It’s been quite the week for retro hockey. Following the Los Angeles Kings’ 90s “Throwback Night” (complete with glow puck on replays and Thomas Middleditch as a sports reporter caricature), the New Jersey Devils held “80s Night” Thursday against the Toronto Maple Leafs. And they delivered a remarkable promo video for it, complete with old-school graphics, players dressed as everyone from Marty McFly to Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, and MSG analyst Ken Daneyko (who played with the Devils for his whole career, from 1983-2003, and is normally quite bald) in an incredible wig:
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There’s even a behind-the-scenes look at that Daneyko hair flip, and a GIF of it with 80s graphics:
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Who's coming out to 80s Night tomorrow? https://t.co/y2LJZpG1Nd pic.twitter.com/KgmqkmZTxK
— Ken Daneyko (@KenDaneykoMSG) January 9, 2019
And he wore the wig on the broadcast:
What do you think @NJDevils fans, should @KenDaneykoMSG keep the blonde flow 80's look?#NJDevils pic.twitter.com/vV6Ou8Jk5K
— MSG Networks (@MSGNetworks) January 11, 2019
Daneyko did actually have hair once, as seen by this General Hospital clip starring him and fellow Devils Doug Brown and John MacLean:
At any rate, the Devils had a lot of fun with “80s Night,” even using retro graphics and handing out Ghostbusters-themed Daneyko bobbleheads:
https://twitter.com/NJDevils/status/1083383949940924416
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And we now know that Daneyko can pull off a mean hair flip.
