Where to find the stanley cup
THE NHL'S SECRET PROTOCOL IF THE STANLEY CUP GETS LOST, STOLEN or DAMAGED
there might not be a more storied or
coveted trophy in all of sports than the
Stanley Cup is the only trophy in the
four major North American leagues which
does not get replicated every year and
with its size 35 inches high and
weighing 35 pounds it's pure girth is
only eclipsed by the magnitude of what
it means to win it in the offseason each
member of the championship team gets
their traditional day with the cup where
they are able to do anything they want
with the trophy and take it wherever
they please but what if the trophy gets
lost stolen or severely damaged during
all that fun well we're going to find
out the NHL's secret protocol for that
coming up right after this
it's some this is not the Stanley Cup
and this is not the Stanley Cup either
this is the Stanley Cup sort of in order
to understand what happens if Alex
Ovechkin's new cuddle bug gets lost or
damaged we have to take a look at the
history of the trophy itself
commissioned in 1892 and named after
Lord Stanley of Preston the Cup is the
oldest of trophies that is awarded to a
professional franchise since its
creation the Cup has gone through many
changes and has even been lost and
damaged several times it was once
dropped kicked into a canal in Ottawa in
1905 in 1909 it was stolen from a
photographer's home and held for ransom
which nobody paid the thieves returned
it and it was used as a flowerpot for a
time in 1970 it was allegedly stolen
from the Hockey Hall of Fame apparently
it wasn't exactly the Thomas Crown
Affair and the cup was easily returned
though none of this story has ever been
verified so let's get to our original
question what happens if the Stanley Cup
gets damaged beyond repair lost or
stolen and is that protocol really a
secret yes it actually is or was rather
you see as I alluded to earlier there
are actually three Stanley Cups the
original bowl is on display in the
Hockey Hall of Fame and that's what it
was originally just a bowl but in 1909
rings began to be added so that the
winners could get their names engraved
on the cup a tradition that was started
early on this was an unsustainable
practice and this is what the cup would
look like today had teams continued to
do that
crazy right as the original bowl was
becoming too brittle and was in danger
of falling apart in 1963 the NHL had a
secret copy of the cup made this replica
cup also known as the presentation cup
was used for four years without anyone
knowing it was a fake so the last time
the real Stanley Cup was hoisted was by
the maple leaves 55 years ago
why did the NHL keep the replica a
secret because of all the things I have
said before the Cubs vaunted history and
meaning players and fans alike might not
have received the replicas so well had
they known they were hoisting a fake
with so many high quality replicas out
there the only way to know that the
presentation cup is the actual Cup is
the Hockey Hall of Fame seal at the
bottom which you can see when the
players are hoisting the cup on the ice
and screaming at the top of their lungs
but even after it was leaked at the cup
on the ice is a fake the NHL made
another replica but this time kept it
less of a secret in 1993 they created a
permanent Cup which resides in the
Hockey Hall of Fame at all times there
are some slight differences between the
presentation cup and the permanent Cup
mostly having to do with misspellings
and the name of basil Pocklington a team
owners dad being on the cup it's xed out
on the presentation cup it's not even
there on the permanent cup undeserving
people whose names don't belong on it
don't get edged on there even though
somehow Tom Wilson's name will
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so what if the presentation cup gets
lost stolen or heavily damaged the most
frequent of these occurrences is damage
which has happened several times in 1987
Mark Messier brought the cup back to his
hometown and let his friends drink from
it the cup received several dents and it
was repaired at a local body shop before
he gave it back in 2008 the cup fell off
a bar while in the care of Chris Chelios
and the dents were allegedly smoothed
out in Shelley's garage most of the time
if the cup gets damaged it's expected
that it is to be repaired or covered up
well enough not to be discovered before
it is passed on to the next player with
all the crazy things that have happened
to it there are limitations to what can
be done with the cup and that is all
controlled by man you may have seen
before the keeper of the cup aka Phil
Pritchard he has been the curator of the
pewter since 1989 when as an employee of
the Hockey Hall of Fame he was asked to
deliver it one day and it turned out he
was good at that it's been his job to
protect the cup ever since and he has
surely seen a few things happen to it
but his sheer presence alone lets you
know the cup is under the watchful eye
of a good Stewart at all times like the
time in 2002 when Dominik Hasek tried to
swim with it and Phil had enough and
took the cup from him so what if the cup
gets completely lost in 2007 the cup
made it all the way to Afghanistan it's
been to numerous countries including
Sweden the Czech Republic and Russia of
course with all that transport it's
feasible the cup could go down with a
plane or even be lost
which one time had spent the night in a
baggage holding area because it was too
heavy to put on a plane depending on the
time of the year and the circumstances
surrounding the total loss of the
presentation cup the permanent cup would
be used and a replica would likely be
commissioned immediately it's also not
known whether more replicas exist just
for this purpose
you never know what Bettman's up to he
could have one on his mantle filled with
cash of course
so there you have it your whole life is
a lie and the cup you see on TV isn't
the real cup but honestly I don't think
the players care too much
winning hockey's ultimate prize is an
accomplishment and the Stanley Cup is a
beautiful symbol of the tradition and
history involved in the sport also view
I get a chance to touch the cup you
might want to give it a good wipe down
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