Three things I've learned in this video: 1.) Shannon's so wholesome, even his superstitions boil down to "don't be a dick" 2.) I can't be the only one now waiting for Shannon to grow a "badass hockey grandpa" playoff beard 3.) I am absolutely stealing that Shipping Up To Boston tradition

"Nah no superstitions..." :D *Makes video of good progress of SJ Sharks, hour later Quinn gets fired* You're the best as always Shannon, never change!

"I'm not superstitious. I'm a little stitious." - Michael Scott

I remember in 2014 when the Sharks went up 3-0 I said out loud “we won the series”. I have never gloated ever again about a series until the clock hits 0 and the wins are 4.

If they score while I'm out of the room, I cannot return to the room.

During the 2010 gold medal game, I noticed that Canada played better the closer I was to the tv (in hindsight the causality was clearly the reverse lol). So to give them momentum boosts, I would back up and quickly walk towards the television - the timing and speed had to be precise. And I just paced like that for a good chunk of the game. You're welcome Canada.

My personal superstition is when my team is in the playoffs, I wear the appropriate jersey for where they’re at. Away jersey when they’re away and home jersey when they’re at home. Tends to have a good record when I’m watching.

“I’m not a superstitious person… here is a 17 minute video explaining all my superstitions.” Love it!

I have a bad feeling gambling will ruin our fave sports over time......I love your sweaters my dude.

Anytime a game is on ESPN I always mute it and listen to the radio feed.

One of my favorite memories is lying on my bedroom floor listening to the Hawks, and the commentator screaming Tony Esposito's name with every incredible save. And it was even better when he made saves against his brother.

My superstition is that if I make the Leafs my team, they will never win the cup again. I have been a Leafs fan since 1968.

My mom has a superstition when LSU is playing Bama in cfb. Which is when the game is on, she hides in her bedroom and comes out during commercials. It is only for this one game, but she claims, "She is doing her part to help the Tigers win!"

I remember the one time i talked about the following round and playoff strategy about the next team during a round 1 game. I was talking to my mom, and it was a commercial break, but we started talking during game play around the 8-minute mark. I'm a Knights fan, and it was game 7 against the San Jose Sharks in 2019. Never again.

When Detroit was on the six game win streak, my brother bought me a Wings shirt. I started wearing it during games, and it was exactly when they went on that 7 game skid. After that, I stopped wearing it on game days lmao

I think the "no gloating" is just a good way to go about life :)

I'm not superstitious either. Except in 2010, watching my Blackhawks. I had my 1992 CCM Center Ice jersey on. They were playing awful and getting beat. I took it off. They played a bit better. But they were still losing. My ex kept the house temperature cold enough to keep an ice rink. So I put on a Bears hoodie. They won. I wore the Bears hoodie throughout the playoffs and they won the cup. So it's gotta be that, right? Also, no gloating. 100%.

Its true, the Wings collapse in March is my fault for wearing my wings hat.

#5 is universal for any hockey fan worth their salt. Great list THG I never knew about #1 sweater on game day.

The trick to gambling is: ALWAYS bet against your own team. If they lose, you win. If they win, it's like you paid for them to win.

Hats off for refusing to advertise gambling on your channel THG!!!!!!!!

My uncle would take my dad when he was a kid to Kings games when they played at the Forum. They are true die hards. When the Kings won their first Stanley Cup in 2012 ending the 45 year drought, it was one of the only times I saw my dad cry in front of me. They both couldn’t believe it finally happened. Fast forward when the Kings were on their run 2014, my uncle couldn’t watch any of the playoff games because he was so nervous. He said only to call him if they won. Then he would watch the recording after. My uncle would pass away a year later. I’m glad he got to see two Stanley Cups before he passed because he was truly one of those long suffering Kings fans who stuck with the team from the very beginning in the early 70s. 👑

Remember me and my kids magic 8 ball winning the CBJ series against Tampa. Before every game Id ask if CBJ would win. All 4 games it said yes or outllook is good. Then for the next series I found out that Magic 8 ball was actually a Boston fan and i never saw that thing again.

