ESPN's hockey analysts were asked to describe the most memorable superstitions they've come across:

Bill Clement

	Bill Clement

I didn't have that many superstitions. I just tried to mess with the guys who did. One guy I played with on both Stanley Cup teams in Philadelphia was Ross Lonsberry. He couldn't stand hockey sticks lying on the floor of the locker room between periods if they were crossed. He would leave the locker room to go get water or go to the bathroom, and I'd put my stick over his. He'd always go ballistic on me. Every second or third game, I'd make sure that -- without him seeing me -- I'd cross our sticks.

Also, when we were leaving the locker room and going out onto the ice, there were players who had to be the last guy out, or the second to last guy out, or the third to last guy out, so I'd always try to jump in line and mess up their order. Then, there were guys who wouldn't change their clothes if we were winning in the playoffs. They would drive most of us crazy with their stench.

Brian Engblom

	Brian Engblom

Some of it was superstition, and some of it may have been just programming. Sometimes there's a fine line between what is superstitious or not. But mine was not to put my jersey on the floor. It started in Montreal, and I carried it through the rest of my career. I always dressed the same way as well, putting things on in the same order -- left skate first, and then the right skate, etc. Sometimes, it would throw you off if some piece of equipment had to be fixed at the last second and you couldn't dress in the same sequence. Also, some coaches would wear a particular suit against a certain team.

Darren Pang

	Darren Pang

I was awful. I found the pressure was just incredible, especially playing at home in Chicago. I would go through morning skate and everything was fine. I'd get back to the house for lunch and take a nap. The minute I woke up from my nap I was so narrow minded, no one would talk to me. When I got to the rink, the guys could tell immediately if I was playing or not. It was left pad on first, left skate on first, left everything on first. Then you tape your sticks the same way, standing in the same place. It gets to the point where you lose your mind with the superstitions. You almost want to lose a game to change things up because it drives you nuts if you forget something.

So I'm ready to go, I go out for warm-ups, come back in the locker room, go to the wash room and proceed to throw my guts up. Every single game. I come back out, the trainer has already put sugar tablets and smelling salts in my stall. I'd take the sugar and crack open the salts, and whew it just rots any brain cell you might have had cooking in there. You're eyes are watering, but you just put on your helmet, grab your gloves and stick and go out and play.

Steve Larmer needed to have like 30 sticks of gum each game. Ray Bourque took his skate laces out after morning skate -- completely out. Then, before the game, he relaced them. The next morning, same thing. Lacing his skates was something he did to calm himself down. He used a pair once. To me, he should have been a goalie.