Det News blogger drinks from Stanley Cup and brags

Yeah, but no worries, it was disinfected by the chlorine the day it was at the bottom of Mario Lemieux's pool.

 

Fantastic way to put it.

This Detroit guy is bush league and an embarrassment to those who would never do that, especially while working.

 

Not all players. The Sens picked it up last year (and lost, of course) while New Jersey's Scott Stevens picked up the Wales Trophy three times and won every time. The year he didn't pick it up they lost to Colorado

 

I agree with Smash, I don't see the harm in touching the Cup, but I wouldn't ever lift it or drink from it. And even touching, I'd certainly never get fanboyish while working to do so.

I do agree with Buck too that it has been to many parties where there certainly isn't that level of respect or reverence.

 

Having been in the Red Wings locker room immediately after the 1997 Cup win, I can tell you that several media people, including me, took sips out of the Cup because we were told by a certain player that is still on the team that we could either do that or wear the contents.

(I've spent 11 years trying not to think about the contents.)

That said, I didn't write about it or get my picture taken or brag about it. I just have a policy of trying to avoid getting drenched in cheap champagne. Only time I failed was at, of all places, a WNBA championship.

 

Yzerman picked it up and skated right off the ice with it one other year that the Wings won. There was an Eastern Conference team, I'm thinking Buffalo but not sure, that also did it.

So yea, there have been some players that have touched it, but no one has ever put the conference trophies over their head and skated around the ice.

 

Airlines have a funny way of fucking with the Cup too.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/23/stanleycup_040823.html
http://espn.go.com/nhl/news/2003/0804/1590116.html

 

True story, and I was thinking about it pretty much the whole time I was reading this thread. Nice job.

 

Dents can be taken care of, you know.

 

This is wild. When I read this thread I agreed with everyone who thought it was unprofessional of the photog to drink from the Stanley Cup.
At the risk of outing myself, I'm a reporter who was just given the opportunity to drink from the Calder Cup, awarded to the Chicago Wolves after winning the American Hockey League.
I politely declined. Thanks for the advance guidance from my fellow Fourth Estaters. Though I know I wouldn't have done it anyway, it's good to know I'm of the right mind.

 

I think the unprofessional part was doing it and writing/bragging about it. Lookit meeee, lookit meee....