  Conman Member Username: Conman Post Number: 54 Registered: 06-2006 |
Its great that the players spend so much time around town sharing the cup with the fans. I have yet to see myself, but soon enough. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 1110 Registered: 05-2004 |
It was at yesterday's Tiger game. Draper and Rafalski both threw out the first balls and had the cup with them at the pitcher's mound. The crowd gave them several standing ovations. Each time they raised the cup. the fans went nuts. | ||
Amgasper01 Member Username: Amgasper01 Post Number: 43 Registered: 02-2008 |
A buddy of mine called me at 7 p.m. yesterday from Cheli's Chili Bar downtown to tell me the cup was there, so I ran down the street and sure enough, Kris Draper was passing it around the bar, letting people drink out of it. I couldn't get close enough to drink out of it, but before he walked it down to the other end of the bar he looked right at me and doused me in beer from the cup! I stood there completely drenched with a chill running down my spine. I'm never going to wash that shirt. What an experience! | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1147 Registered: 01-2006 |
I saw it in the back seat of Nick Lidstom's SUV at the light at Jefferson and Beubien Friday. | ||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 192 Registered: 04-2008 |
It landed in my yard late last night and little red martians came out and tried to attack me! | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1250 Registered: 01-2007 |
I understand it was used in a porn movie as a sex prop before it went to Cheli's Chili. Did it have a funny taste? | ||
Gotdetroit Member Username: Gotdetroit Post Number: 172 Registered: 12-2005 |
The Cup was at Cheli's. I walked across the street when I heard. Most of the team was there. Lidstrom, Zetterberg, Hasek, Osgood, Lilja, Datsyuk, Draper, Drake, Howard, Filppula, Hudler, Kronwall, Ericsson, Chelios, Holmstrom, Rafalski, Samuelson, Franzen, and a few others I've forgotten. I took pictures. Posted a few. I'll post more later. It was pretty cool. They went out back afterwards and say songs with everyone. http://forums.gotdetroit.com/s howthread.php?p=1894#post1894 | ||
Deandub11 Member Username: Deandub11 Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2006 |
Bunch of the Wings were at dick o dows in birmingham on friday night around 130 am. A friend of mine drove about 5 wings back to chelli's house from the bar with the cup in the back of his range rover. Hudler, Zetterberg and others were in the car. www.DetroitArmy.com | ||
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan Post Number: 272 Registered: 02-2007 |
oh man..wihsh I would have known the cup was at chelis...I would have drove up there just for that! | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 729 Registered: 01-2007 |
Wouldn't it be cool to be caretaker of the cup? Seeing the world on the NHL's dime. James | ||
Pete Member Username: Pete Post Number: 112 Registered: 10-2003 |
the Cup left Cheli's last night with Rafalski and headed to Foran's for about half an hour, where there were maybe ten people sitting around the bar. no mad rush, not mob. Rafalski was feeding everyone beer from the Cup and letting people pose for as many pictures as they wanted. that is kick ass. | ||
Mama_jackson Member Username: Mama_jackson Post Number: 363 Registered: 06-2006 |
LOL, I was just thinking about when the Cup is presented to the Wings, the guys have white gloves and handle it so carefully. Then they turn it over to the team.... Did Rafalski wear white gloves to pass out the beer? | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 1786 Registered: 08-2007 |
Ya know Mama_jackson - the night they won the cup, that is the exact thing I said to my husband. Look how carefully that cup is attended to - the guys are wearing white gloves and handling it so carefully - Now that poor cup is going to be handled by all sorts of methods!  | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 8922 Registered: 10-2003 |
According to the manager and owner of Foran's after the Cup arrived the place went off the hook! | ||
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave Post Number: 152 Registered: 09-2006 |
ive heard the cup has been in all manner of goop and gunk and the cup itself was bent out of shape when it was DROPPED. so yeah, seeing the white gloves gives me a chuckle... im not sure ill ever see it except at the hall of fame. i dont know anyone who would have it or where it might be soon enough to go see it.  | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 844 Registered: 10-2003 |
Im not a big sports fan but love the wings. I was at the Rolling Stones concert hangin outside tryin to catch as much free music as I could. This was I believe right after the Wings won the cup last time. This dude comes running out of ford field in a Yzerman jersey screaming "yzerman just signed my jersey" I felt pretty good for that guy. What a great day for him. | ||
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce Post Number: 818 Registered: 10-2003 |
