British Guys Watch Insane History of the NHL Stanley Cup Trophy! (REACTION)

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[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

Lord Stanley's Cup the prettiest and hardest fought after trophy in major sports

[@FirstNameLastName-lu5nr]

What about the ufc title? Seems like people fight harder for that, seeing as they are actually fighting. (This is a joke don’t come at me)

[@colinryan4737]

It ruins the joke when you say it’s a joke btw.😂

[@TheIcemanthomas]

@@FirstNameLastName-lu5nr smh get out 😂

[@NingerGuts]

There needs to be a modern day follow up to the Dave Semenko vs Muhammad Ali fight.

[@kristinehirtle6021]

This guy left out so much...first of all, it was just a bowl and when they started putting the names of every winning team member on it, it got filled so they keep adding the bands and it is big. What he is talking about, where it has been and what has been done, is all true. It has all happened. Because each player on the winning team gets it for one day or week, to do what they want with it. That is why it gets so many places. And ,yes, people like to get pictures with it, and take it around in public. Who wouldn't want to drive around their home town with the Stanley Cup. It seems a lot of guys take it to their home town and let people touch it ,have a parade,etc. The crazy stuff doesn't really happen so much any more. But you can imagine if you have the Cup with a bunch of buddies and you get really drunk, stuff can happen. There isn't much more history that you need to know. Maybe he could have shown who won it over the years and some more interesting things about it. Like it is tradition for first the Captain and then each player to hold it high above their head and skate around the ice surface once right after it is presented to the winning team, and I think every winning player has drunk champagne out of it, as this seems to be the first thing they do when they get in the locker room.

[@rozmarnowich]

Thank you for your accurate comment.

[@hrussell9677]

This video really is bad. The narrator missed so much and also didn’t understand how the cup had bands added over time. I don’t know who recommended this video but this company is known for its inaccurate and poorly researched videos.

[@elementalargon7597]

@Atheos B. Sapien (Ubi dubium ibi liberatas) Well said. I was going to say the same.

[@grangerjung4129]

It's only been since 1995 that New Jersey Devils started the tradition for each member of the winning team to have the Cup for a day. This is according to Google; I thought it was the 1980's Oilers.

[@grangerjung4129]

@Atheos B. Sapien (Ubi dubium ibi liberatas) I know in the '70's, only the captain of the winning team carried the cup around the rink, then everyone headed to the dressingroom to celebrate. It was the Oilers who started passing the Cup to each team member on the ice. So, if you say Google is wrong, then which team started allowing each team member to keep the Cup for a day?

[@brianstacey2679]

I was at dinner at Commander's Palace in New Orleans one night when some guys showed up for dinner carrying a large case. The staff told them the case had to stay in the front but the gentleman politely explained that it could not leave their side. The guys said that if the restaurant would seat them, they would open the case and everyone would know why it had to remain in their possession. They were seated, opened the case, and out comes the Stanley Cup. The guys were Mark Messier and some NHL executive and a few others.

[@DNReacts]

Love this! Great story, thanks Brian!

[@nick422742]

He never even mentioned that a ring gets added to the bottom of the cup every year with all the players' names on it.

[@downrighttt]

Hockey is always Detroit’s shining beacon of hope. No matter how shit everything else is, we still have our Red Wings

[@shebeko1]

Hearing the Canadiens won 23 cups is breaking my heart 😂

[@johnleak8396]

Actually, Montreal has won it 24 times. One was before before the founding of the NHL.

[@Warmbodie]

This one got me riled up as a Seattle hockey fan. The first American team to win the cup was the Seattle Metropolitans in 1917. Despite the lack of an NHL team until recently, Seattle has a great hockey history!

[@ImaCOTV]

Seattle win it during the period when the Stanley Cup was contested between the winners of the National Hockey League and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. They were also involved in the first year that the Cup wasn't awarded, in 1919. In that year Seattle and Montreal played in Seattle, however an outbreak of Spanish Influenza hit the Montreal Canadiens very hard and they couldn't put together a full team after the third or fourth game. They offered to default the remaining games and let Seattle win, but the Seattle coach refused, so the trophy wasn't awarded that year. Shortly after one of the decision was made, one of the Montreal players died.

