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Playoff beard
A playoff beard is the superstitious practice of male athletes not shaving their beards during the playoffs. Playoff beards were introduced by ice hockey players participating in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and are now a tradition in many sports leagues. Many fans of professional sports teams also grow playoff beards. The player stops shaving when his team enters the playoffs and does not shave until his team is eliminated or wins the Stanley Cup. The tradition was started in the 1980s by the New York Islanders. The tradition is also practiced by nearly all North American hockey leagues, to include high school leagues and the NCAA hockey teams, as well as minor league affiliates.〔 〕 According to some observers, one may trim the beard after a loss in an effort to change the team's luck; Jim Dowd and Roberto Luongo were such practitioners.
==History==
It's not known whether the origins of the practice are purely superstitious. Hall of Famer Denis Potvin says that the Islanders of the 1980s would "play four games in five nights in the first round and it was just something that kind of happened."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Playoff Beard Mystique )〕 The 1980 Islanders included two Swedish players (Stefan Persson and Anders Kallur), so it is possible that tennis champion Björn Borg's custom of not shaving his beard during Wimbledon, which he had been doing for several years by that time, was an influence on the start of the practice in hockey.〔Podnieks, Andrew. ''Hockey Superstitions: From Playoff Beards to Crossed Sticks and Lucky Socks'', McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2010, ISBN 978-0-7710-7108-9, pp. 8-9.〕 Some players have said the beard is both a reminder of team unity and a way to get you thinking about the playoffs from the moment you look in the mirror in the morning.〔 The 2009 Red Wings used the slogan "The beard is back" for the final series of their 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs run. They played the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final that year (won by Pittsburgh) in which most of the players (and the owner of the team, Mario Lemieux) grew beards as well.
In 2009, the Beard-a-thon〔(Beard-a-thon )〕 campaign was launched to encourage fans to grow their own playoff beards for charity. In its first four years, more than 22,000 NHL fans participated in the "Beard-a-thon" and raised over two million dollars for charities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BEARD-A-THON is back: Fans called to grow beard )〕
In June 2015, Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports (who is the U.S. rightsholder of the league), told the ''Chicago Tribune'' that he had been lobbying the NHL to discourage the practice, arguing that it hinders the ability for viewers to recognize players.
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