3 days ago
Podcast: What's it like to be the keeper of the Stanley Cup?
A few days from now, Burlington's Phil Pritchard is going to do what he's done every June for years and walk the Stanley Cup out to centre ice to present to the new National Hockey League champions.
With apologies to sportscaster Jim Nance and his famous line about the Masters,
this
is a tradition like no other.
A few weeks after that's done, Pritchard will start travelling to the ends of the earth to give each of the winners their day with the trophy. Which is an annual festival of joy that's taken him to the Great Wall of China, Russia and even into a sauna with a future Hall of Famer.
In this episode of Placeline Hamilton, we find out what he thinks about before walking the Cup out there, what the one request from a player was that he couldn't fulfil, and the one rule he's never broken, even though he could and nobody would ever know.
Oh, and we learn where all those white gloves go after he's worn them.
This podcast explores issues about the city and stories of interest to those who call it home. Every week, Spectator columnist Scott Radley will dive into hot-button topics with newsmakers, explore stories with the reporters covering them, and chat with those who add to the fabric of this community.
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