[@michaelflynn458]

Additional info: No professional hockey player will touch the Cup until they are on a team that wins it. That's why the celebration after winning the finals is so loud, long, and filled with emotion. Partly superstition, but mostly respect for the Cup and what it takes to win it.

[@obelisk21]

It was the Edmonton Oilers of the early 80s that started the tradition of taking the cup out to bars in the Edmonton area so they could share it with the fans. Mark Messier who was born and raised in the Edmonton area was on those teams and was part of that tradition. In fact, they put a big dent in it and had to get it repaired by the body shop of a local car dealership. He went on to be the captain of the Rangers when they won the cup in 94 when they talked about the Rangers taking the cup out to clubs in this video. All of the stories you heard in this video are true and pictures are available for many of the incidents discussed. As each winning player of the Stanley Cup is given a day with it and players in the NHL come from all over Europe and North America, it definitely has travelled to all of those countries where typically players will host some event in their hometown with the cup on their day.

[@DNReacts]

Thank you for the comment, great read!

[@QuackAttack]

My favorite Stanley Cup moment was back in 2019 when the St. Louis Blues won it for the first time... a fan by the name of Ben Friedman celebrated each win by posting videos of himself dancing to the song Gloria (the victory song for the Blues) with his pet chinchilla, Boris. Blues fans rallied around Boris as their good luck charm and when the Blues eventually won the Stanley Cup, Boris was allowed to sit inside the Cup 😊

[@HurricaneCook]

So, I don't know about the guys peeing on it because it was on fire, but a key fact that was missed in the video is this: If your team wins the cup, one of the things you get to do is have "your day with the cup". There's certain criteria of number of games played, and if you meet the criteria, your name is inscribed on the cup, and you get a day to do basically whatever you want with it. It's always overseen by a "caretaker", but you can basically do whatever you want with it. So all those trips to foreign countries were probably players deciding that they wanted to take the cup "back home", so the cup flies out and the caretakers give the trophy to the player. For sure it's been peed in by kids, I've heard the stories of it being left on the road on accident, it's been dented a number of times, it's been in the bottom of player's swimming pools, players sleep with it in their beds, I've seen people eat cereal out of it, all sorts of shenanigans.

[@ImaCOTV]

The only reason I can think of for peeing on the Cup due to an uncontrollable is that Silver melts at 960 degrees Celsius.

[@clownbaby9818]

The Detroit redwings and Colorado avalanche rivalry in the 90s was very good you should watch a video on that !!!

[@charleswynn5163]

I believe one of the years the Penguins won it the cup was at the bottom of a swimming pool. Each players gets it and takes it for day most to their home towns so anything can happen especially when they first get it and all go out to party. If your team wins it there is usually a chance to go see it and get a picture with

[@NingerGuts]

There's actually an awesome book called "Why Is the Stanley Cup in Mario Lemieux's Swimming Pool?" I love the symmetry that he scores a wonder goal against the North Stars, then a few years and a relocation later the Stars have an "accident" with the cup at Vinnie Paul's house.

[@timcampbell5758]

I don’t think the video made it very clear that along with the team name and year that it was won, that each player who contributed to the winning of the cup has their name engraved on it. Thus you can read the names of the most famous players along with those of less fame. Of course the more times your name is on the cup the better. There are a few who have their name on it in double digits. As well, each of those bands have dozens of full team rosters. Periodically the band fills up so they remove the top band with the farthest back teams on it and add a blank band at the bottom for more teams. Thus this trophy is in essence the “same” one. This really connects the present winning team with those great teams and players of the past and creates the “weight of history” when you win. In other leagues there is a trophy made each year which the teams keeps. By the way the old bands are on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Great reaction on your part. Go Leafs Go. PS you guys have reacted to two Bama losses in college football, yet they’ve been on a historic almost 15 year run. You should check out some of their wins or a compilation of their best plays. Roll Tide!!

[@areguapiri]

No more Alabama videos, please.

