Origins: No sports trophy can boast a history to rival that of hockey's Stanley Cup. This silver behemoth is the oldest trophy which professional athletes in North America vie for and is awarded each year to the winner of the playoffs held between the teams of the National Hockey League. The Cup's history is rich and is continually being embellished because one special circumstance sets it apart from other high-ranking sports awards: each year members of the winning team are allowed to take the Cup home with them. While other awards might spend their existences in the well-guarded trophy cases of official shrines to their particular sports, the Stanley Cup regularly hits the road with the very lads who won possession of it. And it is its life outside the trophy case which has given the Cup a lively history independent of the hockey triumphs it commemorates. The cup itself (donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley, then Governor General of Canada) measures 7 inches high by 11 inches across. A banded base has since been added to it, bringing the trophy to a weight of 36 pounds and a height of 35 inches. The names of every team (and most of the players) who have won the Cup since 1893 are engraved upon it. The first winner of the Stanley Cup (then called the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup) was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) hockey club, champions of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada for 1893. The National Hockey