Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
The octopus has eight legs and the 8 is the number of games needed to win a SC trophy back in the days when there was a handful of teams.

Now that the playoff format has changed - I think you need to win 12? - the octupi still represents a successful run at the trophy and people think that tossing an octopus on the ice after a goal is the reason to do so, but it's totally a different meaning.

The ban has been in effect for the SC series in different cities for years!

http://proicehockey.about.com/od/his...it_octopus.htm
The magic number is 16. So one would need two octopuses to toss. Come to Michigan, Richard, and I'll give you lessons on how to toss one . . . . . . I promise it will be fun

Then we could go to Greektown and have some calamari and ouzo.