My superstition is that I’m probably never going to a playoff game again. Not because I can’t afford it, it’s because every single playoff game I’ve been to after a specific year has been a loss. The last playoff win I witnessed in person? Game 6 of the 2012 Finals.

I love how everyone’s sharing their superstitions! I always knock on wood when my team is leading in a game and the commentators say something positive about them 😅

I love this Hockey Guy, content like no other

I have similar view on gambling and I just don't do it unless I feel like losing. I also have the number ten sort of, I feel like if I watch my favourite team play they are more likely to lose. Superstitions are fun when you know they are not real, but you feel them :D Also you are my favourite NHL channel. Thank you very much

A couple of my superstitions, these apply to football, basketball, and baseball in addition to hockey: 1. I don’t celebrate a win until the clock hits 0:00 or the series is over. 2. I never gamble in favor of my team, but I will gamble against them because it’s a win-win, or I will do the total score. 3. I never overlook a team (being a fan of UNC football will do that to you)

I remember growing up the Vancouver Canucks had the old symbol of an outline of a green hockey rink with a stick outline in the middle.

For #7 I took that as making fun of a player then my team goes and loses to them after that player scores or stops a score. For #10 I get that, when I listen to the radio I feel like I am more "into" the game because the announcers are more descriptive, I need to pay closer attention, and I have the 'ice rink of the mind' going, as I imagine the players on the ice. Great vid Shannon!

Shannon will you make a video about Lindy in Buffalo? curious to hear your in depth thoughts

I’m the complete opposite on the jersey thing lol jerseys ONLY on game days

At the beginning of this season I was showing my girlfriend one of my jerseys which happens to be a Henrik Sedin Jersey. My favorite team is the Oilers but I don't have an Oilers Jersey so I decided to put on the Sedin Jersey just to have some fun on the first day of the season. The Canucks ended up beating Edmonton with no mercy, the Canucks went on a run and became the best team in the pacific, and the Oilers ended up being tied for last place in the league. I told myself that I would never again wear a jersey for a team that the Oilers are playing against that night. I stayed consistent and then the Oilers ended up coming back to make the playoffs again.

im all on board the badass playoff grampa vibes for a beard lol

100% agree with the no jersey on game day. I will only wear a jersey if I'm attending the game in person. Otherwise, I will not even wear a shirt of the team until they win, then I'll throw on the jersey until I go to bed. Weird, but it's how I've always been.

I remember my dad would watch Canucks games on the tv with the radio play by play when I was a kid in the 90s

Shannon? Hellebuyck’s here. Get me a new magnet for tomorrow’s game. I need to shake things up.

Idea: Ever think of only wearing jerseys of your favorite three teams for the first month of next season during your videos? The entire season?

I appreciate you looking out for the rest of us fans with the magnets haha Good looking out

You really should grow a beard Shannen! 😄😅👍👍👍

I love that I have the complete opposite for the first one. I wore a knights jersey for playoff games 1&2, but not 3&4 and look where we are......

Fun video Shannon, I'll be 60 soon and haven't been able to play in ten yrs but I still have my gear and no one touches my game stick, lol. Watching, well I've made it clear I find the game so distracting (adds) that I rarely watch and when I do I just end up listening to it in the back ground so no superstitions there. Besides I'm a Blackhawk fan ugg.

I remember the Playoff Massacre in Quebec vs the Habs!

I was a big Steelers fan growing up (still are today). I would never watch their playoff games live only after the fact. Still do that with the Super Bowl today..

Not buying merch during the season is a big one. All my merchandise buying has to be done in the offseason

Your videos have become a crucial part of my superstitions. I have to listen to your coverage of the playoffs, it would feel like heresy not to.

1:21 right off the bat I agree. I like to wear my sweater after a hard earn win

Being old, many of my hockey & other sports memories are from listening on the radio. Every Sunday night was Rangers on WNEW with Marv Albert & Sal "Red Light" Messina back in the 70s. I remember 1975 listening to game 3, Islanders vs. Rangers, the Rangers tie the game, go into OT. I used to listen down in a room in the basement and I run upstairs to get stuff to eat during the OT & JP Parise scores 12 seconds in. That was a Friday night, and I was tuned in to the Islander broadcast on WMCA instead of the Rangers. It was crazy. Another, not hockey, was listening to the Mets clinch the NL East division back in 1969. I was not a Mets fan and was only 8 years old, but it sticks out all these years later. Funny, I have no football memories from radio. You got to watch football or it's nothing, but baseball & hockey are great on the radio. That was a whole lot of my childhood.

