The Jere Effect Is Still Working
Superstition can very easily get you far in life or drag you down hard. It all depends how you handle it.
The Dallas Stars are running with superstition right now in an effort to find some sort of consistency in their game. But this superstition isn’t necessarily what song they listen to before the game or how they enter the rink itself. This superstition involves how they tie up their skates and specifically with which material they use.
On Friday, November 24, the Stars organization honored longtime Star Jere Lehtinen in a pregame ceremony by retiring his number 26 into the rafters. Lehtinen is a 14-year veteran of the NHL and spent every season with the Dallas Stars organization, making him a Star for life. He had a significant impact on the Stars from 1995-2010, so it’s only right that Dallas rewarded him with the retirement honor.
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After the retirement ceremony, the Dallas Stars took the ice for warmups before their game against the Calgary Flames. Besides wearing Lehtinen’s throwback jersey during the pregame skate, there was something else different about the Dallas uniform. The Stars were wearing bright yellow skate laces.
The laces were a tribute to Lehtinen, who wore them in each game. But this simple tribute to tradition quickly turned into a good luck charm (at least for now).
After defeating the Flames in dramatic fashion that night, the Stars decided to keep their yellow laces intact instead of switching back to the white laces.
And now they are 3-0-0 with the bright yellow stands. Coincidence? We think not.
With the yellow laces, not only are the Stars undefeated, but they have also won two road games and one against a Central Division opponent. It’s obviously because the laces have a powerful effect that allows the Stars to channel their inner Jere on the way to victory.
It’s becoming known as “The Jere Effect” and seems to be legit. Heck, the Dallas Stars Twitter page even changed their profile picture to a pair of yellow laces.
The Dallas Stars are planning to roll with these yellow laces for as long as they continue to “work.” This could just be mere superstition, but if we are talking in one month about how the Stars are on an 18-game win streak, you will know exactly why.
After all, a little superstition never hurt anyone right?