the wings are a great classy team im for sure renewing my season tickets. and they are a kickass hockey team. and for anyone who thinks thats a stupid tradition look up the history of the octopus.
Its a tradition. It started way before most of the teams around today were even thought of. If the NHL has nothing better to worry about than twirling octopi, that is not right. I say keep throwing that Octopi and see what the NHL can do then. I'm thinking an NHL arena has more power than one person.
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Detroit is fucking retarded. Their symbol is a red wheel thing with a wing on it. Their mascot is a purple octopus. How in the hell does that make sense? GO PURPLE OCTOPUS! RED WINGS! GAY SHIT. That makes no sense at all. Explain how it does!
Octopus has eight legs which back then it took eight wins in the playoffs to get the cup, the Wings fans would throw the octopus out to celebrate the 8 wins, but of course its different today, but the tradition lives on.
That's not our logo you dumbshit. Our logo is the winged wheel. Detroit is motor city so the wheel symbolizes motown and the wing is part of the Red Wings organization. The symbol is understandable. Our mascot is the octopus because it has eight tentacles and each tentacle symbolizes a playoff game. Originally in the original 6 era it only took eight games to win the cup you dumbshit.
the owner of the redwings used the logo of his old bike gang for the redwings. Detroit is of the original 6 NHL teams and our octopus symbolizes the 8 wins it took to win the stanley cup. It is thrown for good luck.
Wow, okay all the hippies with their "That poor animal!" comments need to settle down and worry about more important things. With that being said, I just want to let Zetty know that I would LOVE to handle his big thick steak. :-P
the tradition was started in the 50's (in detroit obviously) and fans throw octupuses on the ice because back then it took 8 wins to get the stanley cup. octupi or whatever u call them also have 8 legs and so the legs would represent the amount of wins needed to get the cup
Because the NHL is led by pussies who don't want the octupus gunk on the ice. They say its for the players' safety, but somehow they've managed to avoid that for the past 50 years... I dont think the big hockey players are going to be worried about the icky slime on the ice.
I loved it when the octopus was thrown @ Pitts game even after they refused to sell octopi to wings fans! heheheh...
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I love Detroit and I love hockey; however, I am sickened by this display of callous indifference to the life of the animal. Can't you have fun without someone having to lose their sacred spark of life? Such a classless abuse of our power, and such a waste.
What, no comments about the poor animals whose crispy flesh the Wings were consuming? You sick, hypocritical veg, how many living, feeling fruits and vegetables have you killed in your lifetime hmmmm? Or maybe you're not even a vegetarian which makes you an even bigger hypocrite. Hey, unless the invertebrates were tortured before they were processed I've got no problem with it. Last I checked they weren't on the endangered species list. Lighten up for Pete's sake.
the octopus is dead you idiot!!! it is was alive, then you have a point, but it is dead. empathy? so you want a little funeral after all the animals die in the world?
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A living being had his/her sacred spark of life extinguished, just to become trash. If this doesn't bother you in the least, then it's pointless for me to even talk to you.
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You're dumb, jbinsand. There's a difference between respecting the animal while eating it, and making a mockery of the animal. It's total disrespect. Maybe one day you'll get that through your thick head, but you've probably got too much estrogen circulating through the blood that goes there due to all the screwed up hormones in the meat you eat, which your attitude reveals.
I agree with you. The aspca or what ever association should step in and make this illegal. Poor octopus. I know its dead but its stil wrong. How would you like your dead body thrown on the ice for sport. Wrong.
LMFAO Get a life dude it's a DEAD OCTOPUS, seriously. How you try to relate this to my dating life is retarded, but I guess that's the logic that animal pansies use.
What lesson? It's dead and probably was always dead (you never know), it's going to be fed to other animals afterwards, so who really cares. You're not going to stop it and Al Sobotka sure as hell isn't going to listen to the NHL about it. So just stop.
you sound like an ass. We never killed the damn octopi. We buy them when THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD. It's a tradition. They die anyway even if we don't buy them the butcher shop will still sell them.
They should throw Bettman in the Detroit River for such a stupid decision. Bettman wants to brings fans in but yet the decisions he makes drives them away.
Its tradition!!!! look at it this way, the octopus's body is like a sacrificial gift to the hockey gods. and its not like fisherman go out i the waters killing these thing just to throw them on ice, they are bought from the market and after their thrown, they are thrown in the river for fish to eat (which is respect to nature)
tehSnid, Who's the real pansy talking about fun being ruined? If it was really fun, you wouldn't be questioning it and other people wouldn't be able to push your buttons, R-tard.
