That is THE CUP.......Its always handled by the"handlers" with white gloves so as not to wear out the truly expensive silver engravings.
there is another "travel cup" that the players all get to share.
Here's a little story about my nephew. He was training in thorasic surgery with the University of Pittsburgh hospital. One day while working in the emergency room, he happened to treat a man for burns. The conversation turned to hockey (my nephew was an all state defenseman in his high school senior year, played hockey for Williams College in Mass., graduated took a year off from school to play semi-pro hockey in Europe, came home and went to med school at U of M)
The guy he was talking to happend to be a son or something of a person who one of the hockey divisions was named after.(I never got the name). They guy invited my nephew to his house the following weekend for party he was giving. It was a huge house and a lot of the guests turned out to be ex-NHL players. Thats when my nephew realized who the guy was.
Anyway, these ex-NHL stars played hockey on a regular basis at the Penguin arena and they invited my nephew to come out and play with them, which he did. Then they invited him to play with them whenever they participated in charity fund raiser.........So he continued to skate and play with those guys while he was in Pittsburgh until he moved on to Harvard a few years ago.
Anyway, two Red Wing Stanleys ago, my nephew and my other nephew were at the final game together when the Wings won it. My nephew then got a call from one of the guys on that charity team inviting he and my other nephew to the private party the wings were having that night following the game. (It turns out my nephew's friend was a financial planner for several of the red wing players)........Anyway, my nephews both got to party with the wings and have their pictures taken with Yzerman, Scottie Bowman and several other players........that was cool.
The Cup has a double?
I did not know that.
Looks like I won't be drinking out of the Cup again this year since Detroit lost, but maybe next year!