The Stanley Cup Has Been To Some Odd Places...

Since being first awarded to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Hockey Club back in 1893, 1,134 players have hoisted hockey’s Holy Grail. Over 30 nations are/have been represented in the NHL, needless to say, the Cup has been all over the world. Along with being very well traveled, the Stanley Cup has also been to some extremely odd places.

The Detroit Red Wings had back-to-back cup wins back in 1997/98, to celebrate, Steve Yzerman took a shower with it while Igor Larionov, Slava Kozlov and Slava Fetisov visited Vladimir Lenin’s tomb in Russia.

Back in 1924, the Montreal Canadiens left it in a snowbank on the side of the road…
Joey Kocur took the cup tubing behind his speedboat after winning it with the Rangers back in 1994…
In 1996, Sylvain Lefebvre had his kid baptized in it…

It’s been on a space shuttle…
The bottom of Mario Lemieux’s pool…

Luc Robitaille served meatballs out of it at his house party last summer…

And of course, Mark Messier took it to a strip club…

It’s also been kicked down the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. There’s probably a million other Stanley Cup stories you and I will never hear about. Every player gets a day to do whatever the heck they want with hockey’s holy grail; if you had the Stanley Cup for one day… what would YOU do?