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Stanley Cup is no stranger to damage or rough and tumble adventures
Stanley Cup is no stranger to damage or rough and tumble adventures

Toronto Sun

time19-06-2025

  • Sport
  • Toronto Sun

Stanley Cup is no stranger to damage or rough and tumble adventures

The top prize in hockey has sustained its fair share or dings and dents over the years. Get the latest from Lance Hornby straight to your inbox Florida Panthers' Matthew Tkachuk holds up the Stanley Cup during the team's celebration, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The dent on the cup is clearly visible near his left hand. South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP The Florida Panthers are hardly the first team to play rough with the Stanley Cup. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account A team fights that long and that hard to win it, you deserve a chance to celebrate and though it's made of malleable material (a silver-nickel alloy that can usually be re-shaped) its custodians prefer it be returned in one piece. Donated by Lord Stanley of Preston in 1888, some of our favourite tales of when the Cup was runneth over: CUP GETS ITS KICKS The 6,400 kilometres the Dawson City Nuggets travelled from the Yukon to Ottawa to challenge for the title in January of 1905 was Cup-worthy in itself, though the Ottawa Silver Seven blew out the weary travelers in a best-of-three series. After a 23-2 one-sided clincher, the gracious Seven held a banquet for the visitors, with the victorious Bytowners later staggering into the street with their prize. Bets were placed whether one of them could boot the bowl across the Rideau Canal — thankfully frozen over at that time of year — but when it only landed halfway, none of the merrymakers thought to retrieve it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Next morning, a player was grateful to find it still there. FORGETTING SOMETHING? In 1924, the Cup was abandoned again. The winning Montreal Canadiens went off to owner Leo Dandurand's home, but the car carrying the trophy had a flat tire. After getting out to fix it, they forgot they had put the trophy at the side of the road. HOT STUFF Twice the Cup has been allegedly burned, once when the 1940 champion New York Rangers ceremoniously set fire to the paid-off mortgage of original Madison Square Garden and during one of Toronto's championships in the '60s during a team bonfire party. It has been established that the bowl can hold 14 bottles of beer. But in 1957, Habs legend Maurice 'Rocket' Richard chipped both of his front teeth while taking an enthusiastic swig. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Other players have been at a loss for words when asked to describe the taste of beer, champagne and alloy after it's constantly refilled. CUP-NAPPED A Montreal fan didn't take it well when his team failed to win the Cup in 1962. As it sat in a glass case in the lobby of old Chicago Stadium during the '62 playoffs, won the previous year by the Blackhawks, Ken Kilander deftly opened the door, put the Cup on his shoulder and was marching out when arrested. He later told the judge: 'Your Honour, I was simply bringing the Cup back to Montreal where it belongs.' KID STUFF One of the oldest Cup traditions is a player's young child posed in the bowl — but accidents do happen. When the Leafs won their third straight title in '64, team exec Harold Ballard brought the Cup to Red Kelly's Toronto home as the star split his time as an elected Toronto MP and been called to Ottawa right after beating Detroit. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Conn Kelly, then just a few months old, was positioned in the bowl for a photo and wound up relieving himself, a story Red laughed about for years whenever he saw someone drink from the trophy. In 2008, Kris Draper's infant daughter also soiled herself, but the unfazed forward gave the Cup a thorough cleaning and drank from it the same day. But rest assured of the Cup's purification: Colorado's Sylvain Lefebvre was the first of four players to use it as a baptismal font. POOL PARTY Silver and chlorine might not be a good mix, but more than once, a Cup handoff at a backyard pool was fumbled. It rested at the bottom of Mario Lemieux's pond during a Pittsburgh Penguins party. 'The Cup does not float,' teammate Phil Bourque confirmed. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The first time Florida won it last year, it went to sea on a fishing trip and was used to hold live bait This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. There was new meaning given to the term 'hoisting the Cup' in 1988. Edmonton car mechanic Al Braun looked up from a fender repair job to see a sheepish looking Oilers official holding the badly dented Cup. With the team picture to be taken that day, Braun was asked to put the trophy back into recognizable shape. Braun and two pals put the Cup on a hoist, re-attached the broken base, straightened the bumps and shined it up — for no charge. RANGER DANGER In 1994, the NHL was not pleased to put the Cup on display for the draft in Hartford with a decided tilt to one side, the result of late-night carousing by the champion Rangers. 'It looked like someone sat on it,' complained a Hall of Fame official, who re-possessed it from the team until it could be repaired. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'It was dropped multiple times,' former Ranger-turned-Sportsnet Nick Kypreos co-host recalled to us on Wednesday. 'We got in trouble with the older person from (the league office in Montreal) for letting people grab it by the neck.' Before accepting an invite from the Mayor's office to bring it to his house, the team entrusted Kypreos and goalie Glenn Healy with the Cup for a couple of hours. In a police squad car escort, they brought it to Manhattan's oldest bar, McSorley's Ale House, a movie locale for Gangs of New York . 'The place went absolute bananas,' Kypreos said in his book, Undrafted. 'We barely got through the door before the Cup was taken from our hands and passed through the crowd. Total mayhem.' HOCKEY TALKY SHOW David Letterman procured the Cup one year the New York Islanders won it, walking it out for Late Night 's opening. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. On Jimmy Kimmel Live , the host and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez went much further by mixing a giant margarita in the bowl — salt, lime and all — with the help of the Los Angeles Kings' Conn Smythe Trophy winner Justin Williams and defenceman Alec Martinez. The foursome then sipped the concoction under the watchful eye of the Hall of Fame's white-gloved Cup custodian Phil Pritchard. Read More AVS CUP NICKED The Cup was damaged on live TV in Colorado's 2022 celly. Players were assembled for the traditional centre-ice photo and called Nicolas Aube-Kubel to come over with it, but in his rush, the forward stumbled and dropped it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I guess it's a new record today, five minutes into the presentation,' Pritchard quipped at the time. Traditionalists often are shocked and dismayed by the trophy's treatment but, after all, it is known as 'the people's Cup.' The current Lord Edward Stanley, who visited the Hall of Fame for the first time last year, told Postmedia he has no issue with how the winners party with his great-great-great grandfather's donation to the sport. 'I think it's very cool. I really enjoyed hearing the stories,' he said. 'The love is in the heritage' lhornby@ X: @sunhornby World NHL Toronto & GTA MMA Editorial Cartoons

