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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. Rules and Equipment


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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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President Barack Obama on Thursday lived the dream of young hockey players growing up all over the United States, Canada and eastern Europe: he lifted the Stanley Cup.
ART: PHOTOS CUTLINE: (1) Hal Gill poses for a photo with the Stanley Cup and members of the Nashoba Regional hockey team and coach Steve Kendall.
The last team to capture the Stanley Cup the year after succumbing in the finals was Edmonton in 1984.
 
 
 
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