This is Brett McConnachie, a.k.a. “The BowX.” Bowx isa Canadian rapper who also plays hockey professionally. Snow on the ice if you will.

McConnachie grew up outside Toronto and now plays for the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League. What could a Canadian hockey player have to rap about besides maple syrup and universal health care?

“I’m talking about my life and different stories – women, club scenes and that whole thing.”

Allow Tulsa’s NewsOn6 to explain the name:

The hip-hop hockey player combined his two passions to form a nickname. While attending college in Alabama, McConnachie was fittingly dubbed, “Penalty Box.” Soon, that name was alter-ego’d.

Yes! A meme!

“Everyone down there had the southern drawls and the accent,” McConnachie said. “I walk into a club and everyone would be like, ‘what up bowx.’ It wouldn’t be like, ‘what up box,’ so I cut the ‘P’ like Diddy and now I’ve got the bowx.”

You can check out The BowX’s MySpace here. Dude has sold nearly 80,000 albums already. I’m just guessing, but that has to be the most rap albums ever sold by a hockey player. (At least until The Life and Times of S. Crosby is finally released.) So which of his dreams would he rather chase?

“If Sony-BMG came knocking at the door and said, ‘here’s a $2 million record deal and they told me it was (rapping) or hockey, I’d have to sit down and have a serious thought process,” McConnachie said. “It’s tough to say, but right now I’m living the dream playing professional hockey.”

Here’s hoping Brett gets to do both. Then we can take him off this list.

[NewsOn6]