[@jefffeucht1577]

That is a very confusing video to learn about the Stanley cup and your guys reaction is completely understandable but still hilarious. I’m not certain how much of that is true but I believe most of it. I do know each player who wins it gets to have it for at least one day to do whatever they want which is why it’s been all over the world and explains a lot of those crazy stories. You guys keep making em and I’ll keep watching.

[@DNReacts]

Thank you Jeff, love the support!

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

I think all the oldest awards originated in Canada essentially, the Stanley Cup, the Calder Cup (AHL hockey), and the Grey Cup (CFL football) which predates the NFL by some decades.

[@anntelford8647]

It's true. Every member of the Stanley Cup winning team gets the cup for a day. Some have a better time with the cup than others. That's how most of these incidents they mentioned occurred. Its travels are typically cataloged by the media in the city that wins and hockey news. You'll probably find another video that gives a better breakdown of the process to win the cup. One tradition that, I believe, everyone follows is no shaving after you get into the playoffs. Playoff beards are a real thing too.

[@elijahfoster2]

Yes!! The magic of hockey playoffs is upon us. Can’t wait to see you guys react to an electrifying goals compilation, overtime winners, something to that effect

[@33RoyCorpPor]

Last years miced up final is really good (Tampa/Colorado)

[@brettrossi034]

Its only been 3 games into every series and yet its already had drama and absolute mayhem unfold in some series and the intensity of the playoffs!!:) Even the 2-0 series with Isles/Canes and Devils/Rangers got pushed to 2-1 with no potential sweeps and adding to the series intensity

[@Guildofarcanelore]

I saw the cup in Niagara Falls as a member of the team brought it to “Jack’s Cantina”. I also saw it in Afghanistan, as it came on a tour with celebrities to boost morale.

[@zeromega4541]

Every player gets to take the cup for a day or two and they can do whatever they want with it. I remember when Slava Koslav took it to Russia for the first time and people where afraid that it would be stolen because Russia was ran by the mob at the time.

[@ryanc9888]

React to “Names on the Cup NHL promo 2017. That 3 minute video will give you a good idea of what the Stanley Cup means to the players.

[@garfinkelc11]

It's worth pointing out the reasoning behind the gaudy total championship numbers for Montreal, Toronto, and Detroit. Way back in the 1930s and 40s, teams had what were known as territorial rights, meaning that they were able to be the first team to negotiate with players from their region; so Montreal had first dibs on any French-Canadians, while Toronto had those rights for players from Ontario, Boston had those rights in New England, etc. At that point in time, hockey was predominantly a Canadian game, so all the best players grew up in Canada and wound up on Montreal or Toronto. Even if they didn't acquire every star player they had this way, it was enough to give them a significant competitive advantage, and many Canadian stars whose rights weren't restricted like this wound up signing in Canada anyway. Detroit is a little different. Their first owner, James Norris, was a very savvy businessman. While owner of the Red Wings, he bought Chicago Stadium, making him the Blackhawks landlord. He was also the largest stockholder of Madison Square Garden and had enough support from their board that he effectively controlled the New York Rangers as well. He also provided significant loans to the Boston Bruins franchise, giving him clout as a creditor. So as you can see, he had outright control, or at least significant influence, over all four American Original Six teams. He used that influence to funnel all the promising talent from the other three American teams to Detroit. So Detroit was able to compete against the Canadian teams while Chicago, New York, and Boston languished at the bottom of the league, only winning 2 cups combined from 1940 and 1970.

[@abp2005]

There have been a few books written about Lord Stanley's journeys. Such as how a woman once found it after it had been forgotten and used it for a potted plant. There are so many more stories than what that video described.

[@molsonsens]

My understanding is all that is true. I am Canadian and played, coached and watched my whole life. Wild!

[@bruceshodgepodge]

The smallest town to win the Stanley Cup is Kenora,Ontario in 1907, the hometown of Mike Richards, 2 time Stanley Cup winner with the Los Angeles Kings in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. .

[@Cashcrop54]

Many of those this are well known. I have heard many of them before in hockey magazines and the Hockey News. Every team member of the winning team gets to keep the cup 24 hrs and he does what ever he wants. The winning team gets the cup for 100 days. Today, an NHL official accompanies the cup and makes sure it is taken care of. That gives some indirect evidence of those historical antics. I loved video and reaction!

