These are just a handful of the meals that NHL players eat in order to keep their nutrition up, whether it's after practice or a few hours before game day. Good food is key to success, and for Penguins defender Erik Karlsson his definition of good is subjective to say the least.
Mamma Mia! So let's go through that. We've got pasta, Alfredo sauce, Bolognese (meat sauce), raw red onion, hot sauce (presumably Frank's) and to top it off...and I can't believe I'm saying this: ketchup. Look, I get it. Swedish cuisine is known for some of the wildest concoctions known to man (Saltlakris, basically licorice coated in salt, or most infamously Surströmming; the fermented herring which has a foul stench) but this is something else.
I can understand pasta with meat and Alfredo, trying to make a more savory Rose sauce but ketchup is where the line is drawn. However, for a 15-year veteran it seems to be working and there's no slowing down Karlsson as he enters his age-34 season; not even his diet.
