Gatineau-based Ottawa Senators fan Jay Trepanier never thought attending the Thanksgiving Day game at the Canadian Tire Centre would result in the creation of his new alter ego. "I'm just trying to enjoy a crazy game, and people are texting me nonstop," Trepanier recalls of the day. It was a wild victory, with the Senators beating the Los Angeles Kings 8-7.
But the attention of the television cameras could not be pulled away from Trepanier. Sporting jeans and a denim jacket, also known as a Canadian tuxedo, a flowing mullet haircut and enacting a contagious goal celebration, Trepanier was as much a part of the day's entertainment as the on-ice action was. "I thought they probably put me on TV just like one or two times, and then I come to realize I'm on it all the time.
And they've now baptized me 'mullet man,'" he said. It's a persona that the 27-year-old French-English musician has embraced since that day. "Now people will refer to me more and more as mullet man, and they want me to do the [goal celebration] and all that.
" He says the celebration, mimicking the referee's signal of a goal by pointing to the centre dot, is one he and his brother love to do. Trepanier says they were celebrating his brother's birthday at the game. The hairstyle and fashion sense were adopted about a year ago, at first for a themed party, "but then I started digging just the energy around it.
" Since then, the mullet man's popularity has soared. The Senators organization invited Trepanier to sing.