Bettman has nothing better to worry about then throwing octopi on the ice? Really? He is the comissioner of the entire league and he has a problem with one team's fans throwing octopi?
i'm wondering whether the octopuses tend to be dead by the time they reach the ice.
coventrygardens 1 year ago
@coventrygardens they are, bought from a local fish market usually
Chemguy91 10 months ago
@Chemguy91 thanks. then i assume that they are dead before they leave the market.
coventrygardens 10 months ago
The hell can't you throw an artificial octopus if you're soooo keen on it being just symbolic?
Dragonkrux 1 year ago
the wings are a great classy team im for sure renewing my season tickets. and they are a kickass hockey team. and for anyone who thinks thats a stupid tradition look up the history of the octopus.
armenianply 1 year ago
@armenianply I know the history. It doesn't make it any better.
Dragonkrux 1 year ago
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redwings can take their octupus and shove it up their asses.
BillSteer99 1 year ago
@BillSteer99 Probably coming from a Pittsburgh fan.
giantfickle2 9 months ago
So thats why i dont see him twirling that octapus anymore! I use to love seein it happen. What a buncha bullshittt! TWIRL THE PUS!
EastSideLetzRide315 1 year ago
tht last one was big as shit
phillykid989 2 years ago
r those octipie sleeping? i don't like seeing an animal that can barely speak twirled around like it's some kind of spinner thing
eyshaney 2 years ago
Are they sleeping? Uh, no. They're dead.
And It's an octopus, it can't speak AT ALL, not just barely.
What are you like 11?
Hockeyevan9992 2 years ago 5
did it die of old age?
eyshaney 2 years ago
Nah, heroin addiction.
OD'd about a month ago.
Hockeyevan9992 2 years ago 7
lmfaoo
22Kmart30 2 years ago
like a true rock star. that octipie is my idol
eyshaney 2 years ago
Best comment i have seen in a long time :D
franticdisembowlment 2 years ago
why on earth would they take out such a great tradition??
qiranwang 2 years ago 5
he still does. he cant not do it.
beckabluesband 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure he's still twirling those octopi :D
tomp714 2 years ago
WTF?!?!?
lgman83 2 years ago
go wings!
gunsNposers17 2 years ago 7
so crap twirling the octopus is great! GO WINGS!
ffscantfindausername 2 years ago
i honestly cant believe you guys made a debate over a simple video like this..
but anyway i love the wings!
Go Red Wings!!!!
TheodoreIsMyMunk 2 years ago 2
If owned the WIngs, Id pay his $10,000 fine every time and do it with a smile.
magich8ball 2 years ago 6
you would do it for 1 season maximum...and then go bankrupt lol
Sergei91 2 years ago
Illitch is a billionaire....atleast take all that money he makes from the "HOT-N-READY"s and pay off fag boy beckmans fine
ocdrumz182 2 years ago
FUCK YOU BETTMAN
gregory06 2 years ago 7
Fuck you bettman let the man do what he wants. what harm is he doing. god grow a pair and fucking leave
sobefunny 2 years ago 6
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i dont like bettman but think u are twirling a dead animal
aroomadoomie 2 years ago
fuck you bettman, this is tradition in detroit
go back to the NBA,moron
SlotShot87 2 years ago 11
Piss on Gary Bettman. He is a loser. Worst commissioner in the history of sports.
scottmbolt 3 years ago 10
this is absoluetly awful we need to be able to twirl tho octopus!!!!!!!!!!!!!
angelhorse777 3 years ago 3
i want a barbecue
andrewcdouglas39 3 years ago
Its a tradition. It started way before most of the teams around today were even thought of. If the NHL has nothing better to worry about than twirling octopi, that is not right. I say keep throwing that Octopi and see what the NHL can do then. I'm thinking an NHL arena has more power than one person.
GO WINGS
redwingsgirl13 3 years ago 4
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Detroit is fucking retarded. Their symbol is a red wheel thing with a wing on it. Their mascot is a purple octopus. How in the hell does that make sense? GO PURPLE OCTOPUS! RED WINGS! GAY SHIT. That makes no sense at all. Explain how it does!
leadmaster3000 3 years ago
Octopus has eight legs which back then it took eight wins in the playoffs to get the cup, the Wings fans would throw the octopus out to celebrate the 8 wins, but of course its different today, but the tradition lives on.
striker300southpaw 3 years ago
Ok, well why isn't it red at least?
leadmaster3000 3 years ago
It's not our mascot it symbolizes the playoffs asshole.
