Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup (in German: The Stanley Cup), every year when the National Hockey League (NHL) champion, is the coveted club ice hockey championship trophy in the World. It is generally when the Cup, the Holy Grail or facetiously (mainly sportswriters) as Lord Stanley's cup. The Stanley Cup is surrounded by many myths and traditions, of which the oldest is the celebration champagne to drink, the trophy for winning team. Unlike trophies awarded by the three other major professional sports leagues in North America, a new Stanley Cup is not carried out annually; winner of the trophy to keep until a new champion is crowned. It is the only trophy of professional sport, the name of the victory of the players, coaches, administration, the clubs and engraved. The initial bowl, money and has a size of 18.5 sales (7.28 inches) in height and 29 cm (11.42 cm) in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, money and nickel. He has a height of 89.54 cm (35.25 cm), weight 15.5 kg (34.5 lbs).

The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. Originally, the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was designed by the former Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston years 1892 as an award for Canada's top-ranking lovers Ice Hockey Club. In 1915, the two professional associations Ice Hockey World Championship, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached an oral, in which their respective supporters would be confronted each other in the Stanley Cup. After a series of mergers and the League of wrinkles, he was de facto championship trophy Draft in 1926. The Cup was in a position to swear prices NHL championship in 1947.

History

By Frederick Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, was launched by the Queen Victoria as Governor-General of Canada on 11 In June 1888, he and his family are very excited for hockey. Stanley initially by the party in Montreal 1888 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play hockey club of Montreal. The newspaper of Montreal said it "expressed his great pleasure for the ice hockey and the expertise of the players." During this period, organized hockey in Canada was still in its early stages and only in Montreal and Ottawa has anything like leagues.

Lord Stanley of the entire family is now actively involved in hockey. Two of his sons, Arthur and Algernon, a new team from Ottawa curtain rebels. Arthur also played a key role in the creation of what later became known as the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). Arthur and Algernon convinced her father is the trophy for "one to go, and the sign for the championship hockey". Lord Stanley after the victory celebration on 18 March 1892 for the three times in Ottawa Hockey Club:

I was for a time thought it would be a good thing if it is a challenge that should be from year to year through the championship hockey team in the Dominion (Canada).

It seems not a sign of a championship at the moment, and taking into account the general interest, which is now the importance and the players after the game fairly and universally accepted rules, I am ready to accept a bowl, which hold , from year to year, the winning team.

I am not quite sure that the current arrangements for the provision of the games in full satisfaction, and it would be useful to consider whether it might not be ready, so that each team plays once at home and once at the spot where their opponents hail.

A short time later, Lord Stanley bought a decorative bowl, forged in Sheffield, England in London goldsmith GR Collis and corporate management (now Boodles and Dunthorne Jewelers), while ten guinées (ten and a half pounds, or $ 48, 67 USD in the period ). It was the words "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup" on one of the outer side of the rim, and "Stanley of Preston" on the other side.

Originally, Lord Stanley expects that FIFA should award for the top team in Hockey Canada admirers, is the adoption of a challenge, a different team. He has five provisional arrangements:

1st The winners of the Cup, in good order, if necessary, by the trustee, so that it again so another team can win.
2nd Each winning team, at their own expense, the association can name and the burning of a ring of silver climbed to the football.
3rd The Cup is a challenge cup, and not in the possession of a team, even if he wins more than once.
4th The administrators have absolute power in all situations or disputes over the winner of the FIFA.
5th If a trustee resignation existing or abandoned, and the other trustees will appoint a deputy.

Lord Stanley appointed police chief John Sweet land and Philip D. Ross as a trustee for the FIFA. Sweet Land and Ross presented for the first time the Cup after 1893 in the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the master of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC), because they "beat all market participants, in which at the end of the season, including champions of the Association of Ontario (Ottawa Generals). Sweet Land, and Ross believes that the AHAC was the first league, and the first place in the completion of the AHAC, Montreal is the best team in Canada. Of course, the Ottawa Generals were dismayed by the decision because there was no problem playground, and because the administration failed, the current rules on how to be Awarded FIFA has not adopted before the beginning of the season.

Accordingly Coupe trustees expressed more precise on how the trophies are represented and awarded:

* The interface will automatically adjust to the team the championship in the old master in the league, you need no further no additional fee.
* Challenger for the FIFA hockey clubs should be high, and won the championship. Challenger acknowledged, in the order in which their application.
* The challenge of the Games (where FIFA to change leagues), or decided in a case of the game, a game of two goals entire affair, or a better of the three series, to the advantage of both teams. All games can be found on the home ice of the Masters, but the exact dates and times to be used by the administrators.
* Ticket revenue from the games challenge are also divided between the two teams.
* If the two clubs can rely on an arbitrator, trustees will appoint one, and the two teams are also cover the expenditure. If both clubs no agreement can be reached on other officials, the appointment of the referee and the two clubs must pay the cost
* A League could challenge for the FIFA twice in a season.

