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Florida Panthers' Stanley Cup damage just the latest mishap in the trophy's storied history
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'If I really wanted to throw the Cup, I would have thrown the Cup. But that was not my intention.'
Ludwig, who admitted in the same article that they were all fairly drunk by this point, couldn't be sure what happened.
Oh, Baby!
The first known and reported instance of an infant being baptized in Lord Stanley's Cup came in 1996 when the Avalanche's Sylvain Lefebvre used it for his daughter's
He was followed in 2008 by the Red Wings' Tomas Holmstrom, whose niece was welcomed into the Christian faith in the bowl from which countless beers and bottles of champagne have been slurped.
The Pittsburgh Penguins' Josh Archibald had his three-week-old baptized in 2017, and the Avalanche's Jack Johnson used it for all three of his kids on his day with the trophy in 2022.