DetIzRed 3 years ago
That's not our logo you dumbshit. Our logo is the winged wheel. Detroit is motor city so the wheel symbolizes motown and the wing is part of the Red Wings organization. The symbol is understandable. Our mascot is the octopus because it has eight tentacles and each tentacle symbolizes a playoff game. Originally in the original 6 era it only took eight games to win the cup you dumbshit.
DetIzRed 3 years ago
Alright dude. My bad. I just got pissed because detroit won the cup. Let's just forget it.
leadmaster3000 3 years ago
the owner of the redwings used the logo of his old bike gang for the redwings. Detroit is of the original 6 NHL teams and our octopus symbolizes the 8 wins it took to win the stanley cup. It is thrown for good luck.
iissmrt1 3 years ago
Wow, okay all the hippies with their "That poor animal!" comments need to settle down and worry about more important things. With that being said, I just want to let Zetty know that I would LOVE to handle his big thick steak. :-P
PatriciaErin 3 years ago
Agreed.
slaurenbg 1 year ago
i still dont know why they throw and octopus in the rink...could someone explain that to me lol
edmontonoilersfan88 3 years ago
the tradition was started in the 50's (in detroit obviously) and fans throw octupuses on the ice because back then it took 8 wins to get the stanley cup. octupi or whatever u call them also have 8 legs and so the legs would represent the amount of wins needed to get the cup
Foltz22 3 years ago 2
this also then became our mascot for a short while. It still represents the Red Wings
Oldscooltennis27 3 years ago
yeah i went to game 2 redwings/pens and saw the octopus mascot lol but noone threw an octopus i was looking forward to that haha
edmontonoilersfan88 3 years ago
Because the NHL is led by pussies who don't want the octupus gunk on the ice. They say its for the players' safety, but somehow they've managed to avoid that for the past 50 years... I dont think the big hockey players are going to be worried about the icky slime on the ice.
I loved it when the octopus was thrown @ Pitts game even after they refused to sell octopi to wings fans! heheheh...
WhutsHerFace 3 years ago 3
lol hell ya
iissmrt1 3 years ago 2
A guy threw it, got thrown out of the arena, put on a Wings jersey, and used another ticket he bought, got back in and watched the game!
letsgoredwings19 3 years ago 25
I heard about that! I am so very proud of him! xD
BornConfusing 3 years ago
the dumb hillbilly nashville predators fans threw out a catfish in response to the octopus
sttrogdor93 3 years ago 2
octopus owns catfish
iissmrt1 3 years ago
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I love Detroit and I love hockey; however, I am sickened by this display of callous indifference to the life of the animal. Can't you have fun without someone having to lose their sacred spark of life? Such a classless abuse of our power, and such a waste.
animalliberation0961 3 years ago
What, no comments about the poor animals whose crispy flesh the Wings were consuming? You sick, hypocritical veg, how many living, feeling fruits and vegetables have you killed in your lifetime hmmmm? Or maybe you're not even a vegetarian which makes you an even bigger hypocrite. Hey, unless the invertebrates were tortured before they were processed I've got no problem with it. Last I checked they weren't on the endangered species list. Lighten up for Pete's sake.
jbinsand 3 years ago 4
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Hey asshole, what if it was you?
animalliberation0961 3 years ago
Was that response supposed to make ANY sense at all? Sheeeesh!
jbinsand 3 years ago
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Ever heard of empathy? How about common decency? Guess these characteristics wouldn't make sense to someone like you.
animalliberation0961 3 years ago
the octopus is dead you idiot!!! it is was alive, then you have a point, but it is dead. empathy? so you want a little funeral after all the animals die in the world?
MichiganGirl1440 3 years ago 3
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A living being had his/her sacred spark of life extinguished, just to become trash. If this doesn't bother you in the least, then it's pointless for me to even talk to you.
animalliberation0961 3 years ago
It doesn't become trash. They dump the octopus's into the Detroit River for the fish to eat.
fixxer746 3 years ago
It's a fucking tradition we're not doing anything you assholes LEAVE US ALONE!
