1 - Its rings are detachable
Since 1958, five teams from the championship names
have been engraved around the base of the cup. When the episodes become full,
the oldest squad is removed and saved to Lord Stanley in Vault at Great Esso
Hall in the Hockey Hall of Fame. An empty squad is then put in place to fill in
the names of the next two heroes. There are no championship team names from
1928 to 1953-1954 currently on the Cup.
2- Stanley Cup is not for men only.
Twelve women have their names listed in the cup. The
first was Margaret Norris, who was the chair of Detroit Red Wings to win a
season. Sonia Scherfield is the only Canadian woman with her name; she was
co-owner of the Calgary Flames champion in 1988.
3 - The cup has an assistant
The trophy has always been accompanied by at least one
representative of the hockey hall of fame, and it is called "Cup
Guard". The current Keeper, Philip Pritchard, has held his position since
1991 until he maintains a Twitter account to keep his followers updated. The
cup goes from day to day.
Turning back when the trophy was donated, Lord Stanley
ordered the appointment of a permanent guardian to take care of the trophy and
make sure to keep it in good condition. The current trustees are Brian O'Neil
and Ian "Scotty" Morrison, and according to the Hockey Hall of Fame,
they "have absolute power in all matters relating to the Stanley
Cup."
4 - The Stanley Cup went swimming at least three times.
After his 1991 victory over Minnesota North Stars,
Pittsburgh legend Penguin Mario Limo hosted the team at his home. When Lemieux
was not looking, the Penguins team player, Phil Bourque, decided he wanted to
know if the cup might float, and threw the cup into the team's indoor pool. She
did not float, and immediately sank to the bottom (fortunately, she was
recovered unharmed).
Two years later, the trophy also found the bottom of
Montreal Canadiens' Patrick Ruiz group. But in 2002, when Dominic Hasek, the
Red Wings goalkeeper, tried to swim with the cup, the goalkeeper had enough: he
asked Hasek to dry the cup and return it, thereby shortening his allotted day.
5 - Spent one night at the Ottawa Channel.
When the Ottawa Hockey Club, now known as the Ottawa
Senators, won the cup in 1905, the Silver Seven members had a great deal of fun
celebrating their victory. After the team banquet, some discreet players
brought the cup out and decided to test their accuracy by trying to kick the
small cup in the Rideau Channel in Ottawa.
Once successful, they went drunk and then forgot about
everything - until their next team mates realized that the cup was missing.
Lord Stanley Cup was retrieved and given to a player named Harry Smith, the
team's most responsible man, for safekeeping.
6 - Two children were baptized in the cup.
After Colorado Avalanche won the 1995-1996
championship, defender Sylvain took advantage of his personal day with the cup
to have his daughter baptized in the upper bowl.
Eleven years later, after the Detroit Red Wings victory
in 2007-08, Swedish left winger Thomas Holmstrom brought satellite TV back to
his country of origin so that his cousin could baptize his 7-week-old daughter
into the cup.
7 - The cup went to war.
It was all over the world, from Russia to the Czech
Republic to Sweden, but in 2007, the Stanley Cup went to war. To enhance the
morale of Canadian and American forces operating in the Middle East, the trophy
was moved to an active war zone in the Nathan Smith camp in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, to meet and greet. Canadians love nothing more than hockey, and
you can read troop reactions in the Stanley Cup in the Hall of Fame when you
went to Afghanistan here.
8 - May carry a curse
When Messier and Rangers won in 1994, he ended the
54-year-old drought championship on Broadway Blueserts (the team has not won
since the 1939season). Fans think the curse may have been brought in because
the Rangers didn't respect the trophy.
During the 39season,
the mortgage was paid off on the Rangers home circuit - at the time when
Madison Square Garden was finally embodied -. To celebrate, the team's
management symbolically burned the mortgage documents in the Stanley Cup bowl.
Then, left wing Lyn Patrick and his colleagues urinated in the cup bowl to
celebrate their victory strangely. Rangers finally took the cup again in 1994,
but haven't won the final hockey prize since.
9 - The trophy is from the players right for a day.
Each NHL team allocates a hundred off-season
championships with the trophy (accompanied by Keeper, of course) to do it as
they like. It was the 1994-1995 New Jersey Devils championship that drew a
tradition of giving each player a personal day with the off-season trophy.
Indeed, since season 03, the Hall of Fame has kept league records with every
winning team. Although some players use their day with the cup for peaceful
meditation, others feel a little crazy with the Lord Stanley Cup, as you will
see below.
10 - One of the fans stole the cup
Montreal fans firmly insist on the cup since during
the playoffs of 1962, when the trophy was shown at the Chicago Stadium for the
defender Black Hawk defender (the name was pressed on "Black Hawk" in
1986), the Hobbs team's Ken Keellander Cup fan tried to walk right outside the
door with her. When a police officer arrested and interrogated him, Kilander
replied, "I want to bring him back to his place, to Montreal."
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