This opener supposedly comes from the stick of Tony “The Brickhouse” Bellini, a beer-league defenseman built like a vending machine and skated like one too. Tony wasn’t fast, but he didn’t need to be. He had one job: stand in front of whoever thought they were getting near his goalie and gently (or not gently) convince them otherwise.

His legendary stick finally snapped during a Tuesday night 10:45 pm game after he tried to clear the puck and accidentally cleared the opposing winger into the bench instead. The ref called it “excessive enthusiasm.” Tony called it “just warming up.”

After the game, while icing his knees with two Coors Lights, he tossed the broken stick into the garbage. One of the guys fished it out, wiped off the arena nacho cheese someone had spilled on it, and decided Tony’s lumber deserved a second life.

So it got reforged into what you’re holding now: an Enforcer with the spiritual energy of a man who once argued with a Zamboni driver for “cutting him off.”

If you swear your beer tastes a little more aggressive when you use it, that’s just Tony saying hello.