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Stanley Cup
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Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal.

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Stanley Cup

Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston (1841–1908), the Stanley Cup was first awarded in the 1893–94 season. It is the oldest trophy that can be won by professional athletes in North America.



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With 16,120 games of playing, coaching and management experience over the course of 186 seasons, and 18 Stanley Cups won, the nine members of the Competition Committee, including players Jarome Iginla, Brendan Shanahan, Rob Blake and Trevor Linden, worked hard to make rule changes for the betterment of the game.
After 1,161 NHL games and three Stanley Cups, 39-year-old veteran Mike Keane will do anything to keep playing hockey.
The three stellar defensemen combined for nine Stanley Cups and joined the hall with builder Cliff Fletcher and hockey writer Jim Kelley.
 
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