[@supersasukemaniac]

All this information is public knowledge either through the Hockey Hall of Fame, who are the Cup's caretakers and hold the physical cup during the season (and even deep clean it all the time). Or through the the NHLPA.

[@H8Gravity]

Highly recommend:Miracle on ice-Greatest American Sports Moment of all Time. It’s not NHL but it does involve awesome hockey. Each player gets a day with the Cup. The team has their names engraved, which is how it’s grown over time. There is a man who is the keeper of the cup. He travels and kinda babysits. When the Capitals won, they had to stop doing cup stands as they were bending the bowl of the cup.

[@videogamevalley7523]

…The Stanley Cup I think is the only trophy that the players can take home and that alone is cool as hell.

[@JT.Pilgrim]

Sir Stanley surely understands the humour of the cup.

[@majbrat]

Our small city has had the cup come 9 times and it is always exciting. One year Scott Niedermeyer took it up to the top of the highest point of the Rockies in our area, and got an awesome picture. Search for Lord Staley Reaches New Heights. 😊

[@Tjd1982]

A player who shall remain unamed had it in his house, with some highschool friends, for the one day he gets with the cup. We decided on eating waffles. Then brought it to our mens beer league game, where we paraded around after winning.

[@vincentcorrigan5209]

Each player and team employee. Is given the Cup for a period of time to show off. In their own way.. Had a sip of champagne in 94..and was at Belmont Park Race Track..when the horse (owned by Eddie Olzcyec) ate some oats .. Best day of my then young life..

[@LiqdPT]

4:53 woah. The Seattle Metropolitans were the first American team to win the Cup in 1917 when it was still a challenge cup. The Rangers were the first US team to win it in rhe NHL, but that was many years after Seattle had won it.

[@TheAcgtrs]

Over 100 years, the stories are nearly endless… The Cup is the greatest sport’s trophy… The stories are true…

[@NickKaminski1980]

A couple inaccuracies in this presentation. The first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup was the Seattle.Meteopolitans of the PCHA, in 1917. The NHL would compete for the cup the following year. The original cup was just the cup which is represented on top of all the rings. However, the current cup used, in presentation, is a reproduction.

[@magarthur3420]

It's all true. Each player on the winning team gets a day with the Cup. Last year one of the Avalanche took it to his boyhood home and slept with it (literally, nothing sexual lol) in his childhood bed with all his junior hockey trophies and awards still in the room. That was one of the cooler ones lately.

[@OldGoat-cw8he]

Unrivaled: Red Wings vs Avalanche. It covers The Code, The Cup, physical hockey, fast beautiful hockey. Basically everything that is the NHL.

[@The72114]

It’s been to all those places and that’s what makes it the greatest trophy ever…

[@exile220ify]

This video omits SO MUCH detail. Like, for example, there were no "rings" until about the 1930s, and they were in a stovepipe configuration. Similarly, the American connection completely omits the fact that the Seattle Metropolitans won the Cup in 1917 (and almost won in 1919 but the health authorities shut it down due to the flu pandemic). Montreal "Canadiens" is also misspelled.

[@JoTheSnoop]

Last September, I had photos taken with the Cup. The Cup visited Melbourne, Australia when Arizona Coyotes and LA Kings played two pre-season games. I did not touch the Cup.

[@MrDMF567]

Greatest trophy in sports. The Cup is so incredibly beautiful 😀

[@jhedges8301]

As a hockey fan, that video left out a ton of important facts about the cup... ill go look for a good one and if I find it I'll update my comment.

[@connor9460]

If you guys are interested in reacting to a specific NHL player, one of the best to start off with would be Sidney Crosby! He's one of the best of all time, the most accomplished active player and he was the best player in the NHL in the 2010s. He's in his mid 30s so he's slowing down a bit (still averaged over a point per game this year and is very good defensively), but I think he'd be one of the best players to start off with. He's a very well rounded player so you would be able to see a lot of different aspects of hockey in the highlights. His team, the Penguins, didn't make the playoffs this year for the first time in 16 straight seasons, which was the longest stream in all major sports. So you won't see him included in any of the playoff coverage, but that shows how good Crosby has been his whole career.