Lord Stanley never a championship game of the Stanley Cup no longer imagine that he never the cup. During his term as governor general in September 1893, he was forced to return to England on 15 July. In April this year, his older brother, Edward Stanley, 15 Earl of Derby died, and Stanley replaced 16 Earl of Derby.

Cup

During the period of challenge, no leagues have played for the trophy had a formal series decide their masters, as is the team to the first place finishes after the regular season won the championship. But in 1894, four teams of five teams AHAC equal to the championship with the files from 5-3-0. The AHAC no system fraction of equality. After long negotiations and the World of the League of competition, it was decided that a team of three tournament will be held in Montreal, Ottawa, with a pass for the finals because they were the only team. On 17 March, in the first game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the hockey club in Montreal (Montreal HC) defeated the Montreal Victorias, 3-2. Five days later, in the first part of Stanley Cup finals, Montreal HC, the Generals of Ottawa, 3-1.
In 1895, the Queen's University was the first official challenger by FIFA, although he disputed. The Montreal Victorias won the championship and thus the Stanley Cup, but the challenge of the game between the champions of the previous year, HC Montreal, and the University group. The trustees have decided that if the HC Montreal won the game challenge, which would Victorias Stanley Cup champions. The HC Montreal won the game 5-1 and the crossing town rivals were the winners crowned. The first challenge for the success of the FIFA came in the following year by the Winnipeg Victorias, the master of hockey League of Manitoba. On 14 In February 1896, the Brigade of Winnipeg defeated the champions 2-0 and became the first team outside the AHAC to win from .

As the prestige gained increased interfaces so that the need to attract the best players. What nine months after winning the cup, in March 1906, in Montreal Wanderers driven by a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), which allows professional players play alongside amateurs. Because the ECAHA were the best hockey league in Canada at the time, the trustee has to open the challenges of the professional teams. The first professionally from the competition came a month later in the Wanderers' double game, the sum of the objectives challenge series, of which they have won 17 goals in 5 .

The smallest municipality champion in the Stanley Cup team is Kenora, Ontario, the city has a population of about 4000, when the Kenora Thistles caught, FIFA in January 1907. Supported by future Hall Famers Art Ross and "Bad" Joe Hall, the Thistles defeated the Montreal Wanderers, in a game two, the sum of the objectives challenge series. The Thistles defended the Cup success against a team from Brandon, Manitoba. In March 1907, against the Wanderers Thistles to a rematch. Despite an improvement in the range, the Thistles lost World Championships in Montreal.

In 1908, Allan was the trophy from Canada lovers, and the Stanley Cup begins, a symbol of the supremacy of professional hockey. In the same year, the first team by all experts, in Toronto Trolley Leaguers of the newly created Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL) are in the race for the Cup. A year later, on HC and Montreal Victorias of Montreal, the other two amateur teams, left ECAHA and ECAHA largué "lovers" from their names, a professional league. 1910, the National Hockey Association (NHA). The NHA soon proved that it was the best in Canada, as it has the trophy for the next four years.

Before 1912, the challenges could be at any time when the conditions for ice, and it is common for teams to defend the Cup many times a year. In 1912, FIFA trustee said that it not only defends, at the end of the team in the regular season.

Competition

In 1914, the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) has the league title and NHA Toronto Blue Shirts. Since the Aristocrats never officially presented a challenge, the trustee of the Cup in the series as illegal. But the intention was questionable, in Toronto continued with the success in the Cup sweeps a better five series [24].

A year later, the NHA and PCHA a gentlemen's agreement that this battle for Champions Cup, similar to the World Series Baseball plays, which is between the League of the USA and the National League champions. Under the new proposal, the number of Stanley Cup between East and West each year, with a move to NHA parties played and PCHA rules. [25] The average trustees agreed this new draft, because after the Allan Cup, the higher price for the hockey team admirers in Canada, the trustee had become dependent on both the League strengthening the primacy of the trophy. [26] The PCHA Millionaires from Vancouver, won the "formal" PCHA-NHA Cup finals, three games to zero in one of the five best series [27].

After Portland Rosen, an American from the team, has in the PCHA in 1914, trustees have released a statement that is no longer the trophy for the best team in Canada, but for now the best team in the World. [25] Two years later, the roses were the first team in the USA, which in the final declaration of the Stanley Cup. [26] 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first team in the USA Cup. [28] After this season, Draft dissolved, and the National Hockey League (NHL) has its place [25].

In 1919, the outbreak of the Spanish flu forced the Canadian from Montreal and the Seattle Metropolitans to cancel their series, which mark the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded. [29] The series was associated with 2-2-1, but the game was never played in Montreal, because the actors Joe Hall, Billy Coutu, Jack McDonald, Edouard Lalonde, and the Director George Kennedy, the flu were hospitalized. Hall died four days after the cancellation of the game, and the series was abandoned. [30]

The format of the final to the Stanley Cup amended 1922 with the creation of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Three leagues have opted for the FIFA: two Champions League against either side of the right, against the third league title in the series. [31] It took three years by the PCHA and the WCHL later, to the Western Hockey League (WHL) 1924. [32] After winning in the 1924-25 season, the Victoria Cougars became the last team outside the NHL won the Stanley Cup.

