--- title: Kalamazoo Wings Hockey Player Plays Super Troopers Meow Game: Video description: Kalamazoo Wings hockey player Ray Kaunisto played the "meow game" from the comedy Super Troopers in a recent in terview. canonical: https://time.com/3620169/hockey-player-meow-game-super-troopers/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-05T15:54:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:03.503Z og:title: Watch a Hockey Player Casually Slip the Word 'Meow' Into an Interview Seven Times og:description: He pulls off the game from 'Super Troopers' flawlessly og:url: https://time.com/3620169/hockey-player-meow-game-super-troopers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04bd91484b5a0d00/69876cfaa988cae7c36ab351/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-52-42-am.png?branch=production&width=713&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 713 og:image:height: 401 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 10.52.42 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Hockey Player Casually Slip the Word 'Meow' Into an Interview Seven Times twitter:description: He pulls off the game from 'Super Troopers' flawlessly twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04bd91484b5a0d00/69876cfaa988cae7c36ab351/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-52-42-am.png?branch=production&width=713&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Hockey Player Casually Slip the Word 'Meow' Into an Interview Seven Times > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 5, 2014 3:54 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 5, 2014 3:54 PM UTC Kalamazoo Wings hockey player Ray Kaunisto decided to spice up an otherwise mundane interview by playing the “meow game” from the comedy _Super Troopers._ (For the uninitiated: the game comes from a scene in which a cop pulls over a driver and proceeds to sneak the word “meow” into the conversation as many times as possible. That’s it.) Kaunisto does a respectable job, managing to meow seven times in a 40-second interview. As ESPN [points out](http://espn.go.com/espn/story/%5F/page/instantawesome-meowgame-141203/hockey-player-does-meow-game-super-troopers-intermission-interview), reporter Ben Garrod seems to get the joke, but remains composed and doesn’t crack a smile until the interview’s over. 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