There’s probably a few that are borderline crazy,” Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby said in 2010 about his own pregame routines, which at that time included walking a specific circuitous route through his home arena to avoid passing the visitor’s locker room and wearing the exact same lucky jockstrap he’d had since his junior hockey days to every single game.

Toronto Maple Leafs winger William Nylander has scored in each of his last three playoff appearances, and his pregame outfit has stayed exactly the same through all of them. Since Game 6 of Toronto’s first-round series against the Ottawa Senators, the Maple Leafs forward has worn a beige suit with a white dress shirt to the rink.

Willy Styles is the nickname given to Toronto forward William Nylander by Joe Thornton when the two quarantined with a handful of other Maple Leafs teammates in a Toronto-area home in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. It suggested that Nylander marches to the beat of his own drum, something the eccentric Thornton would know all about.