TAMPA -- As the Tampa Bay Lightning try to become the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups since 1983, they felt they needed all the good fortune they could muster. So they asked for "the ultimate act of fandom" from the Lightning faithful: lending their personal lucky charms to the team.
Which is quite a request, given how superstitious everyone is during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
They called it "A Call To Charms." The Lightning collected everything from jewelry to dolls to jerseys to a cardboard cutout of Bernie Lomax from the film "Weekend at Bernie's," and had fans place them inside a large transparent lightning bolt.