Tradition?

Good job Sidney!!

I loved watching Crosby pick up the Prince of Wales Trophy last night. The fact that I have had to watch every season as teams snub the Conference trophies as bad luck was bizarre to me.

When did this become bad luck? At what point does a Captain step back and realize that this idea works only 50% EVERY SEASON. Every season a team who doesn't touch the trophy suffers BAD LUCK! Could it have been analyzed in the 80s when BOTH teams touched the trophy that it was 50% Good luck?

Realistically it came from ONE captain who decided to show his team that the job was not done and they would not celebrate until they touched the Stanley Cup, then the mindless idiots just blindly followed.

Looking at the above photo history shows that 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 Stanley Cup Champions suffered NO ILL effects from touching the trophy. Add the fact that Crosby said he touched it because Mario did in 1991 and 1992 and Messier likely didn't decide to change his routine between 1990 and 1994 and you are looking at a full decade of the winning team touching the trophy.

Leave it to hockey players to create a ridiculous tradition and the blind media to emphasize it EVERY year.

Good job Sid, let's hope the Pens can win and put this nonsensical tradition to rest.