The Winnipeg Maple Leafs , or Maple Leaf Hockey Club , were a professional men's ice hockey team in Winnipeg, Manitoba . Winnipeg Maple Leafs played in the Manitoba Professional Hockey League from 1907–1909.
128-595: In March 1908, as 1907–08 MPHL champions, the team challenged for the Stanley Cup but lost over two games to the Montreal Wanderers , 5-11 and 3-9. The 1908 Winnipeg Maple Leafs team included such players as Barney Holden , Jack Winchester , Lorne Campbell , Hamby Shore and Fred Lake . Tommy Dunderdale , member of the Hockey Hall of Fame , played three games for the team and scored one goal in
256-625: A ball hockey game versus Canadian soldiers on a concrete rink in the Afghan desert. The Cup has also been mistreated, misplaced, or otherwise misused on numerous occasions. One legend is that in 1905 , a member of the Ottawa Senators (also known as the "Ottawa Silver Seven") tried to drop kick the Cup across the Rideau Canal after the championship banquet. The attempt failed, and
384-485: A helicopter flown by Guy Lafleur . The Cup has experienced Los Angeles celebrity glamour, having been taken on a roller coaster ride at Universal Studios Hollywood , and to the Hollywood Sign by Luc Robitaille . It also took part in the 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade as part of Anaheim city's float , accompanied by player Brad May as his Anaheim Ducks team were the current reigning champions. It
512-512: A Cup-winning team until joining the Avalanche. When captain Joe Sakic received the trophy, he did not hoist it, but instead immediately handed it to Bourque for him to hoist. Sakic then followed Bourque in hoisting the trophy. Another tradition (or rather superstition) that is prevalent among today's NHL players is that no player should touch the Cup itself until his team has rightfully won
640-653: A Stanley Cup champion team is Kenora , Ontario; the town had a population of about 4,000 when the Kenora Thistles captured the Cup in January 1907. Led by future Hall of Famers Art Ross and "Bad" Joe Hall , the Thistles defeated the Montreal Wanderers in a two-game, total goals challenge series. The Thistles successfully defended the Cup once, against a team from Brandon, Manitoba . In March 1907,
768-458: A Stanley Cup championship game, nor did he ever present the Cup. Although his term as Governor General ended in September 1893, he was forced to return to England on July 15. In April of that year, his older brother Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby died, and Stanley succeeded him as the 16th Earl of Derby . During the challenge cup period, none of the leagues that played for the trophy had
896-676: A co-owner of the Calgary Flames in 1989. In 2001 , Charlotte Grahame , the Colorado Avalanche 's Senior Director of Hockey Administration, had her name engraved on the trophy. Her son John later had his name engraved as a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004 . Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup There are many traditions and anecdotes associated with
1024-617: A cooler at a party, and Brett Hull locked himself out of his vehicle with the Cup inside while out shopping with Mike Modano . Tomas Holmström 's cousin, Robert, used the trophy to baptize his seven-week-old daughter during Tomas' day with the Cup. Clark Gillies of the New York Islanders allowed his dog to eat out of the Cup. Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings had his two older boys drink chocolate milk out of
1152-511: A formal playoff system to decide their respective champions; whichever team finished in first place after the regular season won the league title. However, in 1894, four teams out of the five-team AHAC tied for the championship with records of 5–3–0. The AHAC had no tie-breaking system. After extensive negotiations and Quebec's withdrawal from the championship competition, it was decided that a three-team tournament would take place in Montreal, with
1280-497: A good thing if there were a challenge cup which should be held from year to year by the champion hockey team in the Dominion [of Canada]. There does not appear to be any such outward sign of a championship at present, and considering the general interest which matches now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup which shall be held from year to year by
1408-462: A monument near Yekaterinburg marking the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia. It went west to Kyiv , Ukraine , for the first time with Tampa Bay Game-7 hero Ruslan Fedotenko ; Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Anton Babchuk returned with it, again to Kyiv. After 114 years, the Cup made a trip in April 2006 back to London , where it was originally purchased. A plaque was placed at the site of
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#17327831426621536-466: A new band was added almost every year that the trophy was awarded, earning the nickname "Stovepipe Cup" due to the unnatural height of all the bands. In 1947, the cup size was reduced, but not all the large rings were the same size. In 1958, the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a five-band barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. Every 13 years when the bottom band of the Stanley Cup
1664-439: A new champion was crowned, but winning teams currently get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. Every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands, which is unusual among trophies. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, so some names must be omitted. Between 1924 and 1940,
1792-474: A player and seven times as management for a total of seventeen times. Twenty women have had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup. The first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup is Marguerite Norris , who won the Cup as the president of the Detroit Red Wings in 1954 and 1955. The only Canadian woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup is Sonia Scurfield who won the Cup as
1920-629: A private day with the Cup, a tradition that started with the New Jersey Devils in 1995 wherein each member of the Cup-winning team is allowed personal possession of the Cup for a day. It is always accompanied by at least one representative from the Hockey Hall of Fame . The tradition became subject of an ESPN marketing campaign which showed players using the Cup: Ken Daneyko ate cereal out of it, Derian Hatcher used it as
2048-549: A record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win it, doing so in 1993 ; the Detroit Red Wings have won it 11 times, the most of any United States–based NHL team, most recently in 2008 . The current holders of the cup are the Florida Panthers after their victory in 2024 . More than 3,000 different names, including the names of over 1,300 players, had been engraved on it by 2017. After
