![]() Manchester United 4-1 Real Betis: Erik ten Hag gets the response he wanted as Red Devils plant one foot firmly in Europa League quarter-finals These days, a team needs to win 16 games to get their hands on the cup, but the tradition remains in Detroit - so much so that the octopus became a mascot for the team. ![]() Since 1952, fans of the Detroit Red Wings have been tossing octopuses on the ice - with the eight legs of the octopus representing the eight wins a team needed to hoist Lord Stanley's trophy. Nashville is not the only hockey franchise known for tossing aquatic creatures onto the ice. Those charges were eventually dropped and catfish continued hitting the ice throughout the rest of that series. While it dates that far back, the sight of flying catfish became more common in Nashville in the mid-to-late-2010s when the team made a number of runs in the Stanley Cup playoffs.ĭuring the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals, a Nashville fan travelled to Pittsburgh when the team was playing the Penguins and let the fish fly.īut that fan, Jake Waddell was caught by police and charged with disorderly conduct, disrupting a meeting, and possession of an instrument of crime. This sight is not uncommon in Nashville, which has seen catfish flying onto the ice since 1999, according to The Tennessean. ![]() The catfish fell in the left circle during play, missing two players who were skating nearby
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