The Stanley Cup was broken throughout Florida Panthers’ celebration of their title

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Stanley Cup is a bit banged up, because of the Florida Panthers’ celebration of back-to-back titles.

The bowl of the well-known trophy is cracked and the underside is dented. Not for the primary time and certain not the final.

The Panthers gained their second consecutive championship on residence ice Tuesday night time, beating Edmonton in six video games. The crew, following many years of custom, partied with the Cup into the wee hours and stored the revelry entering into Fort Lauderdale nicely into Wednesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the Hockey Corridor of Fame stated the keepers of the Cup are taking the suitable steps and plan to have it repaired by the celebration parade on Sunday. Fabricated from silver and a nickel alloy, the 37-pound Cup is comparatively malleable.

Harm is nothing new for the 131-year-old silver chalice that has been submerged in swimming pools and the Atlantic Ocean and mishandled by gamers, coaches and employees for greater than a century.

Simply this decade alone, the Tampa Bay Lightning dropped the Cup throughout their boat parade in 2021 and the Colorado Avalanche dented it on the ice the night time they gained the next yr.