2176-743: A resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) to allow professional players to play alongside amateurs. The Cup trustees agreed to open the challenges to professional teams, because the ECAHA was the top hockey league in Canada at the time. The first professional competition came one month later during the Wanderers' two-game, total goals challenge series, which they won 17 goals to 5. The smallest municipality to produce
2304-520: A result of the 1953–1965 band only containing 12 teams prior to its removal), depending on the order they are engraved on the relevant band. There have only been four official Stanley Cup engravers. The fourth and current one, Montreal silversmith Louise St. Jacques, has held the position since 1988. Currently, the Cup stands at 89.5 centimetres ( 35 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches) tall and weighs 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 kilograms ( 34 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb). By its 125th anniversary in 2017,
2432-474: A rose bowl, made in Sheffield , England, and sold by London silversmith G. R. Collis and Company (now Boodle and Dunthorne Jewellers), for ten guineas , equal to ten and a half pounds sterling, US$ 48.67, which is equal to $ 1,650 in 2023 dollars. He had the words "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup" engraved on one side of the outside rim, and "From Stanley of Preston" on the other side. The name "Stanley Cup"
2560-449: A second band onto the Cup. Despite the new room, the 1910 Wanderers and the 1911 Senators did not put their names on the Cup. The 1915 Vancouver Millionaires became the second team to engrave players' names, this time inside the bowl along its sides. The 1918 Millionaires eventually filled the band added by the 1909 Senators. The 1915 Ottawa Senators, the 1916 Portland Rosebuds and the 1918 Vancouver Millionaires all engraved their names on
2688-471: A second band), teams left their mark on the bowl itself. The 1907 Montreal Wanderers became the first club to record their name on the bowl's interior surface, and the first champion to record the names of 20 members of their team. In 1908, for reasons unknown, the Wanderers, despite having turned aside four challengers, did not record their names on the Cup. The next year, the Ottawa Senators added
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#17327831426622816-629: 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 four bands below it are slid up one place and a new blank band added to the bottom. The first winning team engraved on the newest band is thus, in theory (see Engraving section below) , displayed on the trophy for the next 65 years. It has been referred to as The Cup , Lord Stanley's Cup , The Holy Grail , or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug . The Stanley Cup
2944-657: Is followed by Jean Beliveau and Yvan Cournoyer of the Canadiens with ten championships, Claude Provost of the Canadiens with nine, and three players tied with eight: Red Kelly (four with the Red Wings, four with the Leafs, the most for any player who was not a member of the Canadiens) and Canadiens players Jacques Lemaire , Maurice Richard . Beliveau's name appears on the Cup more than any other individual, ten times as
3072-600: Is named after Lord Stanley of Preston , the Governor General of Canada , who donated it as an award to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. The entire Stanley family supported the sport, the sons and daughters all playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to the Montreal Hockey Club , and winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for
3200-519: Is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions , the oldest of which is the winning team drinking champagne from it. Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 106 times by 21 current NHL teams and five teams no longer in existence. It was not awarded in 1919 because of the Spanish flu epidemic and in 2005 because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout . It was held by nine different teams between 1893 and 1914. The Montreal Canadiens have won it
3328-730: Is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and
3456-462: Is topped with a copy of the original bowl, made of a silver and nickel alloy. It has a height of 89.5 centimetres ( 35 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) and weighs 15.6 kilograms ( 34 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb). Like the Grey Cup , and unlike the trophies awarded by the other major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made every year. The winners originally kept it until
3584-720: The Chicago Blackhawks , Detroit Cougars (now called the Detroit Red Wings ), and New York Rangers joined the NHL. With the NHL now firmly established in the largest markets of the Northeastern United States, and with the Western teams having been stripped of their best players, the PHL was deemed to be a "minor league" unworthy of challenging the NHL for hockey supremacy. The PHL lasted only two seasons. Over
3712-631: The Clarkson Cup was created instead. Meanwhile, a group in Ontario, also known as the "Wednesday Nighters", filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court, claiming that the Cup trustees had overstepped their bounds in signing the 1947 agreement with the NHL, and therefore must award the trophy regardless of the lockout. On February 7, 2006, a settlement was reached in which the trophy could be awarded to non-NHL teams should
3840-593: The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), and became the founder of ice hockey in Great Britain. Arthur and Algernon persuaded their father to donate a trophy to be "an outward and visible sign of the hockey championship". Stanley sent the following message to the victory celebration held on March 18, 1892, at Ottawa's Russell House Hotel for the three-time champion Ottawa Hockey Club : I have for some time been thinking that it would be
3968-764: The Ottawa Senators touched and picked up the Wales Trophy, respectively, but Anaheim Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer never came close to the Campbell Bowl; the Ducks won the Stanley Cup in five games. In 2008, neither the Pittsburgh Penguins ' Sidney Crosby nor the Red Wings' Nicklas Lidstrom touched their respective conference trophies; the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup that year. The following year, however, Crosby decided to touch
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4096-463: The Stanley Cup . The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. It is commonly referred to as simply "The Cup", "The Holy Grail" or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as "Lord Stanley's Mug". Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues in
