Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Congrats to Dave Andreychuk and the Tampa Bay Lightning!
Permit us three hockey-related posts in three years.
Well, we said we wanted Dave Andreychuk to get the Cup, and not only did he win it, he put it in his car and took it home!
From the St. Petersburg Times:
A little explanation for those readers who don't follow hockey:
The Stanley Cup, at 111 years, is the oldest sports trophy given in North America. And it is unique in pro sports (as far as we know) in that every player on the team that wins it gets his name engraved on it. We kid you not. That's what all the rings on it are.
So if you win the Cup, your name goes on it--alongside names like Bobby Orr, Maurice Richard, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretsky, etc.
And in case that's not cool enough, every player on the winning team gets to take the Cup anywhere they want for at least a day. Some guys bring it home to show the town -- say, Moose Jaw Saskatshewan or New York, New York -- some guys take it fishing. Rumor has it that years ago (before the NHL realized they'd better send a curator along with it) one team took turns jumping out of a hotel window into the pool below with it.
Pretty damn cool.
Well, we said we wanted Dave Andreychuk to get the Cup, and not only did he win it, he put it in his car and took it home!
From the St. Petersburg Times:
You gotta love this game. You win the Stanley Cup, and they let you take it home.[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
Dave Andreychuk places the Stanley Cup into the back seat of his vehicle in the player's parking lot at 3:35 a.m. today after enjoying the celebration.
A little explanation for those readers who don't follow hockey:
The Stanley Cup, at 111 years, is the oldest sports trophy given in North America. And it is unique in pro sports (as far as we know) in that every player on the team that wins it gets his name engraved on it. We kid you not. That's what all the rings on it are.
So if you win the Cup, your name goes on it--alongside names like Bobby Orr, Maurice Richard, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretsky, etc.
And in case that's not cool enough, every player on the winning team gets to take the Cup anywhere they want for at least a day. Some guys bring it home to show the town -- say, Moose Jaw Saskatshewan or New York, New York -- some guys take it fishing. Rumor has it that years ago (before the NHL realized they'd better send a curator along with it) one team took turns jumping out of a hotel window into the pool below with it.
Pretty damn cool.
