FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Stanley Cup is just a little banged up, because of the Florida Panthers’ celebration of back-to-back titles.
The bowl of the well-known trophy is cracked and the underside is dented. Not for the primary time and sure not the final.
The Panthers received their second consecutive championship on dwelling ice Tuesday night time, beating Edmonton in six video games. The group, following a long time of custom, partied with the Cup into the wee hours and saved the revelry moving into Fort Lauderdale nicely into Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the Hockey Corridor of Fame stated the keepers of the Cup are taking the suitable steps and plan to have it repaired by the celebration parade on Sunday. Fabricated from silver and a nickel alloy, the 37-pound Cup is comparatively malleable.
Injury is nothing new for the 131-year-old silver chalice that has been submerged in swimming pools and the Atlantic Ocean and mishandled by gamers, coaches and employees for greater than a century. Simply this decade alone, the Tampa Bay Lightning dropped the Cup throughout their boat parade in 2021 and the Colorado Avalanche dented it on the ice the night time they received the next 12 months.