Dallas vs. Tampa: Breaking down the Stanley Cup final. There are actually three Stanley Cups: the original bowl of the "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup", the authenticated "Presentation Cup", and the spelling-corrected "Permanent Cup" on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame. [6] It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug. It was held by nine different teams between 1893 and 1914. The winners in 1918 and 1920 to 1923 did not put their winning team name on it. The lockout was controversial among many fans, who questioned whether the NHL had exclusive control over the Cup. On December 6, 1990, after a two-year public campaign by Firestone, the NHL awarded a new franchise, which began play in the 1992–93 season. Only nine months after winning the Cup, in March 1906, the Montreal Wanderers pushed through a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) to allow professional players to play alongside amateurs. In 1927, the Ottawa Senators beat the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL . With the Montreal Canadiens having won by far the most Cup championships of any team, the list of the players who have been engraved on the Cup the most often is dominated by Montreal players. At the 6:55 mark, Walker scored on a back-hand to put Seattle again two goals ahead, before Nighbor scored his second to make the score 3–2 after two periods. The teams will meet again Tuesday night in Dallas. The 1920 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans. † Jimmy Gardner and Harry Smith were not members of Montreal Wanderers during their January, and March 1908 Stanley Cup defenses. This idea was so unpopular that the Clarkson Cup was created instead. The first time that the Cup was awarded on the ice may have been to the 1932 Toronto Maple Leafs, but the practice did not become a tradition until the 1950s. It is always accompanied by at least one representative from the Hockey Hall of Fame. In the event of default in the appointment of a new trustee by the surviving trustee, the "Trustees" hereby delegate and appoint the Governors of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario, to name two Canadian trustees to carry on under the terms of the original trust, and in conformity with this Agreement. [79] This may have been related to Eddie Olczyk's handling of the Cup after the New York Rangers' 1994 win - Olczyk brought the Cup to the Belmont Stakes, where Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin ate out of it. NHL.com is the official web site of the National Hockey League. Neither the NHL nor any other professional hockey league makes a claim to its champions being the world champions. They had four previous scheduled meetings season postponed because of COVID protocols and weather issues in Dallas. In the second period, Nighbor scored after two minutes to draw Ottawa close. Stanley Cup | Ottawa Sun. The 1915 Vancouver Millionaires became the second team to engrave players' names, this time inside the bowl along its sides. [63], Since 1958, the Cup has undergone several minor alterations. The Trustees hereby delegate to the League full authority to determine and amend from time to time the conditions for competition of the Stanley Cup, including the qualifications of challengers, the appointment of officials, the apportionment and distribution of all gate receipts, provided always that the winners of this trophy shall be the acknowledged World's Professional Hockey Champions. At that time, if a match was tied after one twenty-minute overtime period, the game went in the books as a tie. September 18, 2020 NHL. By consensus of league and team officials, the series was shifted to Toronto because of Ottawa's slushy ice conditions (The Ottawa Arena did not have artificial ice). NHL. When you win the Stanley Cup, the deal is you get to have it for one day, so former Ottawa Senators coach Jacques Martin chose to bring the coveted NHL trophy to CHEO for his special day. These were the last ties in Stanley Cup history.Rough play marred the series as in the final game, Hooley Smith cross-checked Boston's Harry Oliver and late in the game Billy Coutu attacked referee Jerry Laflamme and tackled refe… [61] The 1915 Ottawa Senators, the 1916 Portland Rosebuds and the 1918 Vancouver Millionaires all engraved their names on the trophy even though they did not officially win it under the new PCHA-NHA system. The Senators agreed to play in white sweaters. They await the winner of the Western Conference Final, between the Anaheim Ducks and the Detroit Red Wings. Boyle, a larger-than-life character, had made a … The regulations set down by Lord Stanley call for two Trustees, who had the sole, joint right to govern the Cup and the conditions of its awarding until 1947, when they ceded control to the NHL. Ex-hockey player Doug Gilmour delivers the Stanley cup tp contest winner Kevin McNamara Saturday May 21, 2011. The playoff format has been tweaked so that each division champion will be represented in the Stanley Cup Semifinals and teams will be re-seeded in the third round. The 2007 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2006–07 season, and the culmination of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs.It was contested between the Western Conference champion Anaheim Ducks and the Eastern Conference champion Ottawa Senators.It was the second appearance in the Final for Anaheim since 2003 (known at the time as the Mighty … Game Notes: Despite the win, the Senators were outshout 29-25. [70] For example, the Detroit Red Wings received special permission from the NHL to inscribe the name of Vladimir Konstantinov, whose career ended after a car accident on June 13, 1997, on the Stanley Cup after Detroit defended their title in 1998. Each winning team, at its own expense, may have the club name and year engraved on a silver ring fitted on the Cup. The ice became soft and pools of water developed. On February 14, 1896, the Winnipeg squad defeated the champions 2–0 and became the first team outside the AHAC to win the Cup. He is followed by Jean Beliveau and Yvan Cournoyer of the Canadiens with ten championships, Claude Provost of the Canadiens with nine, and three players tied with eight: Red Kelly (four with the Red Wings, four with the Leafs, the most for any player who was not a member of the Canadiens) and Canadiens players Jacques Lemaire, Maurice Richard. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. Beliveau's name appears on the Cup more than any other individual, ten times as a player and seven times as management for a total of seventeen times. A controversy erupted when a letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. [49] Under Campbell's proposal, the NHL champion would have played the WHA champion for the right to face the European champion. The location of the series was under dispute. The 1905–06 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's twenty-first season, saw the Silver Seven defend their Stanley Cup championship in two challenges, but lose the Cup in a league playoff with the Montreal Wanderers.The Club moved to the new Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) formed in … The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner. [6], Currently, the Cup stands at 89.5 centimetres (35¼ inches) tall and weighs 15½ kilograms (34½ lb). In the end, Campbell's proposal went nowhere – eventually, the NHL resolved the WHA challenge by agreeing to merge with its rival, by which time the older league had quietly withdrawn its support for the idea. Ticket receipts from the challenge games are to be split equally between both teams. