Former Vegas Golden Knight deemed to have the most punchable face in the NHL

Remember Nick Cousins, Vegas Golden Knights fans? He was on the team for, like, seven games and scored a goal and two assists in 2019-20. You also know him as the guy that Adin Hill made that ridiculous save on in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Well, it seems that people want to deck him in the schnoz. We're talking about a full-blown Falcon Punch to Cousins. How did they find this out, you ask? The Athletic ran an anonymous player's poll that cited who they wanted to knock out the most.

To be fair, Cousins' face does look like the perfect model for LL Cool J to knock out. However, it takes a special kind of face to beat out traditional punchable players like Matthew Tkachuk and Brad Marchand. Heck, Cousins had 24.3% of the vote! 24.3%! Beating out Marchand by an impressive margin is nothing to scoff at, mind you.

What's ironic about all this is that he doesn't have many penalty minutes in his career. He has 384 all-time penalty minutes entering Tuesday, with his career-high coming in 2023-24 (64) with... the Florida Panthers. What's with Florida and getting punchable players on their team?

Why Nick Cousins being the most punchable guy in the NHL is funny (and kinda makes sense)

First, not converting on an open net in the Stanley Cup Final is a punchable crime upon itself. You mean to tell me that you can't score with the goaltender in a vulnerable position? That deserves a Falcon Punch alone.

Also, he was a Florida Panther. The Panthers are keen on collecting punchable players like they were Infinity Stones, making everyone slowly despise them. Cousins was a part of that punchable gang, winning a Stanley Cup in the process. The sheer fact that he partook in these festivities (especially with a Tkachuk) should warrant some knuckle sandwiches.

Most of all, he just has the face. He looks like the type of guy that would talk smack about your grandmother and laugh about it without any remorse. He's as bad as the kid with the long sideburns who won't let you sleep. Why? Because he makes way too much noise and can't help it.

That's essentially what Cousins is here. He's the guy who hates razors and has no self-reflection or concept of other people around him. He's like the Summerlin mom who's nearing middle age, chews her gum like a camel, and continues to take selfies despite that middle age mark. People like that tend to be the most annoying people around. I wouldn't be remotely surprised if Cousins conducted himself like that, too.

You know, we all need a personal Ryan Reaves to take with us wherever we go. Some people seem like punchable figures and you'd want to have someone lay a five-finger rock on them. Heck, you'd even want Reaves to do the deed for you. For NHL players across the league, it seems that a former Vegas Golden Knight has received the "honor" of being punchable.

Umm... yay?