Noel Acciari: Turks and Caicos with Bryan Rust (and then Naples, Florida)<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Turks and Caicos, I learned how to play mahjong. They taught me how to play, so that was fun. We were by the pool, and we played. We had some good dinners, and watched the Super Bowl in Turks, and played mahjong while watching the Super Bowl. We were intense. Enjoyed some quietness without the kids, and then we were in Naples. I was at the pool a lot. Dinners at the pool, chasing the kids around, going in the pool, it was just lowkey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust: Turks and Caicos with Noel Acciari (and then Disney World with Chad Ruhwedel and his family)<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were equally as fun in completely different ways.”<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea: Anguilla with Kevin Hayes, Connor Dewar, Parker Wotherspoon, Ben Kindel and former Penguins Danton Heinen and Matt Grzelcyk<\/p>\n
\u201cJules Heinen and Kev’s wife pretty much set it up. They just asked a bunch of people if they wanted to go. I know a lot of guys already had plans pretty quick, but some of us didn’t. So, we got a good little crew. It was good seeing Grzelcyk and Heinen, too. It was nice to get on the beach, in the water for four days. We had 80-degree weather. We had a really good setup. It was nice. Best thing we did, we had a boat day. It was a bigger boat, not a yacht or anything like that, but there was a lot of room. The water\u2019s so blue there, we parked for three hours, and we were pretty much just sitting on a mat in the water. That was great. And we went to incredible dinners. That was the best part. The food was really good. I’m very picky, but it was right up my alley. I did try sushi for the first time there. I was forced to. I don\u2019t eat seafood. They\u2019ve tried to bully me into it before, especially Cookie [Noel Acciari]. Kev got me this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner: The Bahamas<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was my first time there. It was pretty cool. Definitely a different experience than what I\u2019m used to. Beautiful there. The water was the clearest I\u2019ve ever seen. [MC: What\u2019s vacation Stu like?] It used to be sit or lay down and read a book and hang out. Now, it\u2019s up at 6 AM with the kids and be a dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak: The Bahamas<\/p>\n
\u201cMy girlfriend and I were there for the week, so that was nice. It was a little island off of Exuma that we were staying at. There was lots of sun, chilling, not a lot of activity, but just hanging out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak: Pompano Beach, Florida<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were in Pompano Beach. I have a friend who has a condo there, and he wasn\u2019t there, so he said yeah, just come there with your family. It was awesome. It was a trip where we really didn\u2019t have to worry about anything besides booking our flights. It was awesome. It kind of feels like home, right, because he\u2019s got everything fully loaded in there. It\u2019s almost like an AirBnB, but it\u2019s not, because you know the person. So, we just hung out there, the family \u2013 my wife and two daughters. Lots of pool time, beach time. We did the Palm Beach Zoo, and we rode that water taxi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha: Palm Beach, Florida<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went without the kiddos (daughters Naomie and Vivianne). My wife Caitlyn is 32 weeks pregnant, so we wanted to stay in the States in case something happened. Nothing happened, but you never know. Grandma came and babysat, so it was a really relaxing few days. We were in bed at 9 and waking up at 8, have breakfast and say, what are we doing today? We just booked dinner reservations, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ilya Solovyov: Fort Lauderdale, Florida<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was me, my family, and my friends from Texas. (Vladislav) Kolyachonok, he was in Pittsburgh. We spent a few days together and then me and my family, we stayed for another five days. You can see it on my skin [laughs]. I love to enjoy the ocean. You can honestly do anything that you want in Florida, but for a few days we spent it on Miami Beach and just walked around the ocean. We went there from morning at 10 AM until 7 PM. It\u2019s just walking, enjoying the breeze, the ocean, you can\u2019t beat it. This was our second time in Florida. When my wife and I know that I have a long break, we go to Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor Clifton: New Jersey and Florida<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, one of my good buddies was getting married in Jersey on Friday night, the day after (we played in) Buffalo. So, I stayed in Buffalo. Took the 6 AM flight to his wedding. Flew out the next day at 10 (AM) to Florida. Went down to Clearwater Beach until Thursday. Then we went to Disney World for a couple days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Acciari: Turks and Caicos with Bryan Rust (and then Naples, Florida) \u201cIn Turks and Caicos, I learned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-479234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}