4224-561: The Vegas Golden Knights running the trophy through a dishwasher, cleaning it up after a summer of day-with-a-player activities in preparation for the 2023-2024 NHL season. The Cup first left North America in 1996 when it went to Sweden with Peter Forsberg ; he took it to Stockholm as well as to his hometown Örnsköldsvik . In Russia, it has been to Red Square and a soccer game at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow , and to
4352-642: The Victoria Cougars won the Cup, the last team outside the NHL to do so. The WHL folded in 1926 and was quickly replaced by the Prairie Hockey League . However, in the meantime, the NHL (which had entered the U.S. only two years before) bought up the contracts of most of the WHL's players and largely used them to stock the rosters of three new U.S. teams. In what would turn out to be its most significant expansion of its pre- Original Six era,
4480-478: The world champions. The Cup was awarded every year until 2005, when a labour dispute between the NHL's owners and the NHL Players Association (the union that represents the players) led to the cancellation of the 2004–05 season . As a result, no Cup champion was crowned for the first time since the flu pandemic in 1919. The lockout was controversial among many fans, who questioned whether
4608-419: The 1907–08 season. Joe Hall , also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, played two games for the club in the 1908–09 season and scored two goals. This Manitoba -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Canadian ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup ( French : La Coupe Stanley )
4736-533: The 1963 Stanley Cup Finals). There are a few exceptions: In what would be Wayne Gretzky 's final Cup win and final game as a member of the Edmonton Oilers , he gathered his teammates, coaches, trainers, and others from the Oilers organization to join at centre ice for an impromptu team photo with the trophy. This tradition has been continued by every subsequent Stanley Cup champion. The 1993 championship
4864-458: The 1974 Flyers as mentioned earlier. One of the most recognized trophies in professional sports in the US and Canada, the Cup has logged more than 640,000 kilometres (400,000 mi) during the past five seasons alone, due to the tradition of giving the players on the winning team a day of celebration with the trophy during the summer off-season following the playoffs. Players have unofficially had
4992-512: The AHAC, Montreal was the best team in Canada. Naturally, the Ottawas were upset by the decision because there had been no challenge games scheduled and because the trustees failed to convey the rules on how the Cup was to be awarded prior to the start of the season. As a result, the Cup trustees issued more specific rules on how the trophy should be defended and awarded: Lord Stanley never saw
5120-679: The Campbell Bowl for the Golden Knights, becoming the first player to pick up the trophy on the ice since Iginla 14 years earlier. Capitals superstar Alexander Ovechkin skated the Prince of Wales Trophy with his teammates, then won the Conn Smythe Trophy after leading Washington to the Stanley Cup, its first championship in franchise history. The Golden Knights reversed course in 2023 after captain Mark Stone refused to touch
5248-693: The Campbell Bowl in 1980–81). However, in 1994, Stephane Matteau , then of the New York Rangers , admitted that he tapped the Wales Trophy with his stick's blade before the overtime period in game seven of the Eastern Conference Final. Matteau subsequently scored the game-winning goal in double overtime against the New Jersey Devils . Following the game, Mark Messier , the captain of the Rangers, picked up and raised
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5376-716: The Campbell Bowl in 1999 and 2000 with Derian Hatcher as the captain; in the former season, the Stars won the Cup. But when the Stars won again in 2020, captain Jamie Benn refused to touch the trophy. Similarly, the Montreal Canadiens ' captain Guy Carbonneau had hoisted the Wales Trophy in 1993 and went on to win the Cup, but when they won the semifinal round in 2021, captain Shea Weber refused to touch
5504-665: The Campbell Bowl one year later. One possible reason for Crosby lifting the trophy is that the Penguins have had good luck winning the Stanley Cup after lifting the Wales trophy; this was evident when Mario Lemieux lifted the Wales en route to the Penguins' 1991 and 1992 Cup wins. In 2010, Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards picked up the Wales Trophy, while Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews did not touch
5632-552: The Campbell Bowl, and during the Finals, the trophy was unveiled before the start of game three (the Kings lost the series in five games, including three overtime losses). In 2018, both conference champions, the Vegas Golden Knights and Washington Capitals , picked up the Campbell Bowl and Prince of Wales Trophy, respectively, marking the first time since 2002 both conference championship trophies were skated. Deryk Engelland accepted
5760-662: The Campbell Bowl. In both cases, the Stars and Canadiens lost in the Cup Finals to the Lightning. The Colorado Avalanche , led by then-captain Joe Sakic , had previously touched the Campbell Bowl en route to their 1996 and 2001 Cup wins. So when the team won the Campbell again in 2022, captain Gabriel Landeskog elected to touch the Campbell Bowl. The Avalanche ended up winning the Stanley Cup that year, defeating
5888-449: The Campbell Bowl. The Blackhawks went on to defeat the Flyers in six games for the 2010 Stanley Cup. Subsequently, between 2011 and 2015, none of the Stanley Cup finalists touched either the Campbell or the Wales trophies. The 2012 Los Angeles Kings , after defeating the Phoenix Coyotes in five games, went so far as leaving the Campbell Bowl in Phoenix. Instead Tim Leiweke , President and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (the parent of
6016-403: The Campbell Bowl; they eventually lost to the Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Finals, whose captain Rod Brind'Amour also refused to touch the Wales Trophy. After the Oilers won the Campbell Bowl in 2024, captain Connor McDavid stuck to recent trends and refused to hoist the trophy. Like in 2006, however, the Oilers lost in the Stanley Cup Finals. Five of the last seven Stanley Cup champions from
6144-416: The Campbell Bowl; they eventually won the Stanley Cup that year. In 2019, neither Boston Bruins' captain Zdeno Chára nor St. Louis Blues ' captain Alex Pietrangelo touched their respective conference trophies. This was the first time since 2015 that neither conference championship trophy was hoisted. In 2015, Lightning captain Steven Stamkos followed Andreychuk's example from 2004 by refusing to touch
