The championship trophy for the NHL, a.k.a. “The Holy Grail” or “Lord Stanley’s Mug.” Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made annually; unless the Cup winners repeat as champions in the following season, they only keep it until the new champion is crowned. It is also the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved upon it. It is so revered players will not touch it unless they win it.?
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Monday, March 29th, 2010Crosby Captures Hart Trophy As MVP; Malkin Takes Calder
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Trophy News From Crosby, TORONTO
Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby won the Hart Trophy as the National Hockey League’s Most Valuable Player tonight, capping a sophomore season in which he became the youngest scoring champion in major pro sports history and sparked one of the NHL’s most dramatic team turnarounds.
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Record Seven Swedish Players to Bring the Trophy Home
Monday, July 28th, 2008Trophy News From Sweden
The Stanley Cup has made its share of interesting off-season appearances, but Tomas Holmstrom of the Detroit Red Wings may have added a truly unique chapter to the trophy’s storied history.
Each member of the championship-winning club gets the trophy for a day, and Holmstrom decided to let his cousin use it as a baptismal font for a christening.
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