10.)Each player on the winning team gets one day with the Stanley Cup.
9.)Th ere are two Cups: a house Cup, which resides at the Hockey Hall of Fame and a presentation Cup awarded to the players.
8.)Here's how you can tell the difference: to prevent damage the presentation Cup given to the players was augmented with nickel which is sturdier than the all-silver house Cup. Nickel also gives the Cup its shimmer recognizable on television.
7.) The Stanley Cup has room for seven more years worth of engravings. When the bottom ring is filled, the Hockey Hall of Fame will add another ring to the bottom. The top ring, which now lists the 1960s winners, will be put in a vault for safe-keeping.
6.)Sadly, the lockout of 1994-1995 is notated on the Cup. Another reminder of those dark days.
5.) The player whose name appears the most? Henri Richard.
4.) The presentation also contains a few typos. For example, the Boston Bruins inscription for 1967-1968 Stanley Cup winner contains "Q"s where the "O"s should be.
3.) The only man to win a Super Bowl and have his name on the Cup? Owner Edward Debartolo, Jr. who won Super Bowls with San Francisco and Cups with Pittsburgh in the 90s.
2.) The Red Wings Cups of late include the names of pizza mogul Mike Ilitch and his children, each of whom were given menial team tasks--thereby satisfying the requirement that names appearing on the Cup were those employed by the team in some capacity.
1.) The same could not be said of Oilers owner Peter Pocklington, who was rebuffed by the Hall of Fame after attempting to have his father's name on the Cup.
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to add:
- Jean Béliveau's name appears the most of any individual with 17 entries.
- Jacques Plante's name has been misspelled five times.
- New York Islanders 1981 Cup winners was spelled "Ilanders".
- 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.
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