And so it begins... The Stanley Cup playoffs are here and women all across Canada have a new reason to blanch at the male faces in their lives. As I've said before, the playoff beard is not about hockey per se. No, it's about a man's Cro-Magnon instinct to shag--urm, I mean that in the non-british sense. So, go shave your ugly mug and let your bristles and whiskers take shape over the weeks of playoff hockey to come. If you can, take a before photo of your babyface now and then compare it to the sum total of your hairiness when your favourite team gets bounced from the Stanley Cup. In fact, email me photos of our pre and post-tufted chins and I'll stick it in the photo gallery for the public at large to laugh and point at.