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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]
One of the oldest traditions, started by the 1896 Winnipeg Victorias, dictates that the winning team drink champagne from the top bowl after their victory. [3] During a Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten list entitled "Perks of Winning the Stanley Cup", which happened after the New York Rangers won the Cup in 1994, number one was "My friend, you can't drink beer out of a Nobel Prize!"
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 ...
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 ...
The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season. [20] In 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, [21] and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. [22] The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season. [23]
Morenz was the first NHL player to score a second Stanley Cup winning goal, with the Canadiens' victory in the 1930 Stanley Cup Finals over the Boston Bruins. [56] The Bruins, who finished with a 38–5–1 record and at one point during the season went 23 games without a defeat, lost consecutive games to Montreal in the finals, 3–0 and 4–3 ...
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