Wednesday Night Hockey on ESPN wants to know what you think is the best of the "10 Best" throughout the NHL season. Each week, WNH will assemble its 10 best selections of a particular theme and post them on ESPN.com for users to vote on their favorite.

Tune in to the Feb. 6 broadcast of the N.Y. Rangers at Detriot Red Wings (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) to watch highlights of the 10 best NHL traditions.

	Ray Bourque's playoff goatee was a thing of the past two days after he won the Stanley Cup.

During the game, ESPN's hockey experts will pick their favorite and compare their choices with how ESPN.com users voted.

Chicago Stadium's
pipe organ
From the time in opened in the late-1920's until its closing in 1994, perhaps the most outstanding feature of Chicago Stadium was its massive pipe organ. The organ produced booming sounds whether it was for the playing of the National Anthem or rallying the Blackhawk faithful to its feet. While the organ couldn't be moved to the United Center, sounds from it were recorded so they could be programmed into the new building's sound system.

Kate Smith's "God Bless America" in Philadelphia
Roger Doucet's rendition of "O Canada" at the Montreal Forum
The power of song is part of hockey tradition in a pair of the NHL's keynote cities. In Philadelphia, they began playing Kate Smith's famed rendition of "God Bless America" before Flyers games in the late-'60s. The Flyers won the first time it was played and it soon became such a good luck charm that Smith was brought in to perform it live on occasion during the glory years of the 1970s. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Roger Doucet's stirring, part-French, part-English rendition of "O Canada" became part of the Canadiens' fabled mystique and another of the great moments and events in Montreal Forum history.

Throwing hats on the ice for a hat trick
In the early 1940s, Maple Leafs boss Conn Smythe told the team's photographers that if they continued to take picture of empty seats during games, they'd have to buy him a new hat. Inspired by that comment, a local hat deal offered to give any player who scored three goals in a game a new hat free. Thus the hat trick was born. Once the public became aware of the "hat trick", they added their own twist, throwing their hats onto the ice when a player had a three-goal game, a tradition that is still followed in every NHL building (and many others throughout hockey) to this day.

Hockey Night in Canada
Since 1952, fans across the Dominion of Canada have turned their TV dials to Hockey Night In Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Saturday night Game (or games) of the Week. Hockey Night in Canada has brought some of the great moments in the game's history into the living rooms of hockey fans and many of its voices -- such as Foster Hewitt, Ward Cornell, Ron McLean, Bob Cole, and Don Cherry -- have become Canadian institutions, as has Hockey Night in Canada itself.

Tossing octopus on the ice in Detroit
Before a Red Wings playoff game at the old Olympia Stadium in 1950, a fan threw an octopus on to the ice. The eight tentacles of the octopus were intended to represent the eight wins it then took to win the Stanley Cup. The Wings claimed the Cup that season and the octopus soon became a Detroit postseason staple. In fact, it has not been uncommon for multiple octopi to be flung onto the ice prior to a game.

The Stanley Cup parade around the ice
Long ago, when a team won the Stanley Cup, the team's captain was simply given the Cup after a brief ceremony by the league president. But as time went on, the joy of winning Lord Stanley's trophy led to a more celebratory reaction by the players on the winning side, eventually evolving into a team victory lap where the captain, soon followed by the rest of his squad, make their way around the perimeter of the rink, each taking their turn holding the prized Cup aloft in triumph.

Playoff beards
Among the sights and sounds that accompany the Stanley Cup playoffs is the playoff beard. A superstition that first took hold in the late-'70's and early-80's, most players don't shave during the postseason until their team is elminated. While players whose teams don't advance beyond the first round end up with little more than peach fuzz, a Cup finalist will often feature a full beard or, at the very least, a healthy goatee.

Handshake line following a playoff series
It has been a staple of playoff hockey for as long as anyone can remember. No matter if a series is a tense seven-game thriller or a one-sided sweep, no matter if the series was one of finesse or physicality, at the end of each Stanley Cup layoff series, the players line up at each end of the ice then commence with a procession of handshakes, a sign of respect, sportsmanship, and acknowledgement of a series well played.

Tapping of a goalie's pads
The goalie. The NHL's last line of defense. A good goalie can carry a team far, and to that end,before the start of a game, and in case, before the start of each period, a teammate or teammates will tap their netminders on their goalie pads as a way of a wishing him good luck and a good effort in that night's game.

Three stars of the game
In 1936, a radio show called The Hot Stove League began naming the three stars of the game for each hockey game it broadcast as part of helping the show's sponsor, Imperial Oil, promote one of its brands of gasoline. The practice would eventually catch on around the league and today, each contest played is followed by the announcement of the game's three stars.