Vitajte na NHL. Willkommen auf NHL. Bienvenido a NHL. Metro Prystai scores two goals and Terry Sawchuk earns his fifth career postseason shutout, helping the Red Wings finish in the playoffs. Each tentacle symbolizes one of the eight victories needed to win the Cup during the Original Six era. The tradition has continued, even though the number of victories needed to win the Cup has grown to Video: Cup Final, Gm4: Detroit's octopus toss begins. Goalie Earl Robertson , called up from the minor leagues after Normie Smith is injured earlier in the playoffs, earns his second straight shutout after New York wins two of the first three games.
Robertson has never played an NHL game before his call-up and never plays again for the Red Wings; he spends the next five seasons with the New York Americans. Garry Monahan scores the winning goal and Bob Dailey has two assists. The win evens the series at , but the Canadiens win the next three games. With the Flyers less than a minute from going down in the best-of-7 series, MacLeish scores the tying goal at of the third period, then gets the winner at of overtime; he becomes the first NHL player to score a last-minute tying goal and an overtime goal in the same playoff game.
After losing the first two games at home, the Flyers rally to win the series in six games. At the time there were only two rounds to the postseason. The Red Wings needed to win eight games to hoist the Stanley Cup. Brothers Pete and Jerry Cusimano—owners of a fish market in Detroit's East Side—deemed the octopus, with its eight dangling tentacles, the appropriate symbol, each leg representing a win. The sea-gods approved: The Red Wings went on to sweep both rounds of the playoffs that year, winning the fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history.
Other fans, like Bob Dubisky and Larry Shotwell, have become regionally famous for their tosses. That duo worked together to heave a pound behemoth over the glass during the playoffs. After being hauled off the ice, it was then placed on the hood of the Zamboni—a gleaming, fleshy hood ornament—and then proudly circled around the rink between periods.
Longtime Zamboni driver and building manager Al Sobotka has also earned celebrity status in hockey circles. An unofficial record was set during the playoffs, when 54 octopuses were thrown during one game. The average number, according to Sobotka, is closer to According to league rules, when fans throw objects onto the ice, their team could be issued a delay-of-game penalty. Sobotka, however, has earned something of a free pass. The team mascot is named Al the Octopus, in honor of Sobotka, and an pound sculpture of an octopus is tucked above the Gordie Howe Entrance to the arena, keeping an eye on fans as they stream into the building, some of whom are smuggling in their own, smaller octopods—aiming to land their own story in the lore of the team.
Sports fandom can make otherwise normal people do strange things, and Baddeley is no exception to that rule. Research on the ritualistic consumption of sports has found that participating in practices like the octopus toss allows fans to maintain and celebrate the cultural meanings attached to their teams— it connects them to a larger, identifiable group.
It reinforces their fandom. Baddeley grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, closer to Detroit than Toronto, and there, thanks to his father, the Red Wings became his team—despite the robust pride of nearby Leafs Nation. Baddeley is a chef and handles seafood every day. Before the season home opener, Panther Scott Mellanby obliterated a rat in the locker room with a perfectly placed slap shot and then scored two goals with the same stick.
By the time the playoffs rolled around, Panthers fans were throwing rubber rats to the ice for each Panthers goal. The ritual was so egregious that during the offseason the NHL devised a new rule penalizing home teams for delay of game with similar fan disruptions. The Panthers devised a rat mascot. Fish are a popular choice. The Harvard vs. These days, though, the traditional objects have become predictable. You expect an octopus to hit the playoff ice in Detroit. But how about a prosthetic leg?
One of the frustrations of any passionate hockey fan is the way refs always make calls that benefit your opponent.
Totally unfair, right? Apparently, one anonymous Corpus Christi IceRays fan thought so, too. Maybe he was trying to give his team a leg up on the competition. No one knows for sure. It might simply have been a knee-jerk reaction to all the unfair whistles. Either way, standing for justice is always epic. Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight famously threw a chair across the Indiana Hoosier court during one of his many tantrums.
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