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TJ Oshie names the one video game he can play over and over

By Ian Oland

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March 22, 2020 5:07 pm

Big brands have asked broad questions to its followings on Twitter to get interaction during the coronavirus pandemic.

Saturday, NBC sports got a reply from Actual Famous Athlete TJ Oshie about what his favorite sports video game is.

It’s a stretch, but we’ll allow it.

Here’s how the conversation went.

Personally, I’m more of a Moo Moo Meadows, guy.

Of course, Oshie’s a big fan of Mario Kart due to the camaraderie the game built during the Capitals’ Stanley Cup run in 2018.

“In the playoffs you get a team suite when you’re on the road because you’re playing in the same city a couple times in a row, which you don’t do during the regular season,” Oshie said to Uproxx. “So they kind of make a suite for us, and I got kind of addicted, I guess, to playing Mario Kart with some of the fellas.

“It was kind of our routine in between games on the road to get a couple games in,” Oshie continued. “Well, I guess more than a couple for some of us. But it was just kind of a bonding thing that we had.”

According to Braden Holtby, former Capitals defenseman and close friend, Nate Schmidt, bought a used Nintendo 64 from an old-school game store in Toronto several seasons before.

“[I]magine a hotel room full of grown men all huddled around a TV,” Holtby said. “It’s a couple of hours before the biggest hockey game of our lives, and everybody’s screaming out, ‘WHEL-COME TOO MAAAAAAR-EEO KART!!!!!!’”

The bonding experience was so powerful, Oshie got Wario, his driver of choice, tattooed on his upper leg. Oshie was one of six Capitals players to get tattoos after winning the Stanley Cup.

Capitals forward Brett Connolly, who was eating pizza while getting inked, also had Bowser tattooed into part of his sleeve on his left arm.

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