NHL takes over

The WHL repeated in 1926, but the NHL is the only in the race for the League Cup. Other leagues and clubs occasionally expressed challenges, but as of this year, not from the NHL, he played for the team that allows them facto championship trophy in the NHL. 1947, Draft has an agreement with the administrators PD Ross and Cooper Smeaton to grant the cup to the NHL, which the league rejected other problems may have wanted leagues games for the FIFA.

1st The administration says Delegate for the full League to identify and change from time to time, the conditions of competition on the Stanley Cup, including the qualifications of the challenger, the appointment of officials, the distribution and the distribution of all revenue, provided that the winner this trophy is the world recognized professional hockey champions.
2nd The Board agreed that during the term of this agreement, they recognize and accept no challenge for the Stanley Cup, unless such a challenge is, in accordance with the conditions set out in paragraph one (1).
3rd The League is responsible for the care and protection in a safe place at the Stanley Cup, including all the repairs and modifications for interfaces and sub-regional structures will be carried out from time to time and will also order the Stanley Cup for the full insured value.
4th The League itself is in connection with the administration in the amount of several thousand dollars, is the subject of an obligation to return without danger to the Stanley Cup in the administration in accordance with the terms of this agreement, and it was agreed that the league have the right to return the trophy in the administration at any time.
5th This Agreement shall remain in force so long that the league is and remains the world leader in the professional hockey league, as his size of the game, and in the event of dissolution or other cessation of the National Hockey League for the Stanley cut Are immediately after the protection of the administration.
6th Will the appointment of a new trustee of a trust survivors, the "management" lays appoint officers, and the President of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario, Canada appoint two administrators in the exercise of the terms of the original trust, and in accordance with that agreement.
7th And it is also agreed to a common agreement that all disputes concerning the interpretation of this Agreement or the facts that such an interpretation is, after a panel of three persons, including one member named by each party, and the third to be the two persons named. The decision of the Arbitration Commission is final.

This agreement was signed on 22 November 1961, replaced the governors of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario, with the Committee of the temple of fame hockey in Toronto, Ontario, as if the group that the names of the two administrators Canadian, possibly. In the years 1970, the World Association of Hockey searched challenge for the FIFA. The government rejects the opportunity to do this.

The cut was every year until 2005, the date on which the work is a conflict between the owners of the NHL and the NHL Players Association (union of the actors) have led to the cancellation of the season 2004-05. Accordingly, no master had for the first time since the pandemic of bird flu in 1919. The controversial lockout were among the many fans who are wondering whether in the NHL had control of the FIFA. A website called freestanley.com (minutes), and urges fans to write the Cup trustees and ask again in the original Challenge Cup. Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, has proposed that the exchange trophy presentation on the side of the women hockey teams instead of the NHL. This idea was so unpopular that FIFA Clarkson was on the spot. During this time, a group of Ontario, also known as the "Wednesday Nighters", a request to the Supreme Ontario that FIFA trustees have superimposed their limits in the signing of the 1947 agreement with the NHL, and must therefore trophy awarded regardless lockout. On 7 In February 2006, a regulation was in the trophy, which is assigned to the team in the NHL not to use, should the league for a season.

Today

There are three cups: Original hull, which authenticates Cup, and the copy in the Hall Of Fame. The first cup of Lord Stanley is currently Hockey Hall Of Fame in Toronto, Ontario.

The first version of the presentation Cup was in 1963 in Montreal money blacksmith Carl Petersen, and it is at present to the winners of play, and for transport. It has been in secret, and the production has been open only Bart was 1970, after he was "kidnapped" and the ransom. He was still anonymous. A second version of the so-called reproductive Cup was in 1993 in Montreal money blacksmith Louise St. Jacques used to be the technical and analytical - whenever the Cup presentation, it is not available on the Hockey Hall Of Fame.

Currently, for a name on the Cup, a player must have played at least 41 games for the league's regular team during the season (assuming the player is still with the team when they win the Cup) , or at least played in a Game of the final. However, the NHL is also for other reasons in a case-by-case decision. Vladimir Konstantinov, whose career was ended by a car accident on June 13, 1997, had his name engraved on the Stanley Cup in Detroit to defend the title in 1998. The Detroit Red Wings have the NHL special permission to do so.

Henri Richard has the largest number of Stanley Cup as a player, with 11 No name appears on the Stanley Cup Jean Beliveau. It appears 17 times: 10 as a player and 7 of Management.

Twelve women have their names on the eingraviert Stanley Cup. The Executive Director of Hockey Charlotte Grahame name was in 2001 when the Colorado Avalanche won. Charlotte's sons later, John had his name engraved on it as a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning, so that only the mother and son combination to win the Stanley Cup.