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The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". [1]
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 engraved names of the 2000–01 Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. This article lists a chronology of Stanley Cup engravings.A unique feature of the Stanley Cup is that, with few exceptions in the past, it is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved on it, [1] but this has not always been the case as ...
At the same time, the Stanley Cup was contested between two NHL teams for the first time instead of at least one from an outside league. Midway through the 1926–27 season, the Toronto St. Patricks were sold and renamed the Toronto Maple Leafs, however the league ruled the team must use the St. Patricks name until season's end.
Two seasons later, the Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup in 1936, defeating Toronto in four games. [27] Detroit repeated as Stanley Cup champions in 1937, winning over the Rangers in the full five games. [27] In 1938, the Montreal Canadiens and the Red Wings became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London. The ...
They swept the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win the team's first-ever Stanley Cup, as they brought the Cup across the Hudson River from New York, after the Rangers had won it the year before. The 1994–95 Devils team became the first to give the players a day with the Stanley Cup, a tradition that lives on with each Cup winner. [ 46 ]
Stanley's revenue skyrocketed from $73 million in 2019 to a whopping $750 million in 2023. The release of limited-edition colors and collaborations only fuels the Stanley mania.
NHL Stanley Cup, an ice hockey video game; Stanley Cup challenge games, the competition format of the Stanley Cup used from 1893 to 1914; Stanley Cup Finals, the championship series to determine the winner of the Stanley Cup; Stanley Cup playoffs, the elimination tournament in which the trophy is contested