Stanley Cup Tradition May Be Derailed by Pandemic Safety Concerns
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NY Times Hockey
The Lightning have held a parade and a stadium celebration, albeit with limited capacity. But each player getting a day with the trophy, a rite since 1995, is uncertain. They hoisted, they hugged and they kissed the Stanley Cup — then they filled it with Champagne and gulped it empty again.
The N.H.L. breathed a corporate sigh of relief when the Lightning defeated the Dallas Stars to claim the Cup on Sept. 28, making it the first major North American professional sports league to complete its season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Since 1995, each Cup-winning player, coach and trainer has been granted a day to host the Stanley Cup in his hometown.
Pritchard said on Monday that the league was consulting with the Lightning in the hopes of arranging some kind of “celebration tour.”
An Englishman, Lord Stanley of Preston, donated the original Cup in 1892, when he was serving as governor-general of Canada.
And it wasn’t hard to find footage of fans lining up to drink from the Cup.
The N.H.L. breathed a corporate sigh of relief when the Lightning defeated the Dallas Stars to claim the Cup on Sept. 28, making it the first major North American professional sports league to complete its season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Since 1995, each Cup-winning player, coach and trainer has been granted a day to host the Stanley Cup in his hometown.
Pritchard said on Monday that the league was consulting with the Lightning in the hopes of arranging some kind of “celebration tour.”
An Englishman, Lord Stanley of Preston, donated the original Cup in 1892, when he was serving as governor-general of Canada.
And it wasn’t hard to find footage of fans lining up to drink from the Cup.