Grab the trophy and acknowledge the crowd with it, get your picture taken with it, take it back to the room with you, tweet some pictures, tell everyone how nice it is to win. It don't matter. I know Sid is grabbing it if the Pens win the ECF.
To touch or not to touch: The Conference Trophies
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Touch it, grab it, and play with it. it's yours, Do with it as you will.
In all seriousness celebrate, be happy, just be ready for the next round. You may never reach that step again. You will hate to look back and have no evidence of the accomplishment you achieved.
In all seriousness celebrate, be happy, just be ready for the next round. You may never reach that step again. You will hate to look back and have no evidence of the accomplishment you achieved.
NastyNick
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I don't understand why players don't show pride in winning the conference championship. Its not the cup, certainly, but its an accomplishment none the less. It means more than the President's trophy IMO - especially if you squashed the President's Trophy winner to get there. 
The Shovel Penguin
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The Wales Trophy does not like to be touched by some teams, indifferent to some, and rewards being touched by others. The heart wants what it wants. 
Personally I think it's a really beautiful trophy from an aesthetic point of view. I'm a fan of the art deco design.
Personally I think it's a really beautiful trophy from an aesthetic point of view. I'm a fan of the art deco design.
HandshakeLine
A real jerk thing
I don't understand why players don't show pride in winning the conference championship. Its not the cup, certainly, but its an accomplishment none the less. It means more than the President's trophy IMO - especially if you squashed the President's Trophy winner to get there.
Because some jackass didn't do it in the 1970s and now Don Cherry will yell at people if they do anything he doesn't approve of. I mean, barely any of the teams in recent memory who obeyed the tradition actually won anything.
No Fun Shogun
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My perspective is to not touch it. I'm not superstitious at all about that, but I couldn't possibly say that that's the case for my entire team or that it wouldn't be a minor nagging thought in the back of someone's head. Why potentially mess with even a 4th liner's mojo just for a trophy that nobody will remember?
Or, in other words, even if you're not superstitious why risk someone else's superstitions messing with their head?
That being said, I don't care one way or the other if a captain does that or not.
Or, in other words, even if you're not superstitious why risk someone else's superstitions messing with their head?
That being said, I don't care one way or the other if a captain does that or not.
The obvious thing in my opinion would be to go with seniority, but that would mean Neal gets to accept it and my non obvious gut feeling wants Josi to do it.
For the Stanley Cup I don't see how Fisher doesn't come out to do it unless he is completely unable to be there at all. He might even be playing again by then.
The best part was all the media people flipping out about him not being superstitious and "OMG, he touched it!" And then he more or less admitted in the press conference that touching it was his superstition, while Murray low-key laughed at him.
jwhouk
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like all superstitions, it's nonsense, but I do like that it's like your team is rejecting that trophy, like all you care about is the Stanley Cup
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TheStatican
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^ I'm betting that the teams that touched it have ended up winning more championships than those that didn't.
Somebody really needs to compile the stats on that, it might finally end this nonsense.
Somebody really needs to compile the stats on that, it might finally end this nonsense.
HandshakeLine
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There's some on the previous page, and yes, in that sample, touching the trophy has exactly zero bearing on who wins the cup.
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It's easier to say since our captain is 3-0 not touching it. At the same light, Pens captain might potentially go 3-0 touching it. Its all semantics.
NoNecksCurse
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touching or not touching a trophy has zero to do with who wins it all. i find it silly our guys didn't touch it. it's senseless.
TheStatican
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There's some on the previous page, and yes, in that sample, touching the trophy has exactly zero bearing on who wins the cup.
Indeed.
For example just going by the last 11 years the results are;
Didn't touch > 9 wins 9 loses = 0.500%
Touched > 2 wins 2 loses = 0.500%
Pretty sure there's a clear cut trend here. This **** is banana's, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
missingjibbsclub
Bobby Heaters
Mike Fisher is an absolute clown. With that being said, yes I would touch the hell out of that trophy.
Irishguy42
Mr. Preachy
I can't believe people are making this big of a deal about it.
Let them do what they want. They've earned it.
Who are you to say that them being superstitious or not is smart/dumb.
Let them do what they want. They've earned it.
Who are you to say that them being superstitious or not is smart/dumb.
Shoofyou10
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I would have thought that when the Pens both touched and skated with it last year and the Sharks didn't that it would end this silliness and teams would just touch it. But I guess a team new to the finals like Nashville didn't want to do anything to bold.
