Mike Rupp, C, Pittsburgh Penguins
@rupper17
Sample tweet: “Been training far too long with the bad taste in mouth from last years playoffs! Tomorrow is an OPPORTUNITY… And the boys are hungry!”
While his teammates are split on the value of Tweeting, Mike Rupp used his account to document his recent tour of Haiti with fellow teammate Max Talbot. On the hockey front, he recently ran a contest among his 6,000 followers to find a new nickname for the Consol Energy Center – rewarding respondents with game tickets and gloves.