Lord Stanley makes the trip from Toronto to Chicago in advance of Game 6 between the Blackhawks and Lightning.
If you’ve flown on an airplane at any point in the last 10 years, you know how miserable airport security can be. Well, now the Stanley Cup does as well.
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En route to Chicago for Monday night’s game 6 matchup between the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning, not even Lord Stanley was immune to the TSA.
Stanley Cup handler (aka “Keeper of the Cup”) Philip Pritchard, made the trip with Lord Stanley from Toronto to the United Center. During the trip, the Cup had to pass through the airport’s X-ray machine.
Pritchard posted a photo of the Cup going through the machine on Twitter.
Not to be outdone by its more famous older brother, the Conn Smythe trophy took a trip through the X-ray machine as well.
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Despite winning 2 Cups in the last few years, first in 2010 and again in 2013, the Blackhawks have not won it at home since 1938. Hoisting the Cup in front of their home crowd is not crossing Blackhawks players’ minds, so they say, but up three games to two, Lord Stanley had to make the trip from Toronto just in case.
Of course, we’ve all heard the stories of what the Stanley Cup goes through when it’s being passed around by a winning team, but going through airport security has to be one of the least fun experiences of the Cup’s life.
More importantly, let’s hope Lord Stanley has global entry. Security is bad enough, but customs is worse.
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