Who owns the Stanley Cup? Not necessarily the NHL. The cup’s trustees, appointed by Lord Stanley in 1892, may have lacked the authority to put the NHL in charge. If that’s the case, the cup could still be awarded this year, to a team meeting the regulations first laid out by Stanley. The NHL maintains this is nonsense. But championing the cause of cup-hungry (Canadian) hockey fans is the Free Stanley Organization. They want to liberate the Stanley Cup from the exclusive control of the NHL, and award it to the best team playing hockey in Canada, per Lord Stanley’s original intent. With emphasis on playing.


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2 Responses to “Who Owns The Stanley Cup”

  1. Bill McCaig on February 3rd, 2005 at 9:35 am :

    I for one am down with taking the cup away from the NHL - why not make it a true world cup of hockey? If Lord Stanley was so enamoured of Canada’s game would he not be interested in seeing it played for at the top level - with no stoppage? If the Soccer leagues of Europe can get it together - what with their many different languages, zealot fan bases and gianormus salaries then the trustees of the, nay, OUR cup need to as well.

  2. des on February 4th, 2005 at 10:31 am :

    The Free Stanley history page (http://www.freestanley.com/…) mentions the FA cup, for which 600 teams compete. How wild would that be for the Stanley Cup? An NHL team would probably still win it every year, but if the London Knights or <shudder> The Mississauga IceDogs were eligible (as Lord Stanley envisioned,) imagine the boost to hockey at ALL levels.