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The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
The original 1892 Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, purchased and donated by Lord Stanley, was physically awarded to the Champions until 1970, [88] and is now displayed in the Vault Room at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario. [88] The authenticated version or "Presentation Cup" was created in 1963 by Montreal silversmith Carl Petersen.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, PC (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908), known as Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893.
Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston, then–Governor General of Canada, initially as a "challenge trophy" for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. The champions held onto the Cup until they either lost their league title to another club, or a champion from ...
It is commonly referred to as simply "The Cup", "The Holy Grail" or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as "Lord Stanley's Mug". [ 1 ] Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada , a new Stanley Cup is not made annually; the champions keep the Cup until a new champion is ...
The Habs had just hoisted Lord Stanley's famed chalice — and unknowingly launched an incredible drought that's lasted more than three decades. No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since June ...
The 1974 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1973–74 season, ... Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books.
Employees and former players who saw their team once set a record for missing the playoffs felt the glee in Monday’s Game 7 Stanley Cup Final win.