It may take years of therapy for Tozer Primary School psychologist Mark Luoma to get over this one.

Thanks to a hockey bet he lost to Jacob Hartmann, a Mountain View Elementary School fifth-grade student, the 35-year-old Luoma walked around Tozer on Friday wearing a diaper, a baby bonnet on his head, a pacifier draped around his neck and a T-shirt that read, "Red Wings Rule, Avs Drool."

Luoma, a Colorado Avalanche fan who collects and trades hockey cards and memorabilia, will probably never make a friendly wager with an 11 year old again, especially after the Avs were swept 4-0 by the Red Wings in the Western Conference semifinal.

Jacob, the son of Jim and Paula Hartmann of Windsor, is a big Detroit Red Wings fan and for good reason. Jacob's cousin is Brett Lebda, a 26-year-old defenseman for the Red Wings.

Jacob was all smiles after the Red Wings' 8-2 rout of the Avalanche on Thursday night.

"I was very happy. I thought it would be like 4-3 at the end of the series, but I was wrong," Jacob said. "I never get overconfident. I knew the Avs were a really good team, but I guess in the end the Red Wings were the better team."

Luoma said Jacob and Paula had the outfit ready for him to wear first thing in the morning.

"They brought in, "We Are The Champions," from Queen and played that while I got dressed," Luoma said. "It was quite a production. I'm a huge hockey fan and a man of my words so I paid my due and paid off my bet. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again."

Ever since Lebda joined the Red Wings three seasons ago, Jacob's been their No. 1 fan in Colorado.

That can be quite risky in Colorado Avalanche country, a place that hates anything to do with the Red Wings. It doesn't matter to Jacob, though, who wears his Lebda No. 22 jersey to school with red sweat pants and a Red Wings cap.

"He's a good player. I can't say anything bad about him, although he did miss a wide-open net in one of the games," Luoma said of Lebda, an Illinois native who played college hockey for Notre Dame.

When the Red Wings were paired up with the Avalanche, Luoma made a bet with Jacob that the loser would have to dress up in hockey gear that the winner provided.

"Mark started this. He was teasing Jacob at school one day saying, 'My wife is making you an Avalanche dress with a matching bonnet to wear when you lose the bet.' So that's when it started, and it just kind of escalated from there," said Paula Hartmann, a media aide at Tozer. "Last week, we took a dress and a feather boa and hung it in his office just to get him nervous. He took that dress and actually took a picture of himself in an Avs jersey sticking out his tongue, and framed that picture with the dress and the feather boa and made a big wall hanging for Jacob."

Paula said Luoma took the loss like a man, despite the diaper and the baby bonnet.

"Mark has been such a good sport through this whole thing. He has been incredibly gracious," Paula said. "Him and Jacob have had so much fun poking fun at each other. It's been a lot of fun the last few weeks for the both of them."

Jacob and his younger brother, Joe, met up with their NHL-playing cousin two seasons ago at the Pepsi Center.

"When Jacob found out that we had family on the Red Wings, that just sparked everything for him," Paula said. "He wears his Red Wings jersey to school probably two or three times a week. The kids all know he's a big Wings fan, and I think he's even converted a few."

Despite the Red Wings' route over the Avs, Jacob was all about being a good sport.

"He told me, 'If the Wings had lost, I would have been so sad. I don't want to make Mr. Luoma feel too bad," Paula said.

Jacob said he was impressed with how Luoma reacted to losing the bet.

"He took it like a very good sport," Jacob said. "I was way, way impressed at how he took it."

T.M. Fasano is the editor of Windsor Now and a crazed Pittsburgh Penguins fan who might just have to place a bet with Jacob Hartmann if the Red Wings and Penguins reach the Stanley Cup Finals. If you have any story ideas, tidbits or anything of interest for All Around Our Town, please call him at 392-5631, or e-mail him at tfasano@mywindsornow.com.