Name this Olympic gold medalist’s baby

It might be time for Scott Reid to grow a playoff beard again. The former Canadian pro hockey player isn’t coming out of retirement, but he and his wife, Meaghan Mikkelson — a two-time Olympic gold medalist in women’s hockey for Canada — will hold a playoff tournament on Twitter to help choose the name of their baby boy, who is expected to arrive in September.

The couple is asking people to send baby names to @Mikkelson12 with the hashtag “#NameMyBaby.”

They’ll pick their eight favorite suggestions Monday and put them to a vote on social media.

Voting will be conducted bracket-style with quarterfinals, semifinals and a final. The bracket will be on Mikkelson’s website meaghanmikkelson.com. They’ll choose their first child’s name from the two finalists.

“We’ve kind of been struggling a little bit to come up with names that really stand out to us and that we really, really like,” Mikkelson told the Toronto Sun. “As a Canadian hockey player and a Canadian athlete we get so much support from our fans. We figured why not ask them for help?

“Each week, one baby name will face off against another. What I’ll be asking my followers to do is to favorite for one name and retweet for the other. Whichever one comes out with the most votes is the one that will move onto the next round until we get down to our last two.

“People probably think we’re crazy, but it’s fun. It will be a fun story to tell our child.”

So long as his name isn’t Lord Stanley.

It was Mikkelson’s idea to tap into Twitter, but Reid warmed to the idea of deciding their son’s name in a playoff hockey format.

“I’m kind of excited since we’re a hockey family, it’s a hockey playoff bracket,” the former minor league player said. “We sit around in the spring just watching playoffs. Now we’ll have playoffs into the summer.”

Reid and any other Canadian who didn’t want hockey season to end can rejoice in the fact that they can now grow their playoff beards until Sept. 25 — which is Meaghan’s due date and the day she’ll make a live announcement of the name of her baby boy from the final two names.

We thought the name Phil would work well for Mikkelson until we realized her son’s last name will be Reid. We’re guessing there’ll be plenty of votes for Wayne, Bobby, Gordie, Mario and Sidney, though Maurice Rocket Reid has a nice ring to it.