Carolina Hurricanes drop the nation's next great novelty beer cup

Hell yeah, brother: beer skates!

Don't overthink this one. Starting with Game 1, fans at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh can order up a big plastic skate full of beer, Das Boot style!

It's beautiful.

At the risk of sounding like a total simpleton, I like how you can see the beer thanks to the see-through holder, and I bet you that thing makes light domestic draft beers taste at least 30% better.

Plus, we are living in the golden era of putting beer in hockey gear. Two years ago, the Hurricanes - who are like what you'd get if you put Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison together and made them focus on novelty hockey beer vessels - introduced the beer stick, which, as the name implies, is a stick full of beer.

And you already know that the lunatics - a term I use with the utmost respect and admiration - in Buffalo won't get left out of this discussion.