Mario Lemieux's Crazy Pool Party

Sid the Kid and company decide to go swimming with the Silver Stanley Cup

As we all know, last Friday the Pittsburgh Penguins upset the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to win their third stanley cup and first since 1992. Mario Lemieux has his name on all three (2 as a player and 1 as owner) and decided after a long day of parades and confetti to have a pool party for his team, their families and closest friends. What resulted is seen in the photo above: the Stanley Cup in the pool.

Chlorine aside, the cup is made of silver so I can assume that is not a very good thing for the 35-pound trophy. Alas, it ads another story of Stanley Cup lore. Here are some other wacky stories involving the oldest trophy in sports:

• After a night of celebrating their Stanley Cup victory in 1905, members of the Ottawa Silver Seven felt it necessary to see if one could kick the Cup into Ottawa's Rideau Canal. One of them lined it up and gave it a boot, drop-kick style. In a true test of his accuracy and distance, the Cup landed on target, in the canal. That established, the boys went on their merry way, and the Cup stayed in the Canal until the next day when sober heads prevailed and Lord Stanley's mug was rescued. It was then placed in the capable hands of Harry Smith, a Silver Seven member.

• During the 1962 playoffs, the Cup sat on display in a huge glass case in the Chicago Stadium lobby. A Montreal fan, Ken Kilander, was upset with the Stanley Cup being in Chicago. He opened the glass case and when no alarms went off, reached in and grabbed the Cup off its stand. Kilander crept through the stadium lobby and headed for the exit doors. He was just a few yards from the exit when a police officer spotted Kilander and asked him why he was taking the Stanley Cup out of Chicago Stadium. "I want to take it back where it belongs," Kilander explained, "To Montreal."

• In 1996, Colorado Avalanche defenseman Sylvain Lefebvre christened his child in the bowl of the Stanley Cup after his championship season.
  
  

For more tales of Stanley Cup lore, visit http://www.hhof.com/LegendsOfHockey/html/silver_stTales.htm.