[@flightmasteronezeroone907]

That's wrong. Seattle was the first American City to hoist Lord Stanley's cup, New York was the first American NHL team to hoist the cup.

[@KMS548]

They skipped quite a bit of history between 1888 and 1926. First off, the first ever American team to put their names on the cup were the Portland Rosebuds of Portland, Oregon, who lost in the finals in 1916. The very next year, 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first American team to win it

[@abrahamdeweese5882]

Factually incorrect. The Seattle Metropolitans (not the rangers) were the first American team to win the Stanley cup in 1917. Also, Montreal Canadians won the stanley cup 24 times.

[@jesseshore3873]

The first American team to win the Stanley Cup was actually the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (both defunct). Back then it was decided in a series between the NHL and PCHL champions, before the PCHL and the successor Western Hockey League both folded, leaving it with just the NHL

[@SylviusTheMad]

Canada's two major sporting trophies were both created by Governors-General. The Stanley Cup, or course, was from Lord Stanley, and the Grey Cup (the Canadian rugby trophy, which is now given to Canadian football teams) was from Earl Grey (not the same guy with the tea - that was his grandfather).

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

The cup is metal and (almost) impossible to get burning... You can, however, put flammable materials IN the cup! And if you can't put the flames out and have no water available, you have to make the water! Not mentioned in the video... The Rangers brought the cup to strip clubs... there were more people OUTRAGED that Mark Messier, Brian Leetch and Mike Richter took the Cup on the Howard Stern radio show! ... "Cup, shmup! I don't know anything about hockey... So.. which one of you gets laid the most?"

[@zacharyjeffares8158]

The first Americans to win the Stanley Cup are the Seattle Metropolitans in 1917, the Boston Bruins were the first American NHL team to win the cup

[@alecnotalec4963]

People refer to Detroit as "Hockey Town" for a reason. The Red Wings were one of the original six national teams, and they have a fanbase larger than any single Canadian team (which, even with the population difference, is nuts if you consider how ferociously Canadians love hockey). They've had some of the best playoff runs in history, and produced some truly amazing cup wins. Definitely check out Steve Yzerman. They're generally viewed as a classy, model organization, which is ironic given their home city. Unfortunately, much like their home city, they're currently in a pretty bad slump, but if you wanna root for a sleeping giant, they are a great pick.

[@Zaximillian]

There are multiple names inside the Cup from players who repaired it themselves. "When I got the Cup there was a bolt that was loose on the inside. It is very easy to take the bottom off of it and when I took the bottom off, I proceeded to fix the loose nut, and I noticed some French names that were carved inside. They had repaired the Cup in the 1940s and that is where I got the idea from. "It says Phil Bourque, Pittsburgh Penguins, 90-91, Enjoy it!"

[@Veiled_Aiel]

Watch Nathan Mackinnon- has been an MVP candidate almost every year he's been in the NHL, and is a defending champ in the playoffs that are happening right now.

[@supersasukemaniac]

There is also a few more superstitions about trophys in the NHL, if you touch the President's Cup (Regular Season Champion) the Prince of Wales Trophy (Eastern Conference) or the Clarence Campbell Bowl (Western Conference) you won't win the Stanley that year. It's to the point that teams don't even publicly accept those trophys.

[@johnleak8396]

The Cup was first awarded in 1893. Won by Montreal AAA aka "The Winged Wheelers."

[@jasonm8017]

Was liking watching the story of my life, if I could life twice as long. All hail Lord Stanley! Playoffs🎉

[@phunkjnky]

Per hockey, Detroit is nicknamed "Titletown." But that only applies to hockey. We make fun of them, but all of Detroit's teams have won championships, but the Lions have just gone through a long dry spell. Do a deep dive on the 1997 brawl between the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche, looking at what led up to it too. This is legendary night that has several nicknames including "Fight Night At the Joe (Louis Arena), Brawl in Hockeytown, and Bloody Wednesday.

