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Vegas, Carolina give conference trophies cold shoulder, but someone has to lose the Stanley Cup

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The Stanley Cup Final matchup is set after the Carolina Hurricanes put away the Montreal Canadiens in a dominant Game 5 performance, and they will now take on the Vegas Golden Knights. But we have a problem: neither the Hurricanes nor the Golden Knights touched their respective conference championship trophies. Guys... you can't both win the Cup. This superstition is going to fail for someone. The Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes both steered clear of their conference championship trophies because of a superstition, but it can't work out for both of them. (Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images and James Guillory-Imagn Images) There's a longstanding tradition that you should never touch a conference championship trophy — the Prince of Wales Trophy for the Eastern Conference and the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for the Western Conference — because they're not the ultimate prize. The Stanley Cup is.…

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