A heart-stirring requiem mass has taken place at the Minsk ice hockey arena, where this evening local side Dynamo were supposed to take on Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the team which tragically died in Wednesday’s plane crash. All tickets for the game had been sold long before the tragedy. Soon after the sad news spread worldwide, the game’s organizers decided to arrange a mass at the arena, honoring the legacy of the team. Not a single ticket had been returned as the ceremony was held in the packed arena. Each spectator brought flowers. All the Belarusian leadership, including President Aleksandr Lukashenko, were present at the event. Never was the arena that silent as 37 huge portraits of the players and staff were placed on the ice. A requiem mass was performed by an orchestra, while portraits of the departed Yaroslavl friends and icons appeared on the scoreboard. Each picture was met with a storm of applause, after which the Dynamo players scored a puck each in their own net. Similar ceremonies were held on Thursday evening in a dozen Russian and CIS cities

Yaroslavl Lokomotiv In Memory

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Tribute

A song by Brand New and pictures of the late team. A great loss for hoceky fans around the world

Видео к несостоявшемуся сезону 2011/2012 ХК Локомотив, Ярославль – REST IN PEACE BOYS

Coca Cola commercial with Ice Hockey Broadcaster legend Foster Hewitt’s famous saying – He Shoots, He Scores

Michael J Fox with images of him playing Ice Hockey

HC Metallurg. Razdevalka gruppi podderjki – Russian Cheerleaders

Andrew Ference Day with The Stanley Cup in Boston had some dancing to Queen – We Are The Champions

Slovak National Ball Hockey Team Member Ends Career with World Cup of Ball Hockey 2011 Championship. Lucie Muzikova Interviews Tibor Kapanek

Canadian Passport for Frederick Arthur Stanley – Lord Stanley – from November 22, 1890

Dictionary of Canada Biography of Lord Stanley

Parliament of Canada – In the Senate Speakers Chambers

Why the heck is the Stanley Cup called, well…the Stanley Cup? Who was this Stanley guy and why is hockey’s most prestigious trophy named after him

Biography from the Hockey Hall of Fame

Information from the Governor General of Canada Office Archives

The Stanley Cup

Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

Information from the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society

Information from the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society

Mr. President and gentlemen,
The best use that I can make of this wonder of the age, the phonograph, is to bid you, on behalf of the citizens of the Dominion of Canada, the most hearty welcome and to assure you that we are at all times most happy to meet our friends from the United States in the pursuit of song, of art and all that may embellish the human life. We bid you a very hearty welcome.

Sweden’s National Team Goalie Kim Martin faces 53 shots from Team Canada, and Sweden beats Canada for only the 2nd time. Story here and stats and photos from IIHF 12 Nations Tournament Series for Women’s Ice Hockey

International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF published the 2011 survey of registered players from around the world. There are 1.55 million registered players, up from 1.51 registered players in 2010. Click Here for breakdown of each country

Michael Ryder’s day with the Stanley Cup puts dent on the side of the bowl. At a public viewing of the Cup on the rooftop of hotel near Ryder’s hometown of Bonavista, Newfoundland, the trophy took a tumble off when the table it was sitting on collapsed. The fall put a nice little dent in the top of the trophy. VIDEO HERE
PLEASE NOTE: This is not the Original Stanley Cup, this is the Presentation Cup that was dented.
The Presentation Cup was made in the late 1960s by Carl Poul Peterson.

Carl Poul Petersen is the most famous Stanley Cup engraver. Born in Denmark, he and his wife moved to Montreal in 1929, finding employment with Henry Birks & Sons. In 1937 he branched out on his own with sons Arno, Ole and John Paule. By the mid 1940s Carl Poul Petersen’s work became world famous for his fine craftsmanship.

With the NHL head offices then still in Montreal, the NHL commissioned Petersen to redesign the “Stovepipe Cup” first in 1947 with a final redesign as we know it in 1957. In 1968 he was commissioned to create a replica of the original Stanley Cup bowl, due to the aging structure’s fragility. Until 1961 Petersen’s shop was the home of the Stanley Cup, packed away out of sight. Petersen was the sole Stanley Cup engraver until his death in 1977. His family, specifically son Arno, continued the engraving until 1979 when they shut down the famous silversmith shop.

The NHL then hired Montreal based Boffey Promotions, known best for the work of owner Eric Boffey and later son Doug Boffey. But since 1989 only Louise St. Jacques, an employee turned part-owner of Boffey Promotions, engraves the Stanley Cup. She is also in charge of creating the 13 inch replica Cups given to players and other team officials. She alone recreated the entire Stanley Cup when the Hockey Hall of Fame had a complete replica produced in 1994 so that fans visiting the HHOF could see a Stanley Cup should the real Cup be on tour.

By the way, the term engraved is technically wrong even though it is universally used in association with the Stanley Cup. In actuality, each letter is individually stamped using a letter bit and small hammer. Boffey Inc. uses the original punching tools as Petersen used since the redesign in 1947. These tools are never used for any other project; they are the exclusive domain of the Stanley Cup.

Petersen and now St. Jacques are also the only people who engrave all other NHL trophies.

The Rocket scores his 500th NHL goal on Oct 19, 1957