A stencil was designed last Friday. Company employees worked from Sunday morning until Monday morning getting the trucks ready. Monday's edition of the Russian newspaper Izvestia topped its sports page with news of the Red Wings' victory. Wings Vyacheslav Kozlov and Sergei Fedorov were pictured. The mayor of Detroit has named the Cup championship as a holiday for the whole city.
Special honors await the magnificent Russian five.
Tim Reeves, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge's spokesman, said he hadn't heard of Michigan Gov. John Engler's invitation to wear a Wings jersey and ride a Zamboni in the parade Tuesday. Reeves said Ridge will ride the Zamboni outside the Flyers' home CoreStates Center within a month. We will alert everyone, so that malicious people will have the opportunity to revel in our humiliation. Staff writer Chris Christoff, special writer David McHugh and the Associated Press contributed to this report.