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Joe 'Exotic' Pavelski finally paying off for the Dallas Stars in the 2020 NHL playoffs

The relaxed dress code in the NHL's bubble-based postseason has produced some memorable fashion choices. Like, for example, when Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg wore a T-shirt featuring teammate Joe Pavelski's smiling face digitally edited onto the body of infamous former zookeeper Joe Exotic as he hugged a Bengal tiger.

The origin of that shirt, as the story goes: One day, center Roope Hintz wore a tiger-print shirt to the rink. Pavelski found this to be hilarious, and chirped him for it. The mockery led to Stars forward Mattias Janmark joking about a T-shirt with Pavelski as Exotic, the star of Netflix's quarantine hit docuseries "Tiger King.