“We haven’t touched it or anything, but it looks good in the apartment.” “He actually brought his back, but its just been sitting there,” Coyle said. The former University of Denver Pioneer brought his back to Minnesota, so there’s still a glimmer of hope that he’ll pick the instrument up again - some day. Zucker cracked that he’d probably never see Coyle’s six- string again. “I don’t know if you want to say they taught you.”įollowing a long road trip and faced with the struggles of learning, the pair soon lost interest in the instrument.Īfter a summer of inactivity, Coyle left his guitar back in his hometown of Weymouth, Mass., to collect dust. “We were laughing the whole time because there were some characters on those DVDs,” Zucker said. They also ran into another problem while trying to learn: the teachers on the instructional DVDs were a bit out there. “But I could never get my pinky involved. “It just made me think of Guitar Hero I used to love playing,” Coyle said. The pair picked up a few chords and learned where to place their fingers, but quickly switching between arpeggios, it turns out, was much more difficult than a forward-to-backward pivot on the ice. However, the muscles used to fire a puck 100 mph are not necessarily the same ones you need to bend vibrato on an E-string. The same patience and training that it takes to develop an NHL slap shot goes into learning an instrument. “We thought it would be a few strings and you’re good,” Zucker said. How hard could it be to learn the guitar? The dedication, repetition and perseverance it takes to become an award-winning country artist is similar to the practice and sacrifice it takes to develop into a National Hockey League player. “The first couple of weeks we spent a lot of time learning.”Įager students, they invested in music books and learn-to-play DVDs. “I was at the rink two hours a day and the rest I was home with nothing to do,” Zucker said. He would spend a couple of hours at the rink, but he was unable to skate, so learning the six-string would provide a good mental break. The Las Vegas product was coming off an injury, and was rehabbing and working out. The very next day Zucker went out and purchased instruments for each of them. “Man, that would be cool to learn how to play guitar like that,” Zucker added. “We went to a concert last year, Luke Bryan, and he was playing the guitar and we were like, ‘We’ve got to go get guitars.’” Coyle said. Like a child who attends his first Wild game and then wants to play hockey, Coyle and Zucker decided they wanted to learn how to play the guitar. The concert was a life altering experience for the duo - if only as fleeting as a guitar solo. On this night, however, the friends were just like the other 16,000 fans in attendance - completely captivated by Bryan’s act and showmanship. Typically, the arena is where the Wild forwards perform as part of the main attraction. With the ice covered beneath the arena’s temporary floorboards, Wild teammates Charlie Coyle and Jason Zucker figuratively traded their hockey skates for cowboy boots for a night of foot stomping and singing along. Last season, country music super star, Luke Bryan, played in front of a sold-out Xcel Energy Center crowd the day before the Minnesota Wild was set to host the Calgary Flames.
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