[@rickm8443]

That video glossed over the history of the cup. The original cup was the bowl part. Over the years they added on rings. Smaller rings then later on they removed them and added the larger rings. The Stanley Cup is entrusted to 2 Canadians. When one passes away or gets too old he passes on his responsibility to another Canadian. - or something like that. In essence, the Stanley Cup is Canadian and always will be. The NHL just borrows it. There is a lot more to learn about Lord Stanley’s Cup.

[@g0019c]

Those stories are true...and there is a lot more to tell.

[@tervalas]

The Stanley Cup isn't the oldest trophy award in competition. Simply the oldest for a team sport. The America's Cup for sailing was first awarded in 1851 and received its current name in 1857.

[@noahdoss1967]

My grandmother’s cousin, Dickie Moore, has his name on that cup many times over

[@Sasukefan1230]

All of the horrible things have happened to the Cup are public knowledge because there's one guy whose entire job description is "protect the Stanley Cup when it leaves the Hall of Fame." And it's been all over Europe since there's plenty of NHL players from there who take it home when they get their one day with it after they win.

[@Timmycoo]

A few of the newer iconic moments were when Ovechkin did a keg stand to drink out of it and Phil Kessel posted a pic of him with a bunch of hot dogs in it lol. He got teased for his figure because he did not look like a professional athlete. Also a bunch of those things are anecdotal and you gotta think that a kid would 100% do some of those things. And I found it funny that the Infographics channel said that the guy who stole it took it back to Montreal when he was a Maple Leafs fan?

[@ForestOfSleep]

This video was the most haphazard thing I have ever seen. Should have been titled "Funny situations with the Stanley Cup" or something.

[@adamplace1414]

So with the "oldest trophy" thing, they're being particular about phrasing. It is the oldest existing trophy in professional team sports - the original FA Cup would be older if it was still around. The oldest sports trophy, period, is yacht racing's America's Cup (named after the first boat to win it, back in 1851).

[@petermontagnon4440]

Yes it has!!! And very more!!!!

[@vicegrips188]

I missed out getting a hold and picture. I have a picture of my friend drinking from it

[@ethanpretre1113]

Being dropped off a balcony may be referencing when the Dallas Stars won the cup and had a party with Vinne Paul and Dimebag Darrell of Pantera at Vinne Paul’s house. It was supposed to go into the pool.

[@ibstrummin2]

i've drank beer from Lord Stanley's Cup.. back in the late 90's i was a regular at a bar that a couple of Detroit Redwing players also frequented. three different years the cup came up (twice by them, and also once by a member of the Ney Jersey Devils who came to visit one of them.. personally only saw it there once tho.. that time, they brought it behind the bar, filled it from the tap with Labatt Blue, and went along the bar letting everyone drink.

[@supersasukemaniac]

Montreal is part of French speaking Canada, hence the translation

[@jwestphal1978]

The gentleman that has cared for it the past 30 yrs wears gloves everytime he handles it. They have a giant case on wheels for it.

[@accountingsr955]

Just a quick correction: The team name is The Montreal Canadiens or Les Canadiens de Montréal or Le Club d'hockey Canadien. It is not the Montreal Canadians. Secondly, they have won the Stanley Cup 24 times, the last being in 1993

[@fitzgeraldlansanah5306]

Stanley cup is my favorite trophy and he forgot to mention each year another name gets added and unlike the NBA nfl and mlb the players get the trophy first

[@kevinhennessey3189]

Up until 1970 there were only 6 teams on the NHL very regional sport. If you want to see vids on Great Players look up Gordy Howe of Detroit, Bobby Orr from Boston and Wayne Gretzky.

[@MrJeddYoung]

I live in Central California in a medium sized city named Fresno and so I'm not really a hockey fan ( we don't get any snow here) - but i enjoyed this video - didn't know the history of the Stanley Cup - so thanks for posting this one. Looking forward to your next one -

[@NoPrefect]

You missed the halcyon days of the Fresno Fighting Falcons hockey team.

[@fergusscruffypants3025]

I went on a “road trip” starting in Long Beach (IHL Ice Dogs), then Bakersfield (Condors???) and then Fresno…the SCARIEST hotel I’ve ever stayed in (across from the jail…). The glass came down during the Fresno game! Met the “Hansen brothers” (Slapshot…WATCH IT!!!) in SLC and Bakersfield (knew one player’s wife and was invited back to the “wives room”).

