The first season, the Vancouver Millionaires swept the Ottawa Senators in Vancouver to become the first western team to win the Cup. Of the 28 starting players in the PCHA that season, an astounding 14 would later be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (seven Millionaires, three Metropolitans, three Rosebuds, and one Aristocrat). Zu Beginn wurde der Cup als Trophäe für das beste Amateur-Hockeyteam Kanadas verliehen. It has a height of 89.54 centimetres (35.25 inches) and weighs 15.5 kilograms (34.5 lb).Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 103 times by 20 current NHL teams and 5 defunct teams. In his season preview for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reporter Royal Brougham (1894-1978) wrote, "With four of the best teams ever assembled in the history of the sport on the coast, followers of the popular ice sport are holding their breath and waiting for the start of what should be a banner hockey year" ("Hockey Teams In ..."). To date, nine men have served as Trustees of the Stanley Cup: Three players (the There are technically three versions of the "Stanley Cup": the original 1892 bowl or The authenticated version or "Presentation Cup" was created in 1963 by Montreal silversmith Carl Petersen.
Showing all kinds of dash and pep, the Seattle Mets won the 1916-17 championship of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association by trimming the Portland Uncle Sams four goals to three" ("Metropolitans Beat Rose ...").Nineteen-seventeen was the final year in which the PCHA regular season champion went directly into the Stanley Cup Final. The Rosebuds then became the first American team to play for the Stanley Cup, losing in five games to the Canadiens. The lack of any playoff rounds thus amplified the importance of each regular season game, giving the PCHA its finest season. NHL president The replicated "Permanent Cup", was created in 1993 by Montreal silversmith Louise St. Jacques to be used as a stand-in at the Hockey Hall of Fame whenever the Presentation Cup is not available for display.The Stanley Cup has served as a valuable morale booster for both American and Canadian troops, as well as their In 2007, the Stanley Cup made its first trip into a combat zone. Despite the new room, the 1910 Wanderers and the 1911 Senators did not put their names on the Cup. Upon their arrival, Kennedy told reporters, "I do not expect my men to have their feet tonight because of the long trip they have just finished.
As a result, the Cup trustees issued more specific rules on how the trophy should be defended and awarded:Stanley never saw a Stanley Cup championship game, nor did he ever present the Cup. Portland (13-5) dominated the regular season, winning the league title by four games over second-place Seattle and Vancouver (9-9). The next year, the Ottawa Senators added a second band onto the Cup. The next day's "Seattle's valiant hockey team put the climax on a successful ice revolution at the Arena last night, kicked the props from under the tottering Canadien dynasty and climbed rough-shod over the fallen monarchs to the place of power as hockey champions of the universe. They found themselves atop the standings on January 1, 1917. The Metropolitans were 1-6 all-time at Portland, while the Rosebuds were 6-1 that season against Seattle and Vancouver in the Rose City. The Mets opened the season at Vancouver against a supremely talented Millionaires squad. In 1912, Cup trustees declared that it was to be defended only at the end of the champion team's regular season.Several days later, trustee Foran wrote to NHA president Quinn that the trustees are "perfectly satisfied to allow the representatives of the three pro leagues (NHA, PCHA, and Maritime) to make all arrangements each season as to the series of matches to be played for the Cup".Prior to organized ice hockey expanding to any serious extent outside Canada, the concept that the Stanley Cup champion ought to be recognized as the The WHL folded in 1926 and was quickly replaced by the The PHL lasted only two seasons. That offseason, league founder Lester Patrick moved his Victoria franchise to Spokane, rebranding as the Canaries.When the 1916-1917 season began, expectations for the second-year Metropolitans were high. The ultra-confident Canadiens saw no need to follow tradition, thinking themselves unbeatable, and left the Cup in Montreal with manager George Kennedy (1881-1921) bragging, "the Canadiens will win without much effort," and star player Newsy LaLonde chiming in to remind reporters to "not lose sight of the fact that we played the majority of those Mets for two seasons in the East and there is nothing they can show us about hockey" ("Montreal Team Makes ...").So confident were the Canadiens that they stopped to barnstorm on the trip west, setting foot in Seattle only on the morning of Game 1. The dispute lasted so long that, by the time it was settled, the NHL had resumed operating for the In March 2017, to commemorate the Stanley Cup's 125th anniversary, the original Cup and the current Stanley Cup were the focus of a four-day tour of Ottawa, including a stop at Rideau Hall.In 1908, for reasons unknown, the Wanderers, despite having turned aside four challengers, did not record their names on the Cup. Over the next two decades, other leagues and clubs occasionally issued challenges, but none were accepted by the Cup's trustees. Holmes and the Seattle defense ranked first while the Mets' offense finished second.