It's the last day of the regular season, and Just Wide seeks participants in the third annual S.C.H.L.U.B.B. (Stanley Cup HairabaLoo: Unshaven Beard Bowl)!
S.C.H.L.U.B.B.ers will be expected to forgo the razor as long as their team of choice remains in championship contention. You'll need to email us a digital photograph of your clean-shaven kisser before the first round of the playoffs, and updated photos at the end of each subsequent round.
To win hockey's holy grail, you need hot goaltending, depth, some luck, and a cadre of enthusiastic fans who are zealous enough to participate in a bizarre, superstitious ritual like this one, even if it means spending the spring behind an (even more) unattractive grill (than usual)! Have you that which it takes?
Interested female participants are encouraged to come up with their own weird way to participate, though we can't imagine what it'd be. Our high school gym coach didn't really go into detail about your hygienic rituals.
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS
MATTHEW
This is me, fresh from my first face-scraping in two weeks. It'll be my last, too, until the Red Wings hoist the Stanley Cup! Or, more probably, until my wedding at the end of the month. I know, I know, where's my dedication? Well, marriage is about compromise, or so I hear.
DAVE BUG
Here's Dave, a repeat S.C.H.L.U.B.B.er. With his hometown Blues out of the playoffs (for the first time in franchise history), he says he'll be sending his beardly mojo to the Nashville Predators. They say it takes all kinds.
JOEL
Here's another Gateway City dweller, Joel. With the Blues getting an early start on the golf season, we had to lean on him to participate. His first response was "I think I'll pass this year. I'm a little heartbroken." After we nagged him enough, he agreed to join in, and is leaning toward the magnificent Red Wings as a Western Conference fave and les Habs in the East.
You too should join the furry fray! Send a pre-playoff picture of your fresh-shorn mug!