captain Guy Carbonneau said, "does not float." Too bad they hadn't thought to ask Mario Lemieux -- in 1991 hockey's grail had reposed at the bottom of his pool after a teammate took a dive with it in his arms. In 1996 the Cup was credited with the assist on a goal scored by the stork. The Rileys, a married couple who had been trying to have a baby for fourteen years, had given up hope of having that particular dream fulfilled because the doctors pegged Cheryl Riley's chances of conceiving somewhere between slim and none. Then Mike Ricci of the Colorado Avalanche brought the Cup to a party attended by Cheryl. On a whim she kissed the Cup. Shortly thereafter she delightedly discovered she was pregnant. By counting backwards she determined she must have conceived somewhere during the weekend she bussed the Cup, if not even that very night. The resulting child was born on 6 May 1997 and christened Stanley C. Gordon Jeff Riley. The "C" stands for "cup." The days of the Cup's more colorful exploits may well be over -- now a representative of the Hockey Hall of Fame accompanies it wherever it goes.