Take a good look at Anton Khudobin during this clip. I mean, take a good, hard look at Anton Khudobin during this clip. Now commit his endless stare and forced chuckle to memory and replay them, either in your mind or on your phone, in order to suppress your own anxiety and annoyance the next time an extroverted Uber driver ignores the headphones he/she can clearly see in the rearview mirror and decides to spark up some small talk and take the scenic route. You know that helpless feeling when a friend's untimely bathroom visit leaves you stranded in talking to a relative stranger. Well, imagine if that bathroom visit came after dinner at a lowly rated and highly suspicious Indian restaurant and that relative stranger had the social graces of someone who was home-schooled by PeeWee Herman, because that's what Anton Khudobin just lived through in sharing an enclosed space with Pierre McGuire for an extended period of time. By all accounts, the Stars' backup goaltender provides the comic relief in the locker room...
Unfortunately, there is nothing funny nor alleviating about being left to potentially interact with the NHL's most awkwardly artless analyst at a moment's notice. For that reason, Anton Khudobin deserves even more credit for doing nothing more than just sitting there than we typically give backup goalies throughout a league in which being the starter makes you a primary scapegoat.
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