A Date With Stanley

How exited do you think this red blooded Canadian was when his kids said The Hockey Hall of Fame would be dropping by their school with the most coveted cup in the WORLD! We Canadians are crazy for Hockey and now the playoffs are under way and it's so cool to actually see the Stanley Cup that will be hoisted over the 2007 National Hockey League Champions!

The Stanley Cup is truly a work of art. Did you know that every players named is engraved onto the cup from every Championship team since the early 1900's! Unfortunately our poor Toronto Maple Leafs last hoisted the cup in 1967.

This was a very sad time. Only twice in the history of the NHL was their ever a canceled season. 2004/05 was a players and owners dispute which forced a "Lock-Out" and back in the early 1900 a flu epidemic in forced a cancellation.

The end of a hockey's dynasty Teams. We will probably never ever see this type of run again. The young and awesome Wayne Gretzkey's first of 4 Stanley Cups he was also a 10 time scoring leader in the NHL. The way salaries are today and trading of players we will never see teams win this many successive cups anymore. Too much business and corporate influence in this great sport. Did you notice something odd about the engraving on the top right side? Well the Stanley Cup is not perfect . Some names have been misspelled and other non team members tried to sneak their names onto the cup.

Thanks to my girls and Lord Stanley for an awesome date. I hope you enjoyed a little trivia about the Greatest Game on EARTH......well at least I think so :)