6272-406: The Cup came the next year by the Winnipeg Victorias , the champions of the Manitoba Hockey League. On February 14, 1896, the Winnipeg squad defeated the champions 2–0 and became the first team outside the AHAC to win the Cup. As the prestige of winning the Cup grew, so did the need to attract top players. Only nine months after winning the Cup, in March 1906, the Montreal Wanderers pushed through
6400-403: The Cup in 2006 . After the Chicago Blackhawks win in 2010 the Cup appeared in the 2010 Chicago Gay Pride Parade , with team representative defenceman Brent Sopel . Sopel appeared to honor his friend, Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke , Burke's late son, Brendan and the Burkes' example of family support and tolerance. During decommissioning of the Space Shuttle Atlantis ,
6528-447: The Cup in 1994, number one was "My friend, you can't drink beer out of a Nobel Prize!" Another tradition is the on-ice presentation of the Cup by the NHL commissioner to the captain of the winning team after the series-winning victory, and the subsequent carrying of the trophy around the rink by each member of the victorious club. This differs from the championship trophy ceremonies in the other three major professional sports leagues in
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#17327831426626656-448: The Cup in his place. The 1998 championship was won by the defending champions Detroit Red Wings. The previous year, several days after their first Stanley Cup in 42 years , Vladimir Konstantinov had been paralyzed in an automobile accident that also paralyzed team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov. As Bettman gave the Cup to Red Wings' captain Steve Yzerman , he hoisted it before putting it on Konstantinov's lap and helping him parade with
6784-410: The Cup in the event the 2012–13 season were cancelled, which it was not. In 2007, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) formalized the " Triple Gold Club ", the group of players and coaches who have won an Olympic Games gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup. The term had first entered popular use following the 2002 Winter Olympics , which saw the addition of
6912-477: The Cup since the Montreal Canadiens did so in 1993). The Cup has appeared on The Pat McAfee Show , Corner Gas , the Late Show with David Letterman , Meet the Press with Tim Russert , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon . It has served as the baptismal font for Sylvain Lefebvre 's daughter. The Cup has even gained experience as an "actor". It has appeared in several scenes of
7040-401: The Cup to his home country of Slovenia and hoisted it atop Bled Castle after the Los Angeles Kings won that year. The Stanley Cup went to Port Dover, Ontario , with Jassen Cullimore when the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Cup. He was the fourth NHLer to take the Cup to this small hockey town on the shore of Lake Erie . It went to Simcoe, Ontario with Rob Blake when the Colorado Avalanche won
7168-499: The Cup visited the orbiter's flight deck after being taken to Florida. Jeremy Jacobs , the owner of the 2011 NHL champion Boston Bruins, took the Cup to Florida for employees involved in the decommissioning to view and photograph. On May 7, 2016, the morning of the Kentucky Derby , the NHL brought the Cup to Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky for a photo session with race favorite Nyquist , named after then-Detroit Red Wings player Gustav Nyquist . Nyquist would go on to win
7296-459: The Cup was not retrieved until the next day; the canal was still frozen over. The Ottawas had been celebrating their decisive Stanley Cup win over the Dawson City Nuggets . Several of the Ottawa players were also members of the Ottawa Football Club . However, Bill Westwick , Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick , and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened. No contemporary reports support
7424-424: The Cup. Adding to this superstition is some players' choice to neither touch nor hoist the conference trophies ( Clarence S. Campbell Bowl and Prince of Wales Trophy ) when these series have been won; the players feel that the Stanley Cup is the true championship trophy, and only it should be hoisted. New York Islanders captain Denis Potvin hoisted the Wales Trophy during the 1982 and 1983 playoffs en route to
7552-426: The Cup. One year later, the Montreal HC and the Montreal Victorias, the two remaining amateur teams, left the ECAHA, and the ECAHA dropped "Amateur" from their name to become a professional league. In 1910, the National Hockey Association (NHA) was formed. The NHA soon proved it was the best in Canada, as it kept the Cup for the next four years. Prior to 1912, challenges could take place at any time or place, given
7680-437: The Cup. A parade was held in his honor, and a private party was thrown for family and friends. Assistant Coach Colin Campbell took it to his hometown Tillsonburg, Ontario after the New York Rangers won in 1994. Daniel Cleary took the Cup to his hometown of Harbour Grace , Newfoundland. As the first Newfoundlander to win the Cup, he attracted an estimated crowd of 27,000 to the tiny community of just over 3,000. The Cup went to
7808-439: The Cup. Also included was the 1918–19 no decision between the Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans. Since 1958, the Cup has undergone several minor alterations. The original collar and bowl were too brittle, and were replaced in 1963 and 1969, respectively. The modern one-piece Cup design was introduced in 1958, when the old barrel was replaced with a five-band barrel, each of which could contain 13 winning teams. Although
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#17327831426627936-424: The Cup. By this time, all Cup trustees were longtime NHL loyalists, and under the direction of NHL president Clarence Campbell the WHA's challenge for the Cup was blocked. However, notwithstanding the aforementioned legal obligation, the NHL (considering not only the WHA's presence but also the rising caliber of European ice hockey leagues) quietly stopped calling its champions the world champions . Nevertheless,
8064-410: The Cup. In 2015, Chico Resch , 1979-80 Stanley Cup champion with the New York Islanders, was arranged for the opportunity to spend his day with the Trophy, an honor that was unavailable in his playing days. This happened upon his retirement as a color commentator for New Jersey Devils. A 2023 promo ad for ESPN 's SportsCenter showed Stanley Cup champions Jack Eichel and Jonathan Marchessault of
8192-445: The Cup. Sweetland and Ross first presented the trophy in 1893 to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association on behalf of the affiliated Montreal Hockey Club, the champions of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC), since they "defeated all comers during the late season, including the champions of the Ontario Association" (Ottawa). Sweetland and Ross also believed that the AHAC was the top league, and as first-place finishers in
