The two-month marathon of playoff games gives rise to strange and curious phenomena. Like in 1996, when Florida Panthers fans cheered their team all the way to the Stanley Cup Final by littering the ice with plastic rats.
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Panthers fans celebrate the Year of the Rat
From center ice to Red Square, from Wayne Gretzky to Arnold Schwarzenegger, we follow the trail of the Stanley Cup in this collection of photos.
Florida's rat-tossing mania began following media reports that Panthers' forward Scott Melanby had killed a rat in the locker room.
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