Please be advised that every last one of you sounds like an utter moron whenever you say “Stanley Cups”, as if there are more than one. Contrary to what was reported on ESPN this morning, Mark Messier did not “win five Stanley Cups”. He won THE Stanley Cup FIVE TIMES!
Every time one of you dipsticks refers to the Stanley Cup in the plural, a cruise ship mows down a manatee.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
(Photo courtesy of, and featuring, my Pittsburgh friend PVezz with her man and the Cup on the ice at [soon-to-be demolished] Mellon Arena some time after the Penguins’ win of the Cup last year.)
Tags: hockey, manatees, Mark Messier, NHL, NHL playoffs, sportscasters, Stanley Cup
The accepted plural is Stanley Cup rings. On another note, your photo is years old. What’s with the old emblem?!
MS, I’ve replaced it with one of my friend PVezz, her man and the Cup that’s not even a year old. Better?
so as heraclitus of ephesus might say …you can’t drink from the same stanley cup twice?
Pretty sure Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy and Peter Forsberg did, insom.
Paula, were you as surprised as I was, that when you grasp the rim of the Cup, that it’s totally pliable? At first, I thought somebody dented it.
That was not the original Stanley Cup. They replaced it and put it on display in the HOF because it was getting brittle. It had been tossed in a lake once, and went missing once and later found used as a flower pot.
MS, I seem to remember reading that the “current” Cup was put in play back in the 70s, which would certainly give it a respectable amount of tenure by now. Bonus: no history of horticultural use.
They also secretly made a second full Cup to display at the Hall while the “original” was on tour. I did see where some of the Tampa Bolts took it deep sea fishing and even had lobsters in the bowl. That’s why I laugh now whenever I see the HOF handler going aroung with his white gloves on; that thing has frat-house horror in its veins.