The Cup quickly sank in the deep end of the pool. By the time we did get it up, we had put some, uh, mileage on it. Soon, there was more mileage. Some of the players piled into a limo to go to a downtown restaurant. At red lights, people were getting out of cars, coming up to shake our hands and see the Cup.
Players share it with their families, share it with their cities, their fans.
It's everybody's trophy. Gelinas was just 19 in 1990 when the Oilers won. He took the Cup to a house where he lived during the season and soon had neighbors and strangers alike gawking at it, touching it, guzzling beer out of it. The original Cup, the one Lord Stanley bought from a London silversmith and then donated, was about seven inches high and mounted on an ebony base. It was rebuilt into a one-piece trophy in 1948.