Nice Video Shannon. I don't use the term 'We' when talking about the teams I follow. And this is because, 'I'm not playing.' So 'We' didn't score the goal.

#5 reminds me of "Sh*t hockey players dont say" when that goalie is like "can everyone please mention shut, out, shutout or any variation of that phrase please , before our game" !

That's funny, I ALWAYS wear jersey on game day, and color has to match (unless they are wearing a special one I don't have)

As an American, I sing along to O Canada and even get it stuck in my head sometimes. Glad it goes both ways 😅

I refuse to watch VGK games downstairs on the Livingroom tv. They always lose when i watch there vs at my pc

If cannucks make the second round you have to start the playoff beard pls

Canucks fan here, I shaved on the morning of game 1 and it seemed to work out but I won’t shave again until it’s all over

I have a constant in sports; "It ain't over until the final siren." And Darryl Reaugh is blissfully unaware of his jinxing powers, I'm sure Stars fans can attest.

Another big one I hear alot is that when your team is in the playoffs, NEVER mention the (Name of Championship Trophy) until we have it in our hands. It's a Jinx!

TV volume. Number should end with 0. Even if uncomfortable to listen.

I had my hockey superstitions too. I only wore jerseys on the day after a WIN. I hate or hated seeing people on TV morning shows wearing jerseys, especially on a day of a ROAD GAME!! REALLY?!? My biggest hockey superstition was music. Having lived in Calgary for the last 30+ years, I reached a point where I wished radio stations would play Flames related songs when they advanced to the second round. Obviously, with the exceptions of 2004, 2015, and 2022, it backfired BIG TIME!! And to whatever radio station created 'In Da Dome', BURN THE TAPE, PLEASE!?!?! I have played music for Junior Hockey teams in the Calgary area and I had reached a point where I did NOT change the team's entrance music or goal songs once playoffs arrived. One year I caved to the team's demands and they were eliminated in the first round after dominating the regular season.

The islanders Lighthouse logo is base off of the Montauk Point Lighthouse

When the Bills get a winning streak going i keep wearing the same jersey. This year it was red Allen

It’s also just a playoff thing for me, and it changes. But in 2019, from the beginning of the playoffs (or maybe just a bit before), my rule was that on non game days, I had to wear a Blues shirt. On game days, it had to be a Blues jersey. I was not allowed to repeat anything until I got through them all. Giveaway jerseys, warm ups or ones that were from alumni camps all counted, as long as they had a Bluenote. Even the logo they had on the yellow jerseys counted, as I had one of those from the 2017 WC alumni game. I also got way into the numbers that kept popping up in the playoffs for them. I wasn’t surprised when they lost game 6 of the final, because it made them 6-7 in home games with series lengths of 6-7-6-7. Also known as the year the Blues joined the league.

The radio thing, you might be onto something there honestly

THIS IS GREAT!

I'll bet you could do a good Jack Benny impression.

My main ones are to touch the Leafs lanyard hanging in my car, wear the same shirt in the whole series, and listen to Subdivisions from Rush before a Leafs playoff game.

When I lived in Vancouver, I found the opposite about Jerseys on Gameday. Literally, everyone wears the Canucks jersey or any sort of Canucks gear on gameday, and no one wears it when it's not gameday. If you wear it when it's not gameday, people come up to you and ask if it's a gameday. lol. Now that I live in Winnipeg , they come up to you and talk about how good/bad the team/player is doing and who needs to leave town etc. lol

glad im not the only one with the "gambling is a guaranteed loss" curse. I spent about 200$ in 2023 (only 50 a month) to try and gamble, every single game i bet on the avs either lost or the players i bet on under-performed that game. i bet on every game for awhile and it was a losing streak against bad teams. I actively tried to bet on the avs against bad teams and they would lose those games, it drove me insane.

