FIRST HOIST, FIRST PASS: When a championship team is crowned in a best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final, the winning team is congratulated by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who then invites the team captain to claim the trophy. The Stanley Cup then is passed around to every player and team member.The NHL offers the same deal. Over the summer, each player and staff member from the Stanley Cup-winning team gets to take The Cup home. It's their own business what they do with it.Every 13 years when the bottom band of the Stanley Cup is filled with names of champions, the top band is removed and retired to be displayed in the vault of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

How much is a Stanley Cup ring worth : The average cost for championship rings today is between $20,000 to $25,000 per ring. Including players, coaches, staff, and others, handing out rings can cost a team upwards of $1 million. Surprisingly, the history of Stanley Cup championship rings goes all the way back to 1893, the first year of the Stanley Cup.

Who broke the Stanley Cup

Some guys things just can't handle Vegas. Cassidy didn't go into too much detail about exactly what happened that caused the Stanley Cup to break, but he can rest assured the Golden Knights are not the only team to have damaged hockey's holy grail.

Who has 3 Stanley Cups :

NAME	CHAMPS	PPA
Patrick Kane	3	291
Evgeni Malkin	3	313
Sidney Crosby	3	388
Marc-Andre Fleury	3	2

In 1924, the victorious Montreal Canadiens mistakenly left the Cup in a snowbank after stopping to change a flat tire on the way to a party – fortunately, they remembered later that evening. The Stanley Cup has also been stolen.

Stanley Cup Rings are not an official “thing.” There is a long-running, but inconsistent, tradition of the winning team purchasing championship rings for players, staff, and even broadcasters. They'll also sometimes buy a few to raffle off and sell to fans.

Has anyone’s name been removed from the Stanley Cup

Chicago Blackhawks – KRIS VERTSEEG was corrected to KRIS VERSTEEG and in 2021, Brad Aldrich's name was removed by being covered with Xs after illegal actions. The misspelled 1980-81 New York Islanders engraving. The 1983-84 Edmonton Oilers engraving with the X'd out Basil Pocklington.10 NHL Players with the Most Stanley Cups

• Mark Messier & 13 Players (Six Stanley Cups)
• Jean-Guy Talbot (Seven Stanley Cups)
• Serge Savard (Eight Stanley Cups)
• Jacques Lemaire (Eight Stanley Cups)
• Red Kelly (Eight Stanley Cups)
• Maurice “The Rocket” Richard (Eight Stanley Cups)
• Claude Provost (Nine Stanley Cups)

Athletes are a superstitious bunch, as a rule.

And hockey is no exception. Of all the superstitions and lucky omens that the game has, there is one that is above all. You never touch the Stanley Cup until you have rightfully won it.

Boston Bruins
National Hockey League – number of Stanley Cups won by team from 1915 to 2023

Characteristic	Stanley Cups won
Boston Bruins	6
Chicago Blackhawks	6
Edmonton Oilers	5
Pittsburgh Penguins	5

Who has 11 Stanley Cups : Canadiens legend Henri Richard, 11-time Stanley Cup champion, posthumously diagnosed with CTE.

Who has 0 Stanley Cups : There are 11 teams that have yet to win a Stanley Cup:

• Arizona Coyotes.
• Buffalo Sabres.
• Columbus Blue Jackets.
• Florida Panthers.
• Minnesota Wild.
• Nashville Predators.
• Ottawa Senators.
• San Jose Sharks.

Do the wives get a Stanley Cup ring

Not unless the team is willing to have one made for the player's spouse. If the player's spouse is dead set on getting a Stanley Cup ring, then the husband can arrange it with the team at the husband's expense if the team is unwilling to pick up the cost.

Bossy's 1980 Islanders championship ring brought $222,000. Then his 1981 ring surpassed it at $228,000. His daughter Josiane recently told Newsday that she decided to sell her half of the memorabilia she inherited from her father, who died of lung cancer in April 2022, but that her sister Tanya opted to keep hers.However, the engravers have been known to make mistakes, which live on the cup to this day. For example, the 1962-63 Stanley Cup Champion Toronto Maple Leafs had their name misspelled as TORONTO MAPLE LEAES. The 1971-72 Stanley Cup Champion Bruins had the city of Boston misspelled as BQSTQN BRUINS.

When was the last ring removed from the Stanley Cup : In order to maintain the size of the modern-era Cup, rings must be retired every 13 years: The ring featuring the 1940-41 through 1952-53 champs was retired after the 2005-06 season, the ring featuring the 1953-54 through 1964-65 champs was retired after the 2017-18 season and the next ring will be retired after the …