The Stanley Cup – a 34.5-pound trophy that gets around.
Instagram worthy adventures,
The Last Night’s Game Team
The Stanley Cup is likely the most recognized trophy in North America and it is the trophy the NHL (National Hockey League) Champions receive. As we speak, the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning are vying for the Stanley Cup in the NHL Finals. Each player on the winning team gets to spend a day with the trophy doing whatever they want. The trophy also has its own Twitter account so you can follow its wild, sometimes spring break-like adventures.
1. Much like you the famed trophy had a travel hiatus in 2020. The trophy that usually racks up serious frequent flier miles was stuck at home for six months due to COVID, the longest stretch in its history without travel. THERE GOES THE AIRLINE STATUS
2. The trophy and its handler since 1989, Phil Pritchard, have spent a lot of time with the military but in 2007, the Cup made its first visit to a combat zone when it visited Afghanistan. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
3. Seriously, the Cup has seen it all including a strip club where it was used as part of a performance, a player’s shower, a star-studded Malibu house party and a proposal and it has been used as a baptismal font, a horse trough and a dog bowl. THE TROPHY HAS LIVED A FULL LIFE
4. You’d think players would treat the coveted trophy with respect but it’s been left on the side of the road, set on fire and then peed on to put out the fire and forgotten in a garden after a photo shoot. SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE
5. Spending the day with the trophy is an out of this world experience. The trophy spent time on the flight deck of the space shuttle Atlantis. INTERGALACTIC HOCKEY ANYONE?