[@ImaCOTV]

Lord Stanley of Preston was probably better known by his other title, The Earl of Derby. Pretty much everything that was described in the video happened to the Stanley Cup. Every player on the winning team gets one day with the Cup and they can do what they want with it during that day. It was taken to Afghanistan at least twice to be seen by Canadian troops stationed there during the Afghan War. The Cup has an official “keeper” whose job is to accompany it when it travels around the country. Okay, so a couple off stories that aren't in this video. There are actually THREE Stanley Cups. The original Cup, the bowl that Lord Stanley commissioned (made of silver not steel) became too fragile to be presented so the second or “Presentation” Cup was commissioned in 1963. The original bowls and some of the rings are on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. In addition a third version of the Cup, known as “The Display Cup” is put on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on those occasions when the Presentation Cup isn't available (on your, being given away, being engraved etc.). The names of every player who winner the Cup has been engraved on the Cup. However they aren't all there today. Periodically the rings in the main barrel of the Cup (the five lower rings) fill up, so the top ring is removed and a new lower ring is added. If that wasn't dinner the Cup would be too big and too heavy to lift. There is enough space on each ring for 13 teams. The rings that are removed are displayed at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[@emobx02]

Last year after Colorado won, each player got to take the cup to their respective celebrations, which is pretty normal I guess. One of my friend's parents live in the same neighborhood as a player, and the neighbors threw a party for him and it was apparently his turn to have the cup, so he brought it with him to their rather small party and they all got pictures with it. lol they seem pretty chill with letting the players take it, but I'm sure there's more to it than that.

[@zacharyliles8657]

Yes the Detroit Red Wings really have won 11 Stanley Cups and they are the most successful American hockey club. Detroit is nicknamed Hockeytown

[@pushpak]

Detroit = Hockeytown. Detroit Red Wings is a legendary club with legendary players such as; Gordie Howe (Mr. Hockey), Steve Yzerman (The Captain), Nicklas Lidstrom, etc. Let the calamari flow!

[@terryomalley1974]

Hockeytown only in the US. The real centre of the hockey world is, obviously, Montreal.

[@pushpak]

@@terryomalley1974 I was actually waiting for someone to say this. Montreal didn't claim the title and Detroit has so, no, Hockeytown=Detroit.

[@cosmickid1794]

Greetings from the great white north eh!! Well, there are 3 Stanley Cups. The original bowl is at the hockey hall of fame in Toronto. There is the "Presentation Cup", obviously, that's the Stanley Cup presented to the winning team by the league commissioner that they skate around with. The third cup is known as the "Permanent Cup". That is on permanent display at the hockey hall of fame. The presentation cup is the trophy that players have for the day, so, the Hall of Fame needs a trophy on display for tourists, so it has the permanent Stanley Cup for that reason.

[@Tansle620]

They had to pee on the cup to cool it down as it was sterling silver. Silver heats up the quickest from all your basic every day metals.

[@SP.007]

11:30 - to break the curse, they should have all players touch the cup before the season starts.

[@hoodatdare7039]

One day it was at HOLIDAY FORD after the RANGERS won it and i got my picture with it.

[@zacharyjeffares8158]

The Ottawa Senators tried booting the bowl across the Reduea Canal and it didn’t make it, so it sat in the middle of the frozen waterway until they retrieved it the next morning. It has been used as a planter, bubble gum bowl at a bowling alley, gone swimming in pools, spent a night at both poles of the planet, got lost at YVR in Vancouver when transporting the cup to Alaska because the plane couldn’t carry it along with the rest of the luggage, babies have sat in it, it has been involved in two heists, placed upside down at a Def Leppard concert, it has been featured in the Sahara desert for “sand hockey” (street hockey in Africa), the cup has gone sledding, ice fishing, been dropped off a boat, toured a Safari in Central America, it has held just about every alcohol imaginable, and there are even spelling mistakes all over it!

