Bobblehead Graveyard
Dylan Demelo Gets Kicked Off the Bus
To promote the 2017-18 NHL season, the San Jose Sharks called on Tomas Hertl and Dylan Demelo to make a commercial of themselves heckling their elementary school bus driver.
MoreTom Wilson’s Wilson Bobblehead Gets Lost, Resurfaces
For Halloween in 2015, Wilson dressed up as Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway. In 2016, the Capitals held a vote for a stadium giveaway bobblehead, in which Braden Holtby won by a landslide.
MoreJustin Williams’ Hair Doesn’t Get the Bobblehead Treatment
The Capitals gave fans three candidates for the 2016 bobblehead election. The candidates were Tom Wilson, Williams in his 2015-16 team photo, and Braden Holtby squirting his water bottle. Holby won the election, by a landslide, and his bobblehead got made. A different version of Wilson's got handed out in 2021, but Williams's never got made.
MorePoliceman Mike Moore Doesn’t Make The Cut
Fans got to vote for a bobblehead of either Mike Moore as a police officer or Mike Moore as a firefighter. The firefighter won.
MoreThe Vanishing Evansville Icemen Bobblehead
The Evansville Icemen mysteriously dropped a bobblehead night from their promotional calendar.
MoreTomas Kaberle Traded Before His Bobblehead Night
A Tomas Kaberle bobblehead was slyly changed to a Jamie McBain bobblehead.
MoreDetroit Red Wings Alumni Bobblehead Set Locked Out
Darren McCarty, Kirk Maltby, Kris Draper, Steve Yzerman, Chris Osgood, and Vladimir Konstantinov were all promised bobbleheads but due to the NHL collective bargaining standoff, we never got to see what they would have looked like.
MoreRoberto Luongo Gets Stanley Cup Bobblehead Without Winning Cup
When a team wins the Stanley Cup, Forever Collectibles releases concept drawings of the upcoming bobbleheads, but this one of Roberto Luongo made it as far as the prototype stage after the Canucks jumped out to a 3-2 series lead against Boston in 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
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