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Most undeserving player to get their name on the cup.

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I don't know if this kind of thread has been made already, but I was looking at Jon Sim's 1999 game log and found that this would be enough to get his name on the cup. You have to either play in half the regular season or at least one game in the finals (even if you lose all of them apparently).

Are there any other weird examples like this?

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Jiri Slegr played one game for Detroit in the 2002 playoffs. It happened to be the Final game of the season. He only played because Fischer was suspended for that game. Detroit was already up 3-1 in the series.

He was acquired during the deadline and only played 8 regular season games for Detroit that year.
 
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Brian Muir played 8 games in the regular season and 3 games (5:12 total ice time, none of them in the Final) in the playoffs for Colorado in 2001.
 
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Uwe Krupp, Red Wings 2002. Hadn’t played since 1998-98, with bad blood due to the dog sled debacle. Played 8 regular season games and 2 games in the playoffs.

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By virtue of the rules (IE 41 reg season games, 1 game in finals):

The '07 Ducks had a couple of examples. Both Ryan Carter and Drew Miller made their NHL debuts during those playoffs. Both ended up getting their names on the Cup. Miller dressed for a couple finals games and got decent ice time, but Carter only dressed for one and had less than 3 minutes of ice time.

From teams petitioning to get names on the Cup:

Kevin Hodson in 96/97. Mostly because the Wings didn't want to lose him on waivers, Hodson stayed on the Red Wings roster for most of that season as a 3rd stringer. I think he got a couple of conditioning stints in the minors when he hadn't played for a while, but mostly just didn't play in the NHL. Not sure how many games he actually dressed for, but he ended up with 4 starts and 2 relief appearances for 6 games in the regular season, and unless I missed something, he never dressed for a game in the playoffs that year as Vernon got all of the starts and Osgood dressed as back up.
 
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Uwe Krupp, Red Wings 2002. Hadn’t played since 1998-98, with bad blood due to the dog sled debacle. Played 8 regular season games and 2 games in the playoffs.

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He didn't get his name engraved on the Cup though. Just got to raise it and got a ring. In other years, the Wings petitioned to include guys that spent the whole year in Detroit, but didn't meet the games requirement (Hodson in '97 and Derek Meech in 2008, EDIT: Dmitri Mironov must've been the same case in '98 as he didn't meet the requirements for the RS (41 games with winning team) or playoffs (at least 1 in the finals)), but didn't do so in 2002:

Krupp - was with the team the whole year, but missed most of it injured (actually a huge chunk was missed while waiting to get the green light from the Wings as to whether or not he could get some surgery)

Jesse Wallin - Was on the roster the whole season but missed most of the year hurt (like he always seemed to...)

Maxim Kuznetsov - Missed the regular season cut off by 2 games, but was otherwise with the team the whole season (interestingly, Meech would play 32 RS and 0 playoff games in 2008 and the Wings petitioned to have him added)
 
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Just while we are on the topic, and it isn't a player I am talking about, but how did Peter Pocklington get his father's name engraved on the Cup in 1984? Once the NHL caught wind of it they removed it with XXXX. But how could that have worked? My guess is there wasn't a lot of fact checking back then.
 
I believe Eddie Olczyk played like one shift in the 1994 post season for the Rangers and got his name on the cup after lobbying
 
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Richard Sevigny played backup for one game in the 79 finals and got his name on the cup. Didn’t make a single on ice appearance in the 78-79 season.
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Richard "Guy Lafleur will put Gretzky in his back pocket" Sevigny. Bunny Larocque was supposed to start Game 2 but got a puck in the noggin during warm-ups and Sevigny dressed.

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Just while we are on the topic, and it isn't a player I am talking about, but how did Peter Pocklington get his father's name engraved on the Cup in 1984? Once the NHL caught wind of it they removed it with XXXX. But how could that have worked? My guess is there wasn't a lot of fact checking back then.
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Basil Pocklington. Mike Zanier dressed for the final two games of the finals in place of Grant Fuhr, but didn't get his name engraved, unlike Richard Sevigny.
 
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chrispw1 said:
I believe Eddie Olczyk played like one shift in the 1994 post season for the Rangers and got his name on the cup after lobbying
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This is the answer. Doubly infuriating cause that misbegotten cup has allowed Olczyk to sell himself as an ‘expert’ while spouting the most hackneyed, cliched nonsense night-in, night out on television.
 
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I believe Eddie Olczyk played like one shift in the 1994 post season for the Rangers and got his name on the cup after lobbying
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Somehow, the "lobbying" part doesn't surprise me. I saw Olczyk on some TV panel a year or two ago, and they were talking about the Maple Leafs' club in 1988 or 1989 or something, and he basically said that he disagreed with the club's representative at the All Star game (Iafrate? Leeman?), implying that it should have been him!
 
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Sévigny does not have his name engraved on the Cup...
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Yes he does. As a goalie, all you need to do is dress as a backup one game in the finals.

This wiki entry has the list:

1979 Stanley Cup Finals - Wikipedia

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††Richard Sevigny's name was engraved on the Stanley Cup, before he played his first NHL game. He was dressed in the finals when Michel Larocque was injured in pre-game warm-up for game two. Sevigny joined Montreal full-time, the next season after Ken Dryden retired.
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Here is the entry in the NHL’s official records:

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1978-79 Stanley Cup Winner | NHL Records

Learn more about the Stanley Cup Winner