8320-438: The Derby. When the Washington Capitals won the Cup in 2018, team captain Alex Ovechkin and his teammates took the Cup around Washington, DC and celebrated with the team's fans. Among the many locations where Ovechkin took the Cup included other sporting events and public squares. On May 2, 2007, the Stanley Cup arrived in Kandahar on a Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Seventeen former players played
8448-432: The Devils would go on to defeat the Dallas Stars (who touched but did not lift the Campbell Bowl) in the Stanley Cup Finals. Stevens also lifted the Wales trophy en route to the Devils' 1995 and 2003 Stanley Cup wins. In 2002 the Carolina Hurricanes hoisted the Wales Trophy after they won their conference title; the Hurricanes lost their Finals series with the Detroit Red Wings four games to one. Steve Yzerman, captain of
8576-437: The East and the West each year, with alternating games played according to NHA and PCHA rules. The PCHA's Vancouver Millionaires won the 1915 series three games to none in a best-of-five series. Prior to organized ice hockey expanding to any serious extent outside Canada, the concept that the Stanley Cup champion ought to be recognized as the world champion was already firmly established – Stanley Cup winners were claiming
8704-439: The Eastern Conference have picked up the Prince of Wales Trophy. The two exceptions were the 2011 Bruins, captained by Chára, and the 2024 Panthers, captained by Barkov. This quote, written by Hockey Hall of Fame Philadelphia Flyers coach Fred Shero on the chalkboard in the team's locker room at the Spectrum before game 6 of the 1974 finals, which the Flyers won, has become synonymous with Stanley Cup-winning teams, particularly
8832-412: The Kings), drove the trophy in his car trunk from Phoenix to Los Angeles and showed it to the 10,000+ fans that waited at LAX Airport to show their support to their Stanley Cup finalists, who went on to win the Stanley Cup. This was in marked contrast to 1993, when the Kings had defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games to reach their first Cup Finals, where Wayne Gretzky and the team celebrated with
8960-399: The Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11, 1888, he and his family became highly enthusiastic about ice hockey. Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal 's 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club . The Montreal Gazette reported that he "expressed his great delight with
9088-412: The Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans to cancel the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals after game five, marking the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded. The series was tied at 2–2–1, but the final game was never played because Montreal Manager George Kennedy and players Joe Hall , Billy Coutu , Jack McDonald , and Newsy Lalonde were hospitalized with influenza . Hall died four days after
9216-516: The Montreal Canadiens, en route to celebrate their win at owner Leo Dandurand 's home, left it by the road after repairing a flat tire. The Cup was recovered exactly where they left it. In 1925, Lynn and Muzz Patrick , the sons of Victoria Cougars manager-coach Lester Patrick , discovered the Cup in the basement of their home, and scratched their names on it with a nail. In 1940, their names were properly engraved on it as members of
9344-589: The NHL came under pressure to allow its champion to play the WHA champion. Eventually, following the establishment of the Canada Cup as the first best-on-best international hockey tournament, NHL president Clarence Campbell (who was a vocal opponent of the tournament) made public overtures to establish a true world professional championship in ice hockey, "just like the World Series ". Under Campbell's proposal,
9472-458: The NHL champion would have played the WHA champion for the right to face the European champion. In the end, Campbell's proposal went nowhere – eventually, the NHL resolved the WHA challenge by agreeing to merge with its rival , by which time the older league had quietly withdrawn its support for the idea. Neither the NHL nor any other professional hockey league makes a claim to its champions being
9600-402: The NHL had exclusive control over the Cup. A website known as freestanley.com (since closed) was launched, asking fans to write to the Cup trustees and urge them to return to the original Challenge Cup format. Adrienne Clarkson , then Governor General of Canada, alternately proposed that the Cup be presented to the top women's hockey team in lieu of the NHL season. This idea was so unpopular that
9728-506: The NHL to inscribe the name of Vladimir Konstantinov , whose career ended after a car accident on June 13, 1997, on the Stanley Cup after Detroit defended their title in 1998. With the Montreal Canadiens having won by far the most Cup championships of any team, the list of the players who have been engraved on the Cup the most often is dominated by Montreal players. Henri Richard of the Canadiens, with his name engraved eleven times, played on more Stanley Cup champions than any other player. He
9856-669: The Ottawa team receiving a bye to the final because they were the only road team. On March 17, in the first Stanley Cup playoff game, the Montreal Hockey Club (Montreal HC) defeated the Montreal Victorias, 3–2. Five days later, in the first Stanley Cup Finals game, Montreal HC beat the Ottawa Hockey Club 3–1. In 1895, Queen's University was the first official challenger for the Cup, although it
9984-651: The Panthers won the Prince of Wales Trophy again in 2024, Barkov and his teammates refused to touch the trophy; they would finally win their first Stanley Cup that year. During the 1980s dynasty years with Wayne Gretzky , the Edmonton Oilers touched the Campbell Bowl each time they won it and went on to win the Stanley Cup in five of six occasions. However, when the Oilers clinched the Western Conference title in 2006, captain Jason Smith refused to touch
10112-474: The Prince of Wales Trophy. However, the Lightning lost to the Blackhawks in the Cup Finals, so when the team won their third Eastern Conference championship five seasons later, Stamkos changed course and touched the trophy. Stamkos likewise touched the Wales trophy again in 2021 and 2022. The Lightning defied superstition by winning both the 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup. The Dallas Stars had previously touched
