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25 most insane things people have ever done with the Stanley Cup

By Bruin Belisle

2002 Season: Mark Messier lets the fans touch the cup 1993-94 Stanley Cup Celebration. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images)
2002 Season: Mark Messier lets the fans touch the cup 1993-94 Stanley Cup Celebration. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images) /
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Frank Mahovlich of the Toronto Maple Leafs raises the Stanley Cup over his head in a victory salute in the Toronto dressing room after defeating the Black Hawks, 2-1. It is the first time since 1951 that Toronto won the cup. Toronto won the series, 4 games to 2.
Frank Mahovlich of the Toronto Maple Leafs raises the Stanley Cup over his head in a victory salute in the Toronto dressing room after defeating the Black Hawks, 2-1. It is the first time since 1951 that Toronto won the cup. Toronto won the series, 4 games to 2. /

23. The Toronto Maple Leafs bonfire

The Toronto Maple Leafs celebrated their 1962 Stanley Cup victory in typical Canadian fashion, by having a large bonfire party. Unfortunately for them, the Cup was a part of it.

It’s hard to imagine how a three-foot metal trophy gets burned so much. Or why this is something people choose to do while celebrating with the best trophy on the planet. The giant bowl on top of the cup basically screams “drink booze from me,” yet people were trying to do the opposite of that.

The Leafs were left paying for the damages and the Cup was repaired back to its original state, which was likely just a matter of scrubbing and polishing.

Let’s take a quick second to dive back into why people are burning the Stanley Cup. Sure, both the ’60s and ’40s were crazy times. There were no cell phones to capture this insanity. No Twitter or Instagram to provide receipts. But we still can not comprehend why lighting the Stanley Cup on fire was ever an idea. We need to be smarter than this!

If you ever choose to light up the coolest trophy on earth, we can’t be friends. Mind you, we’d never see this today. The only thing people light on fire now is the $250 jerseys they spend their hard-earned money on.

Unless you are the City of Vancouver, you set your entire city on fire when you lose the Cup. Or you could be this man, who (thankfully) did not see the Philadelphia Flyers make the finals this season:

Okay, so maybe we haven’t gotten any smarter.

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