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.
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.
Serious question because I'm not 100% certain and kind of curious, if Nashville wins tonight, which of the alternate captains goes to accept the trophy, or do all of them? Same question for the Stanley Cup, if Nashville wins, and Fisher is still out. I mean, you could have all 3 of them accept the Conference Championship trophy, but how are you going to have 3 alternate captains hoist the Cup?
Crosby touching the trophy is pretty cool
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.
^ 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.
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?
There's some on the previous page, and yes, in that sample, touching the trophy has exactly zero bearing on who wins the cup.
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.