10240-488: The Red Wings during their 1997, 1998, and 2002 Stanley Cup victories, picked up the Campbell Bowl prior to that year's Cup Finals. The superstition held true in 2004, as Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames grabbed the Campbell Bowl, but Dave Andreychuk of the Tampa Bay Lightning refused to touch the Wales Trophy; the Lightning won the Stanley Cup in seven games. In 2007, Daniel Alfredsson and Wade Redden of
10368-415: The Stanley Cup being mistreated in some way. It is the most-travelled championship trophy in the world. One of the oldest traditions, started by the 1896 Winnipeg Victorias , dictates that the winning team drink champagne from the top bowl after their victory. During a Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten list entitled "Perks of Winning the Stanley Cup", which happened after the New York Rangers won
10496-709: The Stanley Cup continued styling themselves as the world champions just like in baseball. Two years later, the Rosebuds became the first American-based team to play in the Stanley Cup Finals, although all its players were Canadians. In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first American-based team to win the Cup. After that season, the NHA dissolved, and the National Hockey League (NHL) took its place. The Spanish influenza epidemic forced
10624-519: The Stanley Cup had had 3,177 names engraved on it; of those, 1,331 belong to players. Currently, to qualify for automatic engraving, a player: However, since 1994 teams have been permitted to petition the NHL Commissioner , to be considered on a case-by-case basis, to engrave a player's name on the cup if the player was unavailable to play due to "extenuating circumstances". For example, the Detroit Red Wings received special permission from
10752-628: The Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), the two main professional ice hockey organizations, reached an agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. It was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and then the de jure NHL championship prize in 1947. There are actually three Stanley Cups:
10880-414: The Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. However, on March 18, Trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of
11008-539: The Stanley Cup. In the Chicago Stadium , in the spring of 1961, the Montreal Canadiens were losing the final game of a playoff series to the Chicago Black Hawks. A Montreal fan (Ken Kilander) in the stands was upset, so he left his seat, ran down to the front lobby and broke into the glass showcase where the Stanley Cup was on display. He grabbed the Cup, hoisted it over his shoulders and made for
11136-482: The United States and Canada , a new Stanley Cup is not made annually; the champions keep the Cup until a new champion is crowned. It is also one of only two trophies in professional North American sports which has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved upon it, the other being the CFL's Grey Cup . It is at the centre of several legends and superstitions. Many of these anecdotes involve
11264-491: The United States and Canada , where the commissioners of Major League Baseball , National Basketball Association , and National Football League instead present the Commissioner's Trophy , Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy , and Vince Lombardi Trophy , respectively, to the owners of the winning team. The on-ice presentation of the Cup is typically preceded by the presentation of the Conn Smythe Trophy , in contrast to
11392-677: The Wales Trophy after it was awarded to the team. After winning the Western Conference, Vancouver Canucks captain Trevor Linden lifted the Campbell trophy. The Rangers prevailed over the Canucks in a seven-game series to win the Cup. Scott Stevens and Martin Brodeur hoisted the Wales trophy as well in 2000, after the New Jersey Devils came back from a 3–1 series deficit to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in seven games;
11520-619: The Wales Trophy, and the Penguins went on to win the Stanley Cup. They did the same thing again in winning the 2016 and 2017 Stanley Cups; conversely, the San Jose Sharks ' Joe Pavelski stayed true to the general tradition and did not touch the Campbell Bowl. Pittsburgh then went on to defeat San Jose in six games to win the Cup. The same occurred to the Nashville Predators when captain Mike Fisher refused to touch
11648-574: The Wanderers challenged the Thistles to a rematch. Despite an improved lineup, the Thistles lost the Cup to Montreal. In 1908, the Allan Cup was introduced as the trophy for Canada's amateurs, and the Stanley Cup started to become a symbol of professional hockey supremacy. In that same year, the first all-professional team, the Toronto Trolley Leaguers from the newly created Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL), competed for
11776-491: The appropriate rink conditions, and it was common for teams to defend the Cup numerous times during the year. In 1912, Cup trustees declared that it was to be defended only at the end of the champion team's regular season. In 1914, the Victoria Aristocrats from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) challenged the NHA and Cup champion Toronto Blueshirts . A controversy erupted when a letter arrived from
11904-501: The arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted. Several days later, trustee Foran wrote to NHA president Quinn that the trustees are "perfectly satisfied to allow the representatives of the three pro leagues (NHA, PCHA, and Maritime ) to make all arrangements each season as to
12032-455: The bands were originally designed to fill up during the Cup's centennial year in 1992, the names of the 1965 Montreal Canadiens were engraved over a larger area than allotted and thus there are 12 teams on that band instead of 13. When the bands were all filled in 1991, the top band of the large barrel was preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and a new blank band was added to the bottom so the Stanley Cup would not grow further. Another new band
12160-748: The cancelled game, and the series was abandoned. The format for the Stanley Cup Finals changed in 1922 , with the creation of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Three leagues competed for the Cup: two league champions faced each other for the right to challenge the third champion in the final series. This lasted three seasons as the PCHA and the WCHL later merged to form the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 1925 . In 1924–25
12288-525: The champion New York Rangers. They also urinated in the Cup with teammates. During the 1940–41 NHL season , the mortgage on Madison Square Garden was paid. The management publicly celebrated by burning the mortgage in the Cup. Some fans claimed this act "desecrated" the Cup, leading to the Curse of 1940 , which allegedly caused the Rangers to wait 54 years for another win. In 1957, Maurice "Rocket" Richard chipped both of his front teeth while drinking from