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". Since 1926, no non-NHL team has played for the Cup, leading it to become the de facto championship trophy of the NHL. I have for some time been thinking that it would be a good thing if there were a challenge cup which should be held from year to year by the champion hockey team in the Dominion [of Canada]. Also included was the 1918–19 no decision between the Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans. 1/6. [36] One year later, when the Maritime league folded, the NHA and the PCHA concluded a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other for the Cup, similar to baseball's World Series, which is played between the American League and National League champions. On March 17, in the first ever Stanley Cup playoff game, the Montreal Hockey Club (Montreal HC) defeated the Montreal Victorias, 3–2. 2/6. The following Senators players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup, Stanley Cup awarded on challenge basis 1893–1914, by prearranged inter-league competitions 1915–1926, to NHL champion since 1927, "1919–20 Stanley Cup Winner: Ottawa Senators", "hockeyleaguehistory.com – Pacific Coast Hockey Association", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1920_Stanley_Cup_Finals&oldid=1001305212, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ‡ Played rover position in the Stanley Cup Finals. After the Portland Rosebuds, an American-based team, joined the PCHA in 1914, the trustees promptly issued a formal statement that the Cup was no longer for the best team in Canada, but now for the best team in the world. The Stanley Cup Final was technically a best of three series. [40] After that season, the NHA dissolved, and the National Hockey League (NHL) took its place. [27] The first professional competition came one month later during the Wanderers' two-game, total goals challenge series, which they won 17 goals to 5.[28]. It was not awarded in 1919 because of the Spanish flu epidemic and in 2005 because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. TAMPA, Fla. — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves for his second straight shutout and 23rd overall and the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 5-0 on Saturday night in the first Stanley Cup rematch of the season. Each Senator received $390.19 in prize money, while each Metropolitan received $319.39.[5]. [37], The Spanish influenza epidemic forced the Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans to cancel the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals after game five, marking the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded. penalties. The decision of the Arbitration Board shall be final. The 2007 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2006–07 season, and the culmination of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs.It was contested between the Western Conference champion Anaheim Ducks and the Eastern Conference champion Ottawa Senators.It was the second appearance in the Final for Anaheim since 2003 (known at the time as the Mighty … Patrick J. Baskerville, Ottawa (2nd Vice-President) W. P. Lunny, Shamrocks (Secretary-Treasurer) ... 4 Players who won the Stanley Cup with the Wanderers in 1908 are missing from the team picture – Larry Gilmour^, Tom Hooper^, Jimmy" Gardner^, Harry Smith^. [20] Naturally, the Ottawas were upset by the decision because there had been no challenge games scheduled and because the trustees failed to convey the rules on how the Cup was to be awarded prior to the start of the season. Currently, to qualify for automatic engraving, a player: However, since 1994 teams have been permitted to petition the NHL Commissioner, to be considered on a case-by-case basis, to engrave a player's name on the cup if the player was unavailable to play due to "extenuating circumstances". During that time, organized ice hockey in Canada was still in its infancy and onl… Blackhawks have names engraved on Stanley Cup", "Ray, meet Stanley: Finally! In the event of a vacancy, the remaining trustee names the replacement for the deceased or resigned Trustee. [85][86], The Stanley Cup did a second tour in Afghanistan as part of a "Team Canada visit" in March 2008. [61], In 1908, for reasons unknown, the Wanderers, despite having turned aside four challengers, did not record their names on the Cup. OTTAWA SENATORS. [5] By its 125th anniversary in 2017, the Stanley Cup had had 3,177 names engraved on it; of those, 1,331 belong to players.[69]. Darragh scored at the 14-minute mark of the first period. The PCHA proposed playing the series in Winnipeg, but this was still not agreed to by the NHL. There are technically three versions of the "Stanley Cup": the original 1892 bowl or Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, 1963 authenticated "Presentation Cup", and the 1993 "Permanent Cup" at the Hall of Fame. The Cup is automatically awarded to the team that wins the title of the previous Cup champion's league, without the need for any other special extra contest. Hockey . By this time, all Cup Trustees were longtime NHL loyalists, and under the direction of NHL President Clarence Campbell the WHA's challenge for the Cup was blocked. A website known as freestanley.com (since closed) was launched, asking fans to write to the Cup trustees and urge them to return to the original Challenge Cup format. Stanley Cup | Ottawa Citizen. Three leagues competed for the Cup: two league champions faced each other for the right to challenge the third champion in the final series. A monument of the Stanley Cup was unveiled in Ottawa Saturday night. Jack Darragh scored the game-winning goal with four minutes to play on an assist from Eddie Gerard. The score remained 1–1 after two periods. Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club. The Senators won two Stanley Cup challenges in 1910 as well, and are considered to be eleven-time Stanley Cup champions b… [61] Since then, engraving the team and its players has been an unbroken annual tradition. Although his term as Governor General ended in September 1893, he was forced to return to England on July 15. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. … Join the mailing list to receive daily email updates. One of the oldest sporting trophies in the world, the Cup is the symbol of hockey supremacy in North America. The visit gave both American troops and a visiting Canadian unit the thrill of seeing the trophy at close hand. The AHAC had no tie-breaking system. [64] This version was made in secret, and first awarded in 1970. The dispute lasted so long that, by the time it was settled, the NHL had resumed operating for the 2005–06 season, and the Stanley Cup went unclaimed for the 2004–05 season.