Connor McDavid shrugs off Stanley Cup superstition with surprising reason
If you're an NHL fan, you know the drill.
If your team wins the Eastern or Western Conference title before heading to the Stanley Cup Finals, your captain is presented with a trophy. In the East, it's the Prince of Wales Trophy. In the West, it's the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl.
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Got it? Good. Because it's what comes next that counts: there's a superstition that you should NOT touch those trophies or it's bad luck before the Stanley Cup Finals. The logic, I think, is that you'd want to touch the trophy that counts over the one that's secondary.
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Connor McDavid ignored that on Thursday night after the Edmonton Oilers took down the Dallas Stars. Other teams have done so at their own peril, but it's been no big deal in recent years, weirdly. Teams out of both the East and West have touched the winning trophy, then gone on to win the other, much bigger (and bigger deal) trophy for hockey immortality.
Oilers fans were worried:
But listen to McDavid, who has been here before: the Oilers DIDN'T touch it last year and lost to the Panthers. So he's just trying to reverse the curse in a way:
This is brilliant logic by McDavid. Real captain-level stuff there. Take a bow, put that trophy in your locker and then get focused for the task ahead. Also, it's superstition, right? Hockey players win games, not touching trophies or not. Got to love it.
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