BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?

Subject: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:39 AM

There seems to be a startling lack of speculation about this.

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 11:08 AM

Is there a lack of speculation or a lack of a cup?

There are now at least two of us speculating, (not a pretty sight).

Perhaps Stanley has it?

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 11:09 AM

Just speculating...........

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 12:08 PM

it being still August, I am not a bit surprised....
I'd be glad to speculate about the Stanley Steamer, though.

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 12:51 PM

I heard a story on the radio last week that whoever it is who actually posesses the cup now tried to take it on a plane in a carryon bag, but a flight attendent left it behind saying it was too heavy. It's just under 40 pounds, is my understanding--that seems an odd excuse. Anyway, I think the party and the trophy were reunited.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 12:54 PM

Doesn't Ollie have a cup as well?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 12:55 PM

Here it is (this from USA Today).

Stanley Cup temporarily lost in luggage mishap
Posted 8/23/2004

FORT ST. JOHN, British Columbia (AP) — The Stanley Cup spent Sunday night in luggage limbo. The fabled trophy disappeared during an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Fort St. John over the weekend when Vancouver airline officials removed it from the plane because of weight restrictions. Walter Neubrand, keeper of the Cup, was delivering the trophy to Jake Goertzen, head scout for the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

As the two waited by the baggage claim, it didn't take long for them to realize something was wrong. "We were waiting for it to come out," Goertzen said. "Everybody's bag was there, except the Cup." Air Canada agents checked the plane but there was no sign of the Cup or its special travel container.

After a call to Vancouver, they learned the 35-pound Cup was sitting in the Vancouver airport's luggage area 750 miles away. It was too heavy to fly.

Goertzen described the situation as a nightmare. "(Neubrand) told them specifically it was the Stanley Cup," Goertzen said. "He is just so distraught."

Fitness gym owner Brent Lock, who had planned to view the Cup Sunday night, said he doesn't understand how Air Canada could have left it behind. "It's not like it's a brown paper bag; it's the holy grail," he said. "It's probably the most important non-religious artifact in Canada."

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 01:00 PM

Holy Grail is the most important non-religious artefact? It begs the question, "What is the most important religious artifact in Canada", and does it have anything to do with ice hockey?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 05:00 PM

The Stanley Cup as we once knew it was devoured by a corporate oligarchy. They took over a once proud game, based on a genuine regional culture, and turned it into a gladiatorial spectacle. They expanded the number of teams and clubs until the game lost all relevance as a cultural expression and became merely another form of mass entertainment. The Stanley Cup lost its soul sometime in the 1970's and has become an empty symbol of something that once was real, but is no longer.

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: GUEST,Mooh
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 09:46 PM

Yeah LH, but I still cling hopelessly to the dream.

Go Leafs Go!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: GUEST,newsman
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 11:40 AM

Last I heard, Stanley was wearing his cup...

Subject: RE: BS: What ever happened to theStanley Cup?
From: robomatic
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 10:40 PM

So I was out walking during lunch hour in downtown Anchorage a couple years ago, and a bunch of black cars and a limo come down G Street and there's a big hullabaloo outside that great bar called (I kid you not) Darwin's Theory. And it's Scottie with the Stanley. I won't say I saw it treated with disrespect, but a great deal of familiarity was being shown.