Am I the only one who sees the analogy to getting the girl? Prom dress on, prom dress off... | ||
Mdoyle Member Username: Mdoyle Post Number: 437 Registered: 10-2006 |
I was at my buddies place downtown on Saturday when some drunkard walks by hollering about getting drenched in beer by kris draper @ cheli's. I sort of wrote him off but as it turns out I missed my chance to drink from the cup. I'll probably never get that chance again. The wings seem to be bringing the cup to the people more now than ever before. Dousing people with beer from it, letting fans touch, drink from pick up and even drop the cup I somehow don't believe this happens in every city. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 1100 Registered: 02-2004 |
everyone told me the cup was at house of shamrocks in hazel park just before i got there at 10:30. | ||
Amgasper01 Member Username: Amgasper01 Post Number: 44 Registered: 02-2008 |
Mdoyle, were you at the Fyfe Building? If so, I was that drunkard! | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1149 Registered: 01-2006 |
Karsch and Anderson on 97.1fm are compiling a complete timeline of the stanley cup here in Detroit. It's pretty funny! | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 206 Registered: 08-2006 |
For the home-gamers; http://maps.google.com/maps/ms ?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=11739986488 9310066843.00044f3ed690088df05 80 | ||
Mdoyle Member Username: Mdoyle Post Number: 438 Registered: 10-2006 |
Haha hey Amgasper01! Sorry we had our doubts... you did make us smell your shirt. | ||
Gotdetroit Member Username: Gotdetroit Post Number: 173 Registered: 12-2005 |
Amgasper01: Did I run into you in the hallway, invite you out for a beer? If this is you, you were hammered. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 207 Registered: 08-2006 |
Mdoyle, well, now we know how we'd treat each other out in public...I do like to hearing these stories-a classmate last year was telling me how her husband called her while hanging with a (gaggle?) of mighty buzzed Ducks over @ J.T. Schmid's, this gaudy sportsbar right across from The Pond in Anaheim where the fans grab a pint, or a pitcher, or 2-and they were shootin' the stuff; signing jerseys & talking on patron's cellphones to cousins back East & posing for pictures, in short; it's the type of camaderie with fans & each other that win championships | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 412 Registered: 10-2003 |
On the Google map, who took the Stanley Cup to: 23420 John R Rd Hazel Park, MI 48030 The House of Shamrock? | ||
Amgasper01 Member Username: Amgasper01 Post Number: 45 Registered: 02-2008 |
GotDetroit, yeah, that's me, but that's probably Friday night you're refering to. I was in check the rest of the weekend. The parade gott he best of me, though. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1245 Registered: 11-2005 |
They just walked it by my desk here at work in Detroit. I know nothing about hockey and couldn't care less about it, to be honest, but they had a guy carrying it wearing white gloves. Struck me as funny. The cup has its own security team. Is this true in all cities or just in Detroit? | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 3004 Registered: 10-2003 |
There is a man dedicated to the care and feeding of the cup. He is an NHL employee. He travels with it, everywhere it goes. I don't know of any other similar trophy that is allowed out in the wild. | ||
Histeric Member Username: Histeric Post Number: 913 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tim and Steve, the owners of Forans, have been friends with Brian Rafalski since elementary school, so it meant a lot to him to be honored with a visit from Brian with the SC. I was in front of Music Hall waiting for my daughter (who had just danced in a recital) when I got the call from Tim that the cup was on its way. It worked out perfect as I already had the kids with me. They both got pictures and autographs with BR and the SC. Me? I gotta a big chug of good beer from the SC, poured by Brian himself, all down the front of me. It was a blast. Just what the doctor ordered. Definitely one for the memory books and photo albums. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1150 Registered: 01-2006 |
Ndavies, I hate to nitpick, but he's an employee of the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL. The HHoF is not operated by the NHL. Sorry, I just had to make the correction, though I know it is probably irrelevant. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 637 Registered: 02-2008 |
Any Presidents Trophy sightings? | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 654 Registered: 02-2008 |
Osgood and Lidstrom on Leno with the cup. Funny thing, they let a guy in the audience come on stage, he had a Gerard Gallant jersey on. Can't wait till the go on Letterman, maybe will see a Willy Huber jersey. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 1101 Registered: 02-2004 |
