Who owns stanley cup

Find out below! Statue of Lord Stanley. Did you know the Stanley Cup is named after a person? Lord Stanley enjoyed sports. After he saw his first hockey game, he and his family were hooked! His children convinced him there should be a trophy for the best team in the country. In , he bought a silver bowl from a shop in London, England, and donated it.

It was decided the trophy should be named after him. But only one team wins the trophy at the end of the season. And no team has enjoyed more victory laps than the Montreal Canadiens.

But the Canadiens have won the most Stanley Cups ever — a whopping 24 times! The engravings on the Stanley Cup showing all the Montreal Canadien wins. Who set the record for the most back-to-back wins of the Stanley Cup?

That would be the Montreal Canadiens again. It has a height of A new Stanley Cup is not made each year, unlike the trophies awarded by the other major professional sports leagues of North America. The current Cup was almost stolen again in , but a keen-eyed Hall of Fame employee thwarted the attempt. Seven men were spotted near the Cup with a large gym bag. When approached, they dashed outside. While the NHL has maintained control over the trophy itself and its associated trademarks, the NHL does not actually own the trophy but uses it by agreement with the two Canadian trustees of the cup.

The youngest player to ever win the Cup was Larry Hillman. He was just 18 years, 2 months, and 9 days old when the Boston Bruins won the cup in Originally Answered: What happens when the Stanley cup runs of out free space for new winners? The cup is made up of a series of « bands » that wrap around it. Except for certain parts, like the top of the cup, the bands that get full are removed and placed into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

How Old Is the Stanley Cup? There are actually three Stanley Cups. There is the Dominion Challenge Cup , which is the original bowl donated by Lord Stanley and retired in , the Presentation Cup , which is the one the players skate around with, and the Hockey Hall of Fame Cup. And which team forgot they even won the Cup? Three years earlier, at the Montreal Winter Carnival, he and his family fell in love with the sport of hockey.

The Cup has come a long way since then. While two Stanley Cups get the chance to meet people, there are actually three.

The above photo is of the original cup known as the Dominion Hockey Challenge, which was awarded until Why did the Cup change? It was created in by Montreal silversmith Louise St. It is used as a stand-in at the Hall of Fame when the Presentation Cup is not available.

The current Stanley Cup, which is a replica of the original bowl with with newer bands below, weighs in at True hockey fans will be the first to say that their sport has the best trophy. The truth is, we do. For one thing, the Stanley Cup goes to the players first, instead of the owners. You may even notice some coaches step back and let their players raise it first.

Coming in at Unlike other teams, a new trophy is not made every year. Instead, players get to raise the exact cup they dreamt of raising as children. The Cup also gets the names of players, coaches, management and staff of the winning team permanently engraved on them. If you win the Cup, your name will go down in hockey history. The players actually get the Cup for a day. Unlike other sports, the players themselves get to take the Cup to their hometown and enjoy a day with it.

The NHL allows the winning team to spend off-season days with the Cup, but who was the first to give each player a day with it? That was the New Jersey Devils who made the tradition what we know today.

They started giving it to each player and front office member for a day. Stanley has been all over the world — even to Afghanistan — all accompanied by its keeper, of course. Phil Pritchard has been the keeper of the Cup since and travels everywhere the cup goes. His journeys with the cup can be found on his Twitter.