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Moments after they win the National Hockey League championship, the delirious members of the victorious team invariably pass the Stanley Cup around the ice and essentially make out with the silver trophy. It's pretty gross. After all, don't these guys know that during its 116-year history, liters of backwash have sloshed around the Cup as countless players and fans chugged champagne out of this glorified keg? Don't they know that at least one dog - and a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred - have slurped chow from the Cup? And that both infants and inebriated adults have literally treated...
...Canada, purchased the Cup for $50 in 1893, he never anticipated that a goalie would use it as a popcorn bowl in a movie theater, like the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur did over a century later. Stanley bought the Cup as a prize for the best amateur hockey club in Canada. The NHL took control of it in 1926, but the tradition of abuse started at the outset. In 1905, a member of the Ottawa Silver Seven drop-kicked the Cup into a canal. The boys kept the party going through the night, and rescued the Cup the next...
Read about Joel Stein's Day with the Stanley Cup Read "Give Hockey (and Me) One More Shot" Read "A Friend of the Hockey Court...
...former teammates who knew Falcone when he was an 18 year-old center on Harvard’s Varsity Hockey team, he was a wide-eyed teenager from small-town Minnesota, easily dazzled by Boston’s big city lights...
...charged with the task of introducing Falcone to city life during his trip to Cambridge as a recruit, remembers him as a teenager who was “very much from Chisholm, Minnesota,” a town of 5,000 people that made up in hockey obsession for what it lacked in population...