Bienvenido a NHL. Every 13 years when the bottom band of the Stanley Cup is filled with names of champions, the top band is removed and retired to be displayed in the vault of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
The current top band, featuring NHL championship teams from to , is coming off, and four bands below it are sliding up one place to make room for a fresh fifth band at the bottom that will begin with the Washington Capitals. Each day through Oct.
From the lip of its bowl to the bottom of its barrel, the Stanley Cup is fine silver. But the trophy also is organic, an evolving celebration of hockey's championship teams and players, its shape and face having changed many times during its remarkable lifetime. Change is coming again this fall, as it does every 13 years, forever taking from the Cup the names of some of the greatest players to have laced up a pair of skates. The top of five bands on the Cup, bearing names, soon will be removed and retired.
It is a process that takes place when a polished band, wrapping around the inch circumference of the trophy's barrel, has been filled by 13 championship teams.
The Washington Capitals are to become the first team engraved on a fresh bottom band. The top band, featuring champions from the Detroit Red Wings to the Montreal Canadiens, will come off the Cup to make room. The retiring band this time features 12 teams, not the usual For a reason no one can explain, the engraving of the Canadiens takes up twice the normal space.
The trophy every hockey player dreams of winning and holding up high. How well do you know one of the toughest competitions in sport? Find out below! Statue of Lord Stanley. Did you know the Stanley Cup is named after a person? Lord Stanley enjoyed sports. After he saw his first hockey game, he and his family were hooked! His children convinced him there should be a trophy for the best team in the country.
In , he bought a silver bowl from a shop in London, England, and donated it. It was decided the trophy should be named after him. But only one team wins the trophy at the end of the season. Like the fact that two babies were baptized in the Cup. Or how many women have their names on the Cup? And which team forgot they even won the Cup? Three years earlier, at the Montreal Winter Carnival, he and his family fell in love with the sport of hockey. The Cup has come a long way since then.
While two Stanley Cups get the chance to meet people, there are actually three. The above photo is of the original cup known as the Dominion Hockey Challenge, which was awarded until Why did the Cup change?
It was created in by Montreal silversmith Louise St. It is used as a stand-in at the Hall of Fame when the Presentation Cup is not available.
The current Stanley Cup, which is a replica of the original bowl with with newer bands below, weighs in at True hockey fans will be the first to say that their sport has the best trophy.
The truth is, we do. For one thing, the Stanley Cup goes to the players first, instead of the owners. You may even notice some coaches step back and let their players raise it first. Coming in at Unlike other teams, a new trophy is not made every year. Instead, players get to raise the exact cup they dreamt of raising as children.
The Cup also gets the names of players, coaches, management and staff of the winning team permanently engraved on them. If you win the Cup, your name will go down in hockey history. The rings can be taken apart and the Cup put back into shape, at the expense of the organization that damaged it. People eat and drink out of it. They put their babies in it, and sometimes said babies leave behind evidence.
Phil Pritchard, who is currently in Tampa, is the most recognizable of the keepers. They travel with the Cup — it used to get its own seat on planes but now is checked — and are present wherever it is.
The keepers wear white gloves to handle the Cup so when it is first presented to the winning team, the first fingerprints on it are from the commissioner and the team that has won it. When the Cup is on display to the public, people are allowed to touch it, but they cannot lift it.
Lifting the Cup is reserved for those who have won it. But hockey lore says someone who touches the Cup but has not won it will never win it. As for the players who win the Cup, they can do anything with it. Subscribe Manage my subscription Activate my subscription Log in Log out. Regions Tampa St. Letters to the Editor Submit a Letter.
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