8 Great Things to Do Through the Summer Months in the Florida Keys
8 Great Things to Do Through the Summer Months in the Florida Keys

Epoch Times

time16-05-2025

  • Epoch Times

8 Great Things to Do Through the Summer Months in the Florida Keys

Kari Barnett South Florida Sun-Sentinel The Florida Keys have more than beauty and beaches. Here's a look at some activities going on this summer. June 5-7 Coralpalooza Tenth-anniversary event honoring World Ocean Day and World Reef Awareness Day. SCUBA-certified divers get hands-on restoration opportunities and snorkelers explore the broader context of coral reef conservation. Times vary. Upper and Lower Keys.

Rainy weather eases Central Florida drought and wildfire fears
Rainy weather eases Central Florida drought and wildfire fears

Yahoo

time12-05-2025

  • Climate
  • Yahoo

Rainy weather eases Central Florida drought and wildfire fears

After one of the driest Aprils on record, Central Florida has received enough rain in just the past few days to stem drought conditions and ease wildfire worries that started in late March. Through Sunday, a total of more than 4.3 inches of rain has fallen near downtown Orlando in May, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne. The typical tally for the first eleven days of the month is about one inch. On Saturday, flights were delayed at Orlando International Airport because of heavy thunderstorms. The rainy skies are part of a weak cold front that has been moving across the southeastern United States carrying a line of showers through Central Florida, according to Tim Sedlock, a meteorologist with the weather service. In South Florida — which was under extreme drought conditions last week — the same weather system could dump as much as 10 inches of rain within a 24-hour period through Tuesday, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. A flood watch was in effect for Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The rainy weather likely won't stick around Central Florida, however. The storm system is expected to move out of the region by early Tuesday. It will be replaced by drier and hotter conditions for the next several days, Sedlock said. But the May showers were welcomed after Central Florida experienced its driest April since 2017 and second driest since 1981, with less than half an inch of rain the entire month. Residents saw small ponds nearly dry and lawns turn brown. On May 1, there were 85 wildfires burning in Florida, but that number had dropped to 40 on Monday, including three blazes in Osceola County, according to the Florida Forest Service. Most were contained fires. 'That's good news for fire departments,' said Doreen Overstreet, a spokeswoman for the Seminole County Fire Department, of the several days of rain. Seminole's department in recent weeks moved trucks, equipment and manpower to wooded rural areas in case wildfires took spark. A week ago, Seminole and portions of Orange were experiencing moderate drought conditions. And portions of Lake, Volusia and Marion counties were labeled with extreme drought, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly drought monitor. The lack of rain coupled with higher-than-normal temperatures and breezy days led to Seminole, Orange, Osceola, Lake and Volusia counties to implement burn bans that prohibit lighting fires outdoors. Burn bans are automatically activated by Florida counties whenever the Keetch-Byram Drought Index — a scale that measures the dryness of the soil — reaches or exceeds 500. But as of Monday, the index showed Orange County was at 382, Osceola at 453, Seminole at 354 and Volusia at 439. Lake County, however, was just over 500. It's likely many of those burn bans will soon be lifted. 'Technically, we are not enforcing it,' Overstreet said of Seminole's burn ban that was put in place March 28. 'It expires on Thursday.' Orange's ban also would be lifted Thursday if its index remains under 500, according to county spokeswoman Kelly Finkelstein. When the storm system system moves out, high temperatures on Tuesday are forecast to reach 86 degrees, and the lows drop to 67, according to the weather service. Skies will be mostly sunny with a 20% chance of rain. On Wednesday, we can expect even warmer and drier conditions as high pressure slides into the area. Temperatures are expected to climb to 88 degrees and then drop to 67 at night. Then Thursday through Saturday, the forecast is for sunny weather with the temperatures reaching into the mid-90s each day. 'Most of the wet weather systems will be kept to the north,' Sedlock said. The region's official rainy season — when residents experience regular afternoon thunderstorms and thick humidity — doesn't start until May 27.

Tyreek Hill posts photos of second wrist surgery of offseason
Tyreek Hill posts photos of second wrist surgery of offseason

NBC Sports

time07-05-2025

  • Sport
  • NBC Sports

Tyreek Hill posts photos of second wrist surgery of offseason

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill made his second visit to the operating room of the offseason. Hill had wrist surgery in February to repair an injury that he played through during the 2024 season and he posted pictures, via David Furones of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, from a surgical bed to social media on Tuesday. Hill captioned one of the Snapchat photos 'surgery #2" and another showed him with his wrist bandaged along with the caption 'mission successful.' Marcel-Louis Jacques of reports that Hill had screws removed from his wrist in a procedure that was part of his initial treatment plan. Word at the time of the initial surgery was that Hill would be ready to go for training camp and there's no sign that anything has changed on that front.

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