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The first winner of the Stanley Cup was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) hockey club, champions of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada for 1893. Ironically, Lord Stanley never witnessed a championship game nor attended a presentation of his trophy, having returned to his native England in the midst of the 1893 season. Nevertheless, the quest for his trophy has become one of the world's most prestigious sporting competitions.
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In its early days the Stanley Cup was not the property of any single hockey league. As a challenge cup, it changed hands in much the same way as a boxing title. The Cup-holders accepted challenges from other clubs and kept it as long as they could fend off all comers. This is why some years show more than one Stanley Cup winner.
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The Stanley Cup has a mystique about it. Boys will dream and practice for years to try and make an NHL team. Men will compete for the honour of carrying the Cup around the ice in victory, and it can bring both winners and losers to tears.
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The Stanley Cup came to Port Dover, Ontario with Jassen Culimore when the Tampa Bay Lightning won the cup. He was the 4th NHLer to bring the cup to this small hockey town on the shore of Lake Erie. It came to Simcoe, Ontario with Rob Blake when the Colorado Avalanche won the cup. A parade was held in his honor. There was ... a private party for family and friends. The Cup took a ride in a giant grocery cart and on a Ferris wheel at the North Carolina State Fair in October 2006, and visited North Carolina's outer banks, Shackleford Banks in particular, on a fishing skiff over the Fourth of July weekend in 2006.
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The Stanley Cup took a six-hour limousine ride to arrive in Darien, Connecticut on Thursday, August 23. Now, before the day had even begun, Ryan Shannon, the industrious forward who spent his rookie season with the Ducks, instructed everyone on how to pronounce the name of his hometown. “It rhymes with Mary Ann, not Marion like you’d think,” he said. “Just remember Dairy Ann, Dairy Ann.”
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There were no professional hockey leagues in that era, and the Stanley Cup was reserved for the winners of Canada's amateur championship. The first winner was the Montreal AAA team in 1893. For the next 17 years, amateur teams were entitled to "challenge" the reigning champions for possession of the Stanley Cup. A single victory would force the Cup to change hands and many teams took possession it in those early years.
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