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The Stanley Cup Will Soon Meet New Adventures
by Paul on 06/12/11 at 10:39 AM ET
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from the CP at The Hockey News,
Sometime, in the next week, the cup will travel in a non-descript but very secure case to the hometown of the 2011 Stanley Cup champions—either Boston or Vancouver.
From there, it will begin the next chapter of its storied life, a life Pritchard has seen up close during the past two decades.
He travels around the world with the cup, purchased from a London, England silversmith in 1893 and awarded to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association later that year by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Canada’s governor general at the time.
While on Pritchard’ watch, the cup has travelled to some remote locations, like Kandahar, Afghanistan and Yekaterinburg, Russia, the latter being about 1,667 kilometres northeast of Moscow and hometown to Pavel Datsyuk, a member of the Detroit Red Wings’ 2007-2008 championship team.Despite its remoteness, he said, Yekaterinburg’s residents were not unfamiliar with the cup.
“We could have been in Northern Ontario; we could have been in Minnesota,” said Pritchard. “I mean, people had Red Wings’ shirts on. They had pucks, you know, they had mini sticks to get signed. Other than the language, you wouldn’t know where you were.”
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