Tarasenko’s newborn son was photographed in Stanley Cup before Blues won

Are you kidding me!? My superstition radar is going into overdrive!

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Tarasenko’s newborn son was photographed in Stanley Cup before Blues won
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In the days after the St. Louis Blues’ Stanley Cup championship win hockey fans were treated to some of the sweetest pictures in recent hockey memory. Newborn Artemi Tarasenko, son of Blues superstar Vladimir Tarasenko, was photographed IN the Stanley Cup, swaddled in a blanket.

Remember this?



Adorable.

But here’s the thing… it turns out that Artemi got to touch the Cup before ANY member of the Blues, including his father. That’s because the Tarasenko’s had the photo taken BEFORE the Blues won the Cup…

Um… excuse me!?

Check out the elder Tarasenko’s comments coming clear about the covert photo session, courtesy of NHL.com:

“The baby in the Cup was the day before Game 6,” Tarasenko said Thursday at the 2019 NHL Player Media Tour.
St. Louis led the best-of-7 series 3-2 and was one win away from its first championship when Tarasenko's wife, Yana, gave birth to Artem, the couple's third child (all sons), on June 7. The following day the Cup visited the maternity ward of the hospital where Yana and Artem were recovering.
With the Blues having a chance to win the Cup in Game 6 at Enterprise Center on June 9, Yana wasn’t sure what to do when she was offered a chance to have a photo taken of Artem in the bowl. The last thing she wanted to do was spoil the Blues’ chances of winning.
“They were going into the rooms visiting newborns and she asked me, ‘Should I take a picture or no?’” Tarasenko said. “I was like, ‘We were last in the League four or five months ago and we either win or lose not because you take the picture.’ So, she took the picture before Game 6 of the baby in the Cup. We were just hoping we were going to win, and we win.”

Oh my God… I don’t know if I could handle that personally. All I’d be thinking about is how I cursed myself, via my newborn son. Thankfully, Tarasenko isn’t big on superstitions and wasn’t phased at all.

“In Game 7, I was not nervous,” Tarasenko said. “You know Game 7 there’s two options; you either lose or win. In Game 6, if you lose, you go (back to Boston), if you win, it’s all nice. But just Game 7 it was just kind of a business mindset. So (coach Craig Berube) said right away, ‘You have one game to win. That’s it.’ So, it was easier.”

Incredible. Well.. all’s well that ends well, I suppose. But… maaaan, talk about having big, brass balls.

Source: NHL.com