The following year, he and his family attended the Montreal Winter Carnival and witnessed a relatively new sporting craze known as ice hockey. Stanley, like much of the population, became hooked.
Before long, Stanley made his most famous contribution to the sport, buying a silver bowl and gifting it to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.
The trophy alsobecame known as the Stanley Cup in honor of the man who purchased it. In NYC! The StanleyCup checks the view from our room in Timesquare. Way back when the Cup was first donated, Lord Stanley mandated that two trustees must always be appointed to care for the Cup and ensure it was kept in proper condition. The NHL allots each championship team one hundred off-season days with the Cup accompanied by the Keeper, of course to do with it as they wish.
It was the New Jersey Devils who formalized the tradition of giving each player one personal day with the Cup during the off-season. Once successful, they went on their drunken way and forgot all about it—until their teammates realized the next day that the trophy was missing.
The players, eager to celebrate their win, quickly changed the tire and made their way to the party. When the traditional time came for each player to drink champagne from the silver bowl, the Cup was nowhere to be found. The players had left it on the side of the road! They hopped in their car and sped back to the place where they had changed the flat and found the Cup in a snow bank on the side of the road—right where they had left it. After the Colorado Avalanche won the championship, defenseman Sylvain Lefebvre used his personal day with the Cup to have his daughter christened in the top bowl.
Several years later, the Canadiens forgot it on the side of the road. They had gotten a flat tire and took the Cup out of the car to change the tire. This would not have been memorable had they not forgotten the Cup on the side of the road. The team realized it was missing and had to go back and get it. Luckily for them, the Cup was sitting on a snow drift right where they left it.
Since Pritchard took over Cup-keeping duties in , the Cup has been able to have some summer fun in a pool on at least three occasions.
The first was when the Penguins won the cup in Mario Lemieux was holding a team party at his house when the old two-niner, Phil Bourque, decided he wanted to see if the Cup could float.
It was quickly recovered, but took another swim two years later. In their drunken state, the players forgot about the cup until they sobered up the next day. When the Cup was recovered it was handed over to Harry Smith, the most responsible man on the Ottawa team.
There are over 2, names on the cup, and it is constantly changing. As new names are added, old rings are removed.
The names of players between and are at the Hockey Hall of Fame. These are most of the names from the Dominion Cup. It was a streamlined cup that would get a new band every year. It was originally called the Stovepipe Cup, but in it became too tall to hold and it became the tiered cup we know today.
While we would want to think that the official engravers — there have only been four in the history of the Cup — are perfect, some names have been inscribed incorrectly. Even team names are not safe. This mispelling is another way to tell the Presentation Cup from the Replica Cup. Men are not On March 22, , 43 people die when a portion of a hill suddenly collapses and buries a neighborhood in the small community of Oso, Washington, some 55 miles northeast of Seattle.
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