THE POP EXPOSE – THE STANLEY CUP NOT JUST A TROPHY!
Hello everyone. Today I’m taking a look at Lord Stanley’s Cup. The original Stanley Cup was won in 1893 by the Montreal Hockey club and resides in the Hockey Hall of fame in Toronto Canada. The original cup was donated by Lord Stanley of a Preston, the Canadian Governor General of Canada. This is a unique trophy, one because of the sheer size of it, two because each player who wins it gets to bring it home with them and parade it through their home town.
The championship team also gets their name engraved on the cup. Last week on the Dan Patrick Show I caught an interview with Mark Messier one of the great players of our time spending most of his 25 year career with the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Rangers. They were talking about the cup and how they make a mixed drink in it and anyone who wants to can have a drink from the cup. They also mentioned that it ended up in the bottom of the pool at another hockey legends house Pittsburgh Penguin’s Mario Lemieux.
If the cup could talk I’m sure there would be some crazy stories. After the show I started doing a little research on the cup and talk about going down a rabbits hole! So many names have been added to the cup and there is bound to be a typo, there is a list of misspelled names, some who have various spellings of their name from year to year, and even some names that have been scratched out completely. Hockey is still one of the great competitive games. There will be blood spilled, teeth lost, men being stitched up and sent back in to compete for the chance to hoist the cup up high above his head and be a part of Stanley Cup history.
