S is for the Stanley Cup: A Hockey Championship Alphabet
B is A tender that water flowed and that their name the Cup was placed It turns out that having a trophy with a bowl on top can be pretty handy Colorado Avalanche defenceman Sylvain Lefebvre and his wife had their daughter baptized in the Cup in 1996 A Swedish cousin of Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom borrowed the Cup and used it to baptize his baby in 2008 The Cup itself was baptized in a different way in the 1960s when Toronto's Red Kelly put his baby son Conn in it Being a baby Conn did not know he was not supposed to pee in the Stanley Cup Don't worry They washed it very thoroughly
for Baptism child will never know into a silver bowl name was given when placed right under them
When it was originally presented in 1893 the Cup was just a silver bowl attached to a wooden pedestal Unlike many other trophies the Stanley Cup bears the names of nearly every player or team executive to win it In 1924 the Montreal Canadiens began the formal tradition of including a new ring with the players names every year The Cup became so large it came to be known as the Elephant Leg or the Stovepipe The Cup was redesigned in 1958 with five rings containing the names of 13 teams per ring scow UTAWA 903 To be eligible for inclusion a player needs to have played half his team's regular season games or at least one playoff game Another fun fact the members of the winning team are allowed to borrow the Cup for one day
c is for Cup takes about a pound of weight per inch of silver atop the plate It's just short of three feet high and in pounds just under 35 ORIGINAL STANLEY cup
