping me. Iafrate's mullet was such a douche. I hated that mullet. I still haven't gotten revenge, but by now it may be too late.

Some of this is true. Some of this is better.

 

[Murky]

It's weird to me to see a young, successful man of today make the series of conscious decisions necessary to look like a sleazy seventies porn producer

Because why not? He can do it and get away with it. Life is far too serious when even entertainment like hockey is serious business. Go Auston!