12416-591: The club successfully defending the Cup each time, sweeping the Vancouver Canucks in 1982 and the Edmonton Oilers in 1983. During the Islanders' first two runs to the Cup, no conference championship trophy was presented during the playoffs; instead, the Wales Trophy and the Campbell Bowl were awarded to the teams with the best regular season records in the respective conferences (the Islanders won
12544-469: The crowning of the 2017–18 champions, the Washington Capitals , the band listing the 1953–54 to 1964–65 winners was removed in September 2018, with a new band for the 2017–18 to 2029–30 champions added to the bottom of the cup. Since the introduction of the five-band cup, each engraved team is displayed on the trophy between 52 and 65 years (though in practice, this was reduced by one year as
12672-429: The cup. The NHL has registered trademarks associated with the name and likeness of the Stanley Cup, although there has been dispute as to whether the league has the right to own trademarks associated with a trophy that it does not own. The original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimetres ( 7 + 5 ⁄ 16 in) high and 29 centimetres ( 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter. The current Stanley Cup
12800-479: The exit before he was arrested. In court, he explained his behaviour to the judge: "Your Honor, I was simply bringing the Cup back to Montreal where it belongs." In 1962, the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. During a party after the win, the trophy was dropped in a bonfire and badly damaged. It was repaired at the expense of the team. In 1964, Red Kelly of the Toronto Maple Leafs posed for
12928-616: The first Canadian members. In March 2017, to commemorate the Stanley Cup's 125th anniversary, the original Cup and the current Stanley Cup were the focus of a four-day tour of Ottawa, including a stop at Rideau Hall. The Royal Canadian Mint produced two commemorative coins to mark the anniversary. The first is a roll of Canadian quarters with an image of the Stanley Cup, the word Stanley Cup in English and Coupe Stanley in French with two ice hockey players and "125 years/ ans " on
13056-501: The game of hockey and the expertise of the players". During that time, organized ice hockey in Canada was still in its infancy and only Montreal and Ottawa had anything resembling leagues. Stanley's entire family became active in ice hockey. Two of his sons, Arthur and Algernon, formed a new team called the Ottawa Rideau Hall Rebels . Arthur also played a key role in the formation of what later became known as
13184-485: The lack of any interleague championship. In doing so, the NHL copied a policy that had been adopted by the then still-fledgling National Football League from its start in 1920 (and which the National Basketball Association also asserted upon its founding in 1946). Finally in 1947, the NHL reached an agreement with trustee J. Cooper Smeaton to grant control of the Cup to the NHL, allowing
13312-446: The league not operate for a season. The dispute lasted so long that, by the time it was settled, the NHL had resumed operating for the 2005–06 season , and the Stanley Cup went unclaimed for the 2004–05 season. Furthermore, when another NHL lockout commenced in 2012 the trustees stated that the 2006 agreement did not oblige them to award the Cup in the event of a lost season, and that they were likely to reject any non-NHL challenges for
13440-815: The league to reject challenges from other leagues that may have wished to play for the Cup: This agreement was amended on November 22, 1961, substituting the Governors of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario with the Committee of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario as the group to name the two Canadian trustees, if need be. In the 1970s, the World Hockey Association sought to challenge for
13568-535: The legend, although champagne was drunk from the Cup that night. In 1906, weeks after members of the Montreal Wanderers left it at a photographer's studio, officials learned that the photographer's mother was using the Cup to plant geraniums . In 1907, a Kenora Thistles team manager threatened to throw the Cup into the Lake of the Woods in a dispute over the eligibility of two Thistles players. In 1924, members of
13696-474: The long-running soap opera Guiding Light . It also appeared on Boston Legal where William Shatner knocked it off a balcony, and on the 30 Rock episode " Subway Hero ". It also appeared on Chicago Fire along with the Keeper of the Cup, Phil Pritchard . On a humanitarian note, the Cup visited wounded United States Marines at Camp Lejeune with Glen Wesley after his Carolina Hurricanes won
13824-402: The next two decades other leagues and clubs occasionally issued challenges, but none were accepted by the Cup's trustees. Since 1926, no non-NHL team has played for the Cup, leading it to become the de facto championship trophy of the NHL. In addition, with no major professional hockey league left to challenge it, the NHL began calling its league champions the world champions , notwithstanding
13952-484: 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 whenever the Presentation Cup is not available. While the NHL has maintained control over the trophy itself and its associated trademarks, the NHL does not actually own the trophy but uses it by agreement with the two Canadian trustees of
14080-488: The other three leagues who usually present the World Series MVP , NBA Finals MVP , and Super Bowl MVP awards, respectively, after their championship trophy. Possibly the first time that the Cup was awarded on the ice was to the 1932 Toronto Maple Leafs , and the practice became an annual tradition in the 1950s. Ted Lindsay of the 1950 Cup champion Detroit Red Wings became the first player ( Sid Abel
14208-469: The reverse and an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse using plated steel. The second coin was designed with the Stanley Cup on the reverse and an effigy of Elizabeth II, "Stanley Cup" in English and " Coupe Stanley " in French and "50 dollars" above the effigy. It was made using 99.9% silver. In October 2017, the Lord Stanley's Gift Monument , commemorating the donation of the Stanley Cup,
14336-538: The series of matches to be played for the Cup". One year later, when the Maritime league folded, the NHA and the PCHA concluded a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other for the Cup, similar to baseball 's World Series , which is played between the American League and National League champions. Under the new proposal, the Stanley Cup Finals series alternated between
