The Nashville Predators, an upstart hockey team in a nontraditional hockey market, go on a run to the Stanley Cup Final. Their Tennessee fans, inspired by the team, throw catfish onto the ice in Game 1 in Pittsburgh.
Penguins fans eat catfish in the streets of Pittsburgh after winning the Stanley Cup
Catfish became the symbol of the Predators’ playoff run.
Antonella Crescimbeni - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It becomes a symbol of their postseason. A rallying fish for an entire city and state falling in love with hockey.
The Predators lose Game 6 and the Stanley Cup Final. You are a Penguins fan. What do you do?
Yep. You go all Gollum on a bloody catfish in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh.
Hockey is incredible and weird and this is why we love it.
