The cup went pro in 1914, after a several years a mature hockey status. The same year that the great war started we presume that able bodied men competed for it as it was awarded every year in both great wars. Neither the Kaiser nor Hitler stopped fighting for the championship game , and the former Governor General of Canada ,Lord Stanley admonition that the park in Vancouver that also bears his name (and we would think his philosophical outlook on the cup), that it’s 1000 acres be enjoyed by all Peoples customs and creeds for all time went on deaf ears.

The cup was not awarded during the 1919 spanish flu epidemic  and in recent time  a players lockout kept it from being awarded. Now thats civil.

 Would have been nice to see it back in the city that has the great park with his name on it.  Although the chauvinism of that time that spilled into so much grief in the great war is best not reenforced.

The series was a great entertainment and lots of fun. Outcomes are never a sure thing in that game.

editors note: trade  Vancouvers goalie would you….

Today in History,

June 16th,1752

Ben Franklin proves lighting is electricity.