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.