14464-557: The store where Lord Stanley purchased the Cup. In 2007, the Cup went to Helsinki , Finland , with Anaheim Ducks' forward Teemu Selänne . Tomas Holmström took the trophy to his hometown Piteå in Sweden in the summer of 2008. He used the trophy as a baptismal font for his niece, and also as a serving dish for pitepalt . Boston Bruins' captain Zdeno Chára took the Cup to Slovakia after winning it in 2011. In 2012, Anze Kopitar took
14592-440: The team and its players has been an unbroken annual tradition. Originally, a new band was added each year, causing the trophy to grow in size. The "Stovepipe Cup", as it was nicknamed because of its resemblance to the exhaust pipe of a stove, became unwieldy, so it was redesigned in 1948 as a two-piece cigar-shaped trophy with a removable bowl and collar. This Cup also properly honoured those teams that did not engrave their names on
14720-528: The title of world champions by no later than the turn of the century. After the Portland Rosebuds , an American-based team, joined the PCHA in 1914, the trustees promptly issued a formal statement that the Cup was no longer for the best team in Canada, but now for the best team in the world. Ice hockey in Europe was still in its infancy at this time, so it was without much controversy that winners of
14848-625: The top of Fisher Peak, near Cranbrook , British Columbia and the top of Mount Elbert in Colorado . Brad Richards from Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island took the Stanley Cup out on a fishing boat after the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Cup. It went to an Aboriginal Métis Nation Settlement, and it went to an igloo in Rankin Inlet . It served as the engagement ring bearer for the Tampa Bay Lightning's André Roy while in
14976-476: The trophy even though they did not officially win it under the new PCHA-NHA system. They had won the title of only the previous champion's league and would have been crowned as Cup champions under the old challenge rules. The winners in 1918 and 1920 to 1923 did not put their winning team name on it. No further engraving occurred until 1924, when the Canadiens added a new band to the Cup. Since then, engraving
15104-555: The trophy. The 2001 championship was won by the Colorado Avalanche . Until requesting a trade on March 6, 2000, Ray Bourque had played his entire career with the Boston Bruins . The seventh game of the 2001 Finals was the last of Bourque's 22-year NHL career. Though Bourque reached the Stanley Cup Finals twice with the Bruins in 1988 and 1990 , the Bruins fell both times to the Edmonton Oilers, and Bourque had never been on
15232-530: The two-time defending champion Lightning. The Florida Panthers touched the Prince of Wales Trophy the first two times they won it. In 1996, captain Brian Skrudland hoisted the trophy, in the same year the Avalanche touched the Campbell Bowl. In 2023, captain Aleksander Barkov followed suit and touched the trophy as well. However, the Panthers lost the Stanley Cup Finals both times. After
15360-446: The winning team. I am not quite certain that the present regulations governing the arrangement of matches give entire satisfaction, and it would be worth considering whether they could not be arranged so that each team would play once at home and once at the place where their opponents hail from. Soon afterwards, Stanley purchased what is frequently described as a decorative punch bowl , but which silver expert John Culme identified as
15488-553: Was also a White House guest of Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush , Bill Clinton , George W. Bush , Barack Obama , Donald Trump , and Joe Biden , and it is currently a tradition of the U.S. president to invite the NHL champion if the team is from an American city. It is a similar tradition for the Prime Minister of Canada to invite the winners, if it is a Canadian team that wins, to Ottawa (however, no Canadian team has won
15616-411: Was captain of Red Wings in 1950), upon receiving the Cup, to skate around with it, slightly raised for the crowd. Since then, it has been a tradition to have the captain of the winning team take a lap around the ice first with the trophy hoisted above his head (the hoisting of the Cup above their heads is sometimes credited to Frank Mahovlich of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who was photographed doing so after
15744-563: Was controversial. The Montreal Victorias had won the league title and thus the Stanley Cup, but the challenge match was between the previous year's champion, Montreal HC, and the university squad. The trustees decided that if the Montreal HC won the challenge match, the Victorias would become the Stanley Cup champions. The Montreal HC won the match 5–1 and their cross-town rivals were crowned the champions. The first successful challenge to
15872-626: Was erected in Ottawa at Sparks Street and Elgin Street, near the location of the dinner party announcing the Cup at the Russell House, which has since been demolished. Like the Grey Cup , awarded to the winner of the Canadian Football League , the Stanley Cup is engraved with the names of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff. However, this was not always the case: one of Lord Stanley's original conditions
16000-443: Was given to it as early as May 1, 1893, when an Ottawa Journal article used the name as a title. Originally, Stanley intended that the Cup should be awarded to the top amateur hockey team in Canada, to be decided by the acceptance of a challenge from another team. He made five preliminary regulations: Stanley appointed Sheriff John Sweetland and Philip D. Ross (who went on to serve an unsurpassed 56 years) as trustees of
16128-413: Was scheduled to be added to the bottom of the cup following the 2004–05 season, but was not added because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the 2005–06 champion Carolina Hurricanes were crowned and the new bottom ring was finally added (along with the retiring of the band listing the 1940–41 to 1952–53 champions), the cancelled season was acknowledged with the words "2004–05 Season Not Played". Following
16256-417: Was that each team could, at their own expense, add a ring to the Cup to commemorate their victory. Initially, there was only one base ring, which was attached to the bottom of the original bowl by the Montreal Hockey Club. Clubs engraved their team names, usually in the form "TEAM NAME" "YEAR WON" , on that one ring until it was full in 1902. With no more room to engrave their names (and unwilling to pay for
16384-412: Was won by the Montreal Canadiens. As Gary Bettman presented the Cup to Canadiens' captain Guy Carbonneau , Carbonneau waved to Denis Savard to come join him. Savard, who had played 10 seasons for the Chicago Blackhawks before being traded to Montreal in 1990–91 (the Blackhawks had since been to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1992), had not played in the Cup Finals in his career. Carbonneau let Savard hoist
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