yeah house of shamrocks....xd brooklyn | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1154 Registered: 01-2006 |
I hope their appearance on Letterman is better written and longer than Leno. I cant believe I stayed up late to watch Jay ask just 1 question and a goofy scripted song. I've always liked Letterman anyway, and considering he is a big hockey fan, I would expect them to get more than 30 seconds. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 565 Registered: 11-2003 |
Rhymeswithrawk, the Stanley Cup is the most coveted trophy in all of sports, of course it has it's own caretaker, actually I think three people are assigned to it. Surprised you don't know this working in Hockey Town and all. | ||
Anniedawg25 Member Username: Anniedawg25 Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2008 |
Detroitstar...I cant STAND Leno! He's so cheesy and gives the worst interviews. Half the time he acts like he doesn't give a crap. | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 802 Registered: 05-2006 |
"I hope their appearance on Letterman is better written and longer than Leno" Who said being on Letterman was a given? I think the only reason they were on Leno was because the finals were on the same network. Letterman isn't. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1155 Registered: 01-2006 |
Letterman has hosted Stanley Cup champions in the past, including Steve Yzerman in 2002. Considering history, I would expect to see someone on there soon. If the appearance with Leno had something to do with the finals being on NBC I think it would have been mentioned. But nowhere in the 1 minute of airtime last night did they reference that the games were on NBC. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 737 Registered: 01-2007 |
That's because NBC's coverage sucks little snake's dicks. 2 words... totally awful. CBC rules in hockey coverage. I'm glad I went to bed early. | ||
Conman Member Username: Conman Post Number: 57 Registered: 06-2006 |
My cousin works at 5th ave in Royal Oak and a group of the wings showed up with the cup Saturday night and took over the bar, he said it was crazy. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1594 Registered: 04-2005 |
Leno has had Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan on after Stanley Cup wins in the past. They had sit downs, and I remember Jay asking Shannie about his scars and missing teeth. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 209 Registered: 08-2006 |
Jcole, scars? Leno does that obvious stuff all the time...it's like his ripping on Amtrak when it's neither funny or accurate. I cringed years ago when (L.A. Kings Capt) Rob Blake was on (short-lived TV version of ) The Stephanie Miller Show & she had him pull out his bridgework. He still did it, but it seems kinda one-note to me. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1596 Registered: 04-2005 |
They did the same thing to Draper at the parade on Channel 4 the other day. They were asking him how many of his own teeth he still has. He said all of them, but it remains to be seen if he'll keep the three that got loosened this year. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1597 Registered: 04-2005 |
When I say 'they' I mean our local broadcasters | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 579 Registered: 06-2005 |
The Stanley Cup was at Riverdays. Click the link for my photos. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1350 Registered: 01-2007 |
Is the Cup made of copper? | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 150 Registered: 10-2007 |
Heard Osgood had it at Sean O'Callahan's in Plymouth last week. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 777 Registered: 01-2007 |
http://www.legendsofhockey.net /html/silver_stFFFs.htm Copper? Blasphemy! | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1376 Registered: 01-2007 |
Just wondering what it would be worth to scrappers, Jrvass. They don't post the weight. But lets see now; I figger' it weighs in at about 20 pounds or so. So if it was copper, that would be about 60 clams. For silver "alloy" about 420 bones. Thats a days worth of crack. If it is made of wood (I think it is, cuz it floats) it is only good for camp fire wood. Unless it's Ash. Then all bets are off. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 787 Registered: 01-2007 |
If it floats, it's only because of the trapped air between the base and bottom of the original cup. I think a good job would be to work at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and be one of the 2 "Keeper's of the Cup". You'd get to hang out with the winning team for a few weeks, and then spend the summer traveling with the cup and each player, coach, etc. $420/day for crack? How, exactly, do you know this? Personal experience as a: 1. user 2. dealer or a friend of one of the above? BTW, my brother liked the old Pepsi wooden crate. | ||
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2008 |
quote: I thought we all knew it weighs 35 lbs. | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 1025 Registered: 11-2006 |
....except when you lift it |