I share quite a few that are the same or similar. Exception is the jersey. I literally do the opposite and typically wear the home, home alternate or away jersey depending on where they’re playing. Makes the hockey geek in me feel like part of the team, lol

I never wear the jersey of the team I cheer the day they play. I get around it by wearing team colors.

I noticed the tendency that whatever team I'm currently cheering on always wins whenever I don't watch them. However when I do watch them they lose.

I shaved before the game on Tuesday, felt bad, but I had to.

Hockey guy looking like a member of the Swiss guard...

14:50 okay good it's not just me who has a heart attack everytime the other team gets a shot on goal

I never even think the word shut out.

As a jackets fan I have been forced to adopt #3. I hope to drop it soon.

Every NHL game I have attended in person so far, the home team loses. I might be cursed.

because of you im going to start wearing my jersey on game day

For me I wear jerseys on game days but if Vancouver loses and the player jersey i wear doesn't get a point I change to a different player jersey that I have next game, but if they win I keep wearing the same jersey

Thanks Shannon good video. Remember watching games with radio on and sound from TV turned off as a superstition. Betting on your team is a sad situation all around and don't recommend it . Totally agree on the Betting ads that fill the airwaves ,it turns me off the Betting side more than encouraging me to bet. I do still play bclc on occasion and I know when I do that the $2 is gone I bet. I get my entertainment from it and that's it.

oh myy.. poor dallas, the shannon curse is upon thee!

When my flames are in the playoffs (hasn’t happened in a while) I wear my jersey all run long even if they’re not playing

There was a time when I used to go to football/soccer games and would not wear any black

On a different note, this season, the Avalanche have scored within 5 minutes of me turning on the audio broadcast at a ridiculously high consistency (I don’t get to watch or listen as often as I’d like so we aren’t talking an 82+ game sample size). I’ve probably been able to tune in and listen to 40 games, and in at least 25 of them they have scored within 5 minutes. I started doing it “strategically” and my intent for it to work out or not didn’t seem to affect the outcome 🤷🏼‍♂️ happened with the Zach Parise goal last night (game 2 first round) so it’s still a thing currently happening lol

during playoffs i bet against my favorite teams. I'm either happy my team won or that i made a little money.

It's only weird is it doesn't work

Slim pickings for me as a Sens fan when it comes to playoff superstitions, but in 2017 I had to shoot on my net in the driveway right before every game and could not cut my hair. It worked pretty well but I haven't been able to test them out ever since

When ever I wear my Terry sawchuk jersey red wings goalies do really well

During the playoffs, if my team wins when I don't watch or listen, then lose when I do, I can't watch anymore of that round. Works sometimes 😂

The number of superstitions all us fans have for playoff hockey would be really interesting to study

4:13 did you see the game last night 🤣🤣🤣

No one in my family wore their jerserys and we lost. I made sure for game two everyone was wearing them and we won. “I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious.”

Shannon, maybe you should do a video devoted to your experience of the 2011 finals. I remember that as an extremely emotional series. Rome/Horton hit, Marchand punching Sedin repeatedly for no reason at all. Phew!

as of late, I get scared everytime Ray Ferraro is in Rogers Arena. The Canucks boys seem to struggle everytime he's broadcasting.

Shakespeare’s character “Puck” was a mischief maker.

My clothing superstitions mainly center around baseball. At the beginning of the century, I had a partial season ticket (20 weekend games) for my favorite MLB team. I never wore their cap to the games because that was an automatic loss. I would wear minor league or my college hats and stick with whichever one got a win. As for gambling, that's right out. In grade school, boys would gamble over whether their pennies would match, heads or tails, after flipping them. Pennies were to rare and precious to me back then to essentially give them away to someone else. 60 years later I still find myself squeezing them on occasion.

I wanted Montreals RR for years before it came out and am still shocked it took them so long to do it...But if I wear it during a game its a automatic Loss every time...

The jersey you're wearing reminds me of Richard Brodeur 🥅

Who did u root for during the 2011 finals? As a bruins fan I’m curious…

I used to rub the logo on my Buffalo Sabres jersey to bring them good luck whenever they would go to a shootout...turns out it had the opposite effect 😅