NHL: 19 Players You Would Not Want as a Dinner Guest

NHL players are by far the most personable of professional athletes around.

Rather than talking about how much the love themselves, or bragging about where they are going to take their talents, hockey players are usually the guys to give praise to their teammates and give humble answers.

They are the type of guys that you would like to hang out with or have over for dinner.

Still, even among the classiest athletes are the ones that you wouldn't want to bring anywhere near you for various reasons.

These 19 NHL athletes are the ones that you wouldn't want to have over as a guest at a dinner party.

Steve Ott

I'm all for dinner conversation but Steve Ott would probably ruin any dinner conversation that would come along.

Ott is a famous pest that is most proficient at smack talking. It's possible that Ott has the biggest mouth in the game now and could even rival former teammate Matthew Barnaby as the biggest mouth ever.

Ott's a hard working guy on the ice that you have to admire for his ability to get under people's skin, but if you have him over for dinner I have a feeling that see-food might be on the menu, regardless of whether or not there was any fish since this guy never shuts his mouth.

Todd Bertuzzi

This is a guy who won't be receiving too many dinner reservations from many people for several reasons.

I'm fairly certain that the entire state of Colorado wouldn't welcome him to any type of gathering, but it goes farther than this.

Have you ever seen an interview with this guy? He has so little personality that you would prefer the company of a brick wall.

"How's dinner Todd?"

"It is what it is."

"Okay, is the steak a bit too rare?"

"It is what it is."

"Any room for dessert?"

"It is what it is."

Might as well nickname him Buzz Killington.

Shea Weber

I've got nothing against Shea Weber as a hockey player, the guy is incredibly talented.

Look at him though, he looks like he is already set to jump through the glass and devour the guy in the front row!

He looks like a ravenous yeti that could strike at any time.

And that beard! When the food is being passed around I'd definitely want to make certain that I got a chance to have the plate before he did.

Don't want any surprises if you catch my meaning.

Are these two related?

Cody McLeod

I'm all about the Highlander while he's playing on my team, but I would feel slightly awkward with him sitting across from me.

Yes, I'm sure he's got dentures and all to cover up that very impressive gap right in front, at least we know what he wants for Christmas, right?

I'd be distracted from my own food wondering what bite would be the one that would take those nice pearly whites out.

Zdeno Chara

Again, nothing against Chara as a player.

As a dinner guest on the other hand I'd be frightened.

The guy is a giant and I wouldn't want him to eat members of my family.

Henrik and Daniel Sedin

Henrik and Daniel are incredibly talented guys, and listening to them they seem like they would be pleasant enough guests.

The one that that would concern me is how often they seem to fall down with minimal contact. I mean, at a crowded dinner party somebody could bump into these guys and the last thing I need at my house is somebody acting injured in the middle of my dinner party.

Cheap shot? Yeah, probably. I think they've earned the diver image though.

Matt Cooke

His reputation as the league's most hated player is probably one of the easiest reasons that you wouldn't want the guy at your house, he's just a jerk.

Plus, the guys is such a cheap shot artist I'd be afraid that he would use the fact that my wife was carrying something to the dinner table as an excuse to knock her over.

I don't know that anybody even on his own team would want Matt Cooke over to their house, he's cost them so many penalty minutes and dollars due to suspensions.

Alex Ovechkin's Head

Apart from being incredibly creepy, I could see him playing a practical joke and hiding under the dish where the Turkey is supposed to be.

Not cool.

Mike Ricci

Probably right up there in the contest for one of the ugliest hockey players of all time, Mike Ricci was always well liked in his locker rooms and was a bit of a jokester.

I have no idea whether or not it is true, but I heard a story about him where he took a very interesting path when hitting on a woman in a bar.

It's well known Ricci is missing a few teeth up front and has some dentures for social purposes.

To get a woman's attention, he took out his dentures and dropped them in her glass of wine.

Now I understand they are supposed to be in for social situations, but I'm not sure that that was what they were intended for.

I don't want any surprises in my wine.

Ilya Kovalchuk

Another player that is incredibly talented and seems like a decent enough fellow, but Kovalchuk does have a certain undesirable trait.

Remember the whole circus surrounding his contract during free agency a couple of years back?

I just get the feeling that this guy would demand a 17 course meal because he just likes the number 17, and then he wouldn't eat as much as he asked for.

Talk about a guy who is going to bite off more than he could chew.

Ron Hextall

Ron Hextall is perhaps the most penalized goalie in the history of the NHL, anything can set this guy off.

This would be a horrible match for a dinner party, nobody would talk to each other because you wouldn't want him to just explode out of his chair and take a shot at you.

I guess all you can do for sure is talk about how goalies should be allowed to score more goals, that might be a safe subject.

Bruce Boudreau

You know that being the head coach of a professional hockey team is something that would provide some great conversation, but the type of conversation Boudreau brings isn't quite what you would want at the dinner table.

I'm all for a silly rant here and there, but my goodness this guy's mouth would make a sailor blush!

Sorry, but I'm not inviting that potty mouth over for dinner.

Craig Anderson

Craig Anderson would start off as the best dinner guest ever until he didn't get something that he wanted.

After that, he'd probably just quit until we traded him to another dinner party.

Zing!

Shjon Podein

Shjon Podein is a perfectly nice guy, but he has a past of making some less than sanitary decisions about his clothes.

I know that he had just won the Stanley Cup when he kept his hockey gear on for 25 straight hours, but that would definitely make me wonder how long he had been in whatever clothes he was wearing.

Is that the roast beef, or Podein? Hard to tell.

Marty McSorley

This guy once slashed a dude across the face with a stick, I don't want him near my dinner table.

If I need a body guard one day, then I might give him a call.

He seemed to protect Gretzky for a long time with great efficiency.

Billy Smith

Perhaps the only other goalie in NHL history that could claim to have a mean streak bigger, or at very least the same size as Ron Hextall's.

If you were in his way he would hack you, trip you, punch you and do whatever else he could to get you out of the way.

I somehow feel similar treatment could be given to those who stood in the way of his food.

Sean Avery

Sean Avery is a guy that agitates the living daylights out of any and everybody near him on the ice.

I'm not certain that anybody would want to have him over to dinner because he always wants to make sure he gets first dibs on all of the food. He just leaves everything a mess.

Nobody wants seconds after Avery's had his piece.

Sidney Crosby

Sidney Crosby might be the only one on this list that I would make an exception for, but I'd have to work really hard on this one.

I'd have a terribly difficult time not picturing that horrible excuse of a mustache that he grew a little while back.

It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't also a fan of Lonely Island. I just can't stop picturing Crosby doing the creep with that mustache.

Just plain disturbing.

Miroslav Satan

I'm sorry, but I just can't justify inviting the devil himself to dinner, I was raised Catholic thank you very much.

Bringing Satan into my house is just something that I can't allow.

Nothing personal, I just refuse to sell my soul for a jersey, or whatever he might use to tempt me.