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And according to The Hockey Writers, it’s just the same as when he was in Washington and had a ‘safe word’.

“A couple of the guys gave me a safe word if I was getting too excited,” Schmidt said. And what exactly was that word? “That’s going to stay with me. Brooks Orpik, if you ever get a chance, he’s the one who originated it. Sometimes I would just get too excited, and he would just go, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, take a deep breath, just relax a little bit.’ ” (source)

Edit: Apparently the safe word was... penguin.

“"He obviously has a lot of energy, right?" said Washington defenseman Brooks Orpik, who was paired with Schmidt some last year. "But he's fun. Over an 82-game schedule, you need guys like that. . . . There are days where you come in, you feel tired. Once you see him, you don't feel very tired anymore."

But Schmidt's motormouth can't run constantly over six months of a season. When it got to be too much, the Capitals developed a "safe word" that, when uttered, signaled to Schmidt to calm the bleep down: "Penguin."

Do we need a caption? I don’t know how to caption this.

Look at Holtby. You never see him smile as much with any team member as he did with Nate Schmidt.

They were friends. Holtby kept rookie Nate under his roof. Plane buds. Halloween parties. Went shopping together. 

And then Holtby, as a Vezina finalist, went to the NHL Awards, the day of the Vegas Expansion Draft.

“And from the Washington Capitals, the Vegas Golden Knights pick Nate Schmidt!”

And like that, Vegas took Nate Schmidt away from Braden Holtby.

And Holtby couldn’t smile for a long while after.