[@zacharyjeffares8158]

Players have slept with it, one guy named Guy Lafleur just took it straight home from the celebrations after the game at sat it on his front lawn and had a feast with his family, last year the Colorado Avalanche dropped it when trying to get their team photo and dented it, it’s been pulled in half, gone skydiving (yes really), used as a dinner table centrepiece, gone to Daytona, Indy, Monaco, Le Mans, Soccer Matches, baseball games, fashion shows, red carpet at the Oscars, and so much more

[@QuackAttack]

5:08 UGH 🙄 it's the *Montréal CANADIENS* because they're from the French-speaking province of Québéc

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

You have to feel bad for Toronto Maple Leafs fans.. An Original Six team Last Stanley Cup - 1966-67 Last time they won a playoff round - 2003-4 And this year if they can win the first round, they get to taste the sweet, sweet nectar of losing to Boston in the second round

[@Harrison244]

Got to see my Canes raise it in 06 and hopefully we can do the same this year 😤

[@JPMadden]

1) Not only did Lord Stanley's sons take up the sport of hockey while living in Canada, but his daughter did also. Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy (1875-1963) was one of the first European women to play hockey. The championship trophy of the Premier Hockey Federation, a professional women's league with teams in the U.S. and Canada, is called the Isobel Cup. 2) It's been decades since there was room on the Cup for the names of every player who has won it. The base of the Cup consists of five rings, with room on each for all the names of 13 teams. Every 13 years, the oldest ring is retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and a new ring is added. Therefore, each winner's name remains on the Cup for 53-65 years. 3) It's not a secret, but the NHL doesn't talk about the fact that the original Cup was retired in 1970 to prevent further damage. The video does briefly mention this. From Wikipedia: "There are actually three Stanley Cups: the original bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup,' the authenticated 'Presentation Cup,' and the spelling-corrected 'Permanent Cup' on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame." The Presentation Cup is the one loaned each summer to the winning team. 4) Last year, after the players of the Colorado Avalanche won the Cup and skated around the ice with it, they gathered for a traditional photograph on the ice. One player (Nicolas Aube-Kubel) was still skating around with it and hurried over so he would be in the photo. In his haste he stumbled and put a large dent in the base of the Cup. If you google his name, you'll find the video. His teammates reactions to the damage are funny. Kubel actually got a tattoo of the Cup and included the dent.

[@September2004]

5:30 The image is misleading since back then the cup was a lot smaller. Maybe even just a bowl. 6:06 It was the Toronto Maple Leafs who won 13 times.

[@KevinQuinn81]

Not only did the Rangers pee in the cup and burn the lease to their home arena in it, but they also kicked out the other tenants of their arena out and that team's owner proceeded to proclaim that the Rangers would never win the cup again in his lifetime. All of these things are traced to why the Rangers would considered cursed and didn't win again for another 54 years. Right before they did win in 1994, the ring of the cup where the 1940 team's names were engraved was removed and sent to the hockey hall of fame so they could add a fresh ring for new winners and this is how we think the curse was lifted. That being said, we haven't won since 94 and have only made 1 finals appearance since sooooo 🤷‍♂

[@timdecoursey287]

Red Wings have won it 11. That's the most of any American teams. For a while, they did have Gordie Howe, who was considered the best player of all time until Wayne Gretzky came along. The team did go for about 40 years without a cup win from the 50s to the 90s but they won four from 97 to 08. We're bad again but on the rise lol. Montreal hasn't won since 1993 and the Maple Leafs haven't won since 1967, just to show how long this has been around.

[@jwestphal1978]

Lord Stanley helped bring the sport indoors as well if I'm not mistaken.

[@davidhowland6384]

learning rules of cricket and rouders and football soccer and rugby .

[@harleyrandygreen3597]

One player in the 90's thought it was a good idea to take the Stanley Cup out on a lake so it can waterski. Wasn't a good idea.

[@burnout_2017]

All true.....and many many more they didnt mention

[@supersasukemaniac]

The cup itself was on fire, in a way. I think they wadded up newspaper in the bowl and set that on fire, it started to spread quickly, and they peed on it to put it out before it damaged the steel.

[@sigsaucer2582]

Brett Hull made jello in the bowl of the cup after the stars won the cup.

[@andrewdouris6035]

BTW , almost every player on that 40's Rangers team was Canadian