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In the Cup Finals, the Panthers faced the Colorado Avalanche and their fans employed a unique strategy, tossing rat traps when the Avs scored a goal.
The weird tradition lasted only one season as the NHL passed a rule penalizing home teams when their fans threw objects onto the ice. In some Panther fans revived plastic rat tossing when the team wom their first playoff game in 15 years. With that nickname in place, Ottawa fans began tossing hamburgers onto the ice when Hammond made big saves or finished of wins. What is it about tossing weird objects onto the ice that seems to spark hockey teams to playoff success?
In prior to a playoff series between the Oilers and Red Wings a disc jockey in Edmonton convinced fans to counter the Detroit octopus tradition by throwing something uniquely Canadian. At least uniquely from Alberta. In this case the object was prized Alberta Beef. The uncooked tradition worked — Edmonton defeated the Wings in six games and advanced all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.
The Calgary Hitmen are a major junior hockey team in Calgary, Alberta. A few years ago they actually encouraged their fans to throw objects onto the ice when they dispensed teddy bears to everyone in attendance. After the home team scored hundreds of the furry objects littered the ice. They take hockey seriously in Montreal and that means traditions are guarded closely. Montreal fans are famous for being ready to toss hats when a home player scores three games, but on one occasion a fan made a statement of a different nature.
In the late s when the Habs were in the midst of a losing stretch, a fan fired an alarm clock onto the ice, promoting a stoppage of play. The octopus tradition has launched a couple of other object-tossing manias.
Some [ who? During the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as the hype about the Wings' run to the Finals grew, a fan at the Boston Garden threw a lobster onto the ice during a playoff game between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils. Lobster harvests are often identified with the Bruins' home region, the New England States, particularly Maine. During the Stanley Cup Playoffs , fans of the Florida Panthers threw thousands of toy rats on the ice whenever the Panthers scored, instigated by the octopus toss and the story of Scott Mellanby killing a rat in the Panthers' dressing room.
Ten years later, during the opening-round series between the Wings and the Edmonton Oilers , an Edmonton radio host suggested throwing Alberta beef on the ice before the game.
Oilers fans continued throwing steaks, even at away games, resulting in several arrests at the away cities. In the —03 season, the Nashville Predators fans began throwing catfish onto their home ice, in response to the Red Wings tradition.
The first recorded instance occurred on October 26, in a game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Nashville Predators. They're huge, they're heavy, they stink and they leave this slimy trail on the ice.
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