You’ve heard about hockey fans in Detroit throwing an octopus onto the ice to celebrate a Stanley Cup playoff victory, and more recent imitators such as the puckheads in Nashville, Tennessee, who hurl catfish over the Plexiglas whenever the Predators beat the Red Wings in the postseason.
But what about chickens?
They don’t throw chickens onto the ice at the RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida, where Golden Knights forward Ryan Carpenter skated growing up. Not yet anyway.
Maitland is near Carpenter’s hometown of Oviedo in Seminole County, a long centering pass from Orlando. Besides Carpenter, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles and alligators, Oviedo is mostly known for chickens.