I don't usually like gimmicky news stories, but this video on the Detroit Free Press site was kind of cool. For those not familiar with the Detroit hockey tradition, fans throw octupus on the ice before (during and after, sometimes) playoff hockey games. The story is that the eight tentacles of an octupus signified the eight games it used to take to win the Stanley Cup. Now it takes 16 wins, but haven't seen anyone throw two octupi yet. Red Wings play the Penguins tonight at 8 p.m.
I'm taking this video down because it launches automatically and that is annoying many folks.
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This has nothing to do with buying an octopus but it is related to the Free Press. Did you notice that The Journal's business writer linked to a Free Press story in its GM bankruptcy coverage? It was Susan Tompor's Q&A on the fate of retiree pensions.
Is that Booth's new strategy to cover stories with no reporters -- just link to other papers' work?
Fun story from last year's Finals in Pittsburgh:
Detroit fan drives to Pittsburgh, gets in with the octopi, throws it onto the ice, gets thrown out by arena security . . .
. . . switches from a red to a white Wings' jersey, pulls out a SECOND ticket to the game, gets back in, and waves "Hi" to the same security guy after the game as the Wings' are celebrating with the Cup.
Security guy was fuming.
Let's Go Red Wings! #_#_###
I understood the Octopus thing to reflect the Wings being one of the original 8 teams in the NHL. I'm no expert, just heard that along the way.
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