Hockey players, specifically Canadian hockey players, are renowned for a lot of things: their badassity, their fighting ability, their ridiculous haircuts and general dismissal of fashion (annoying pretty boy and Canadian Sean Avery aside), their storied traditions concerning facial hair.

Dan Carcillo is the holy grail of the above requirements:

1.  Canadian?  Born in King City, Ontario.

2.  Badassity?  He has grown a stache to honor past Flyers such as forward Dave Schultz.

3.  Fighting ability?  Carcillo led the NHL in penalty minutes in 2007-2008.  It’s safe to assume that he understands the rules of hockey (read: dude fights).

4.  Ridiculous haircuts?  Combining his Shawn Hunter/Eric Matthews haircut from 1999 with his skinny stache, if he was out of his Flyers uniform he would not be allowed near children.

5.  Storied traditions?  The guy grew a mustache to honor the men who paved his way, an honor on par with being elected to the Hall of Fame.  Come playoff time, Carcillo’s mustache may be swallowed by his playoff beard, but until then, he is the official Stachist representative in the NHL.