POULIN: Yes, now I am! [Laughs.] To be honest, it was during COVID, our little son in our life. Out of nowhere we went to get him. It was a change of routine, and it was fun.
STACEY: We got the name googling ‘unique dog names’ [laughs]. So many of our friends have dogs. We wanted a unique name that none of our other friends had named their dogs before. We tried to find something a little bit different and clearly we only got to ‘A’ on the list of unique dog names [laughs]. So, Arlo. It was one we both agreed on. When we went to the little farm to pick him up, we called, “Arlo!” There was about eight dogs and he came running to his name and we were like, “That’s it!”
Arlo isn’t the only fresh addition — there’s also an RV.
POULIN: It’s 26 feet, it’s pretty much brand-new. There’s a big bed at the back, there’s a toilet, a little kitchen. It’s pretty spacious.
STACEY: It’s huge. I remember we rolled up to [teammate Natalie] Spooner’s wedding this summer in the RV and Spooner’s whole family was like: “Oh my gosh, I didn’t think it was going to be this big!” It took up kind of the whole driveway [laughs]. Her RV’s awesome. She loves it, that’s for sure. She’s a big RV girl.
And I think the RV, she might not say it, but she did buy it as a family thing, for her parents. When they were young they would go camping and on trips like that. I think that’s a cool side point. Yeah, she’s an amazing hockey player, but family is so important to her as well. I think the RV is a little bit of a connection to that and getting to spend time outside of the rink with them.
POULIN: When I have the time in the summer to go out and go camping with the RV, I find that fun. We were lucky enough to have five days last summer just to go around a couple different camping grounds and being by the water. I love going outside, being outdoorsy, just going for walks.
STACEY: Nature. She loves nature.
POULIN: I would love to go across Canada, and down to the States, make a little trip there.
JENNER: We were talking about it the other day because we were going to try to get her to bring the RV to Ontario this summer. My in-laws have a place on the lake and the Rattrays [the family of teammate, Jamie Lee] have a place on the same lake. So we’re trying to coordinate, how do we get the team up there and get Pou to bring the RV?
POULIN: I do like driving it, it’s pretty fun.
STACEY: I feel safer when she’s driving than when I’m driving it that’s for sure [laughs]. I got to drive it for the first time this summer and only in a straight line, like only on the highway. I don’t feel comfortable parking it. She has driven it tons of times, she had a previous RV even before that, not nearly as big, so she’s had plenty of experience.
POULIN: No accidents yet! [Laughs.]
The oral history of ‘Captain Clutch,’ Marie-Philip Poulin
Source: Pinas Ko Mahal
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