DetIzRed 3 years ago
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You're dumb, jbinsand. There's a difference between respecting the animal while eating it, and making a mockery of the animal. It's total disrespect. Maybe one day you'll get that through your thick head, but you've probably got too much estrogen circulating through the blood that goes there due to all the screwed up hormones in the meat you eat, which your attitude reveals.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
WOW, you really do care about the issues of society, that society doesn't and won't ever care about! Go cry in your sleep, sissy ass.
tehSnid 3 years ago 3
I agree with you. The aspca or what ever association should step in and make this illegal. Poor octopus. I know its dead but its stil wrong. How would you like your dead body thrown on the ice for sport. Wrong.
Karyn9902 3 years ago
there is a difference between people and octopi, get over it.
Jay333 3 years ago
Who gives a FUCK, it's a dead octopus. Shut the fuck up pansy.
tehSnid 3 years ago 3
What a winner. You must have the most gorgeous, caring girlfriend ever.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
LMFAO Get a life dude it's a DEAD OCTOPUS, seriously. How you try to relate this to my dating life is retarded, but I guess that's the logic that animal pansies use.
tehSnid 3 years ago 4
Woah. You're so cool for not caring about the octopus! LMAO.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
You're fucking retarded dude, just stop talking and trying to revert the situation because your sissy ass got owned with reasoning.
tehSnid 3 years ago
Look, Boy. I'm trying to teach you a lesson. Listen damnit.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
What lesson? It's dead and probably was always dead (you never know), it's going to be fed to other animals afterwards, so who really cares. You're not going to stop it and Al Sobotka sure as hell isn't going to listen to the NHL about it. So just stop.
tehSnid 3 years ago 3
you sound like an ass. We never killed the damn octopi. We buy them when THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD. It's a tradition. They die anyway even if we don't buy them the butcher shop will still sell them.
DetIzRed 3 years ago 3
When did I say that you killed them? It's just a waste. If they're already dead, then they should be eaten. It's a simple thing called respect.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
haha. No one in Detroit eats the octopus. you throw it on the ice. its a tradition. its never gunna stop. live with it.
redwingsgirl13 3 years ago 3
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I live with it. It's stupid. I live with stupid idiots all around. You're one of them.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
Goto greektown they actualy do eat octopus. The opposing teams are little cry babies because Al Sabotka threw the octopus behind their bench.
yorgo69 3 years ago
After they're thrown onto the ice, they are thrown into the Detroit River, to be eaten by fish
ddcpenske 3 years ago
LOL. Fish in a river in Detroit.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
They should throw Bettman in the Detroit River for such a stupid decision. Bettman wants to brings fans in but yet the decisions he makes drives them away.
twfchamp02 2 years ago 35
Its tradition!!!! look at it this way, the octopus's body is like a sacrificial gift to the hockey gods. and its not like fisherman go out i the waters killing these thing just to throw them on ice, they are bought from the market and after their thrown, they are thrown in the river for fish to eat (which is respect to nature)
striker300southpaw 3 years ago 4
dude u misspelled in
iissmrt1 3 years ago
Screw you animal protest/activist, it's people like you who ruin fun cause of little bitch rants.
tehSnid 3 years ago 3
tehSnid, Who's the real pansy talking about fun being ruined? If it was really fun, you wouldn't be questioning it and other people wouldn't be able to push your buttons, R-tard.
BayviewFinch 3 years ago
You're a retard, supporting gay animal rights when they're already dead, fuck off pansy.
tehSnid 3 years ago
Random, I know, but shouldn't it be "twirl that octopus" or twirl those octopi"?
ElvishPrinceling 3 years ago
why do they do that
nfl20 3 years ago
o plz its dead, i am pretty sure that it dosen't mind and its been a tradition for years.
Jay333 3 years ago 6
What the hell? No octopus twirling?
FUCK!
PTHoeksema 3 years ago
C'mon NHL! Don't be ridiculous!
sccrdd483 3 years ago 2
AHHA great video! Be careful Mr. Bettman you might burn yer ass hair on the BBQ. Let's Go!1 RED WINGS!!
SUPERBURRITO 3 years ago 4
lmao! yeah buttman you might want to watch yourself, god I hate him!
pollardcat15 3 years ago 3
Bettman has nothing better to worry about then throwing octopi on the ice? Really? He is the comissioner of the entire league and he has a problem with one team's fans throwing octopi?
Is that really necessary?
GO WINGS!!
redwingsgirl13 3 years ago 6
Agree, he should go back to the NBA
SlotShot87 2 years ago 5