Superstitions are not rare in sports, often time athletes eat the same meal before games or stick to a regimented routine to maintain continuity. Tiger Woods famously only wears red on Sundays, Michael Jordan wore his University of North Carolina college basketball shorts under his Chicago Bulls shorts and slugger Wade Boggs ate chicken before every baseball game.
Unwritten Rules: But there’s one quirky belief in the NHL: that touching the Western Conference Trophy, called the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, will bring bad luck for the team that wins it. The last Western Conference team to win the Stanley Cup, the St. Louis Blues in 2019, did not touch the trophy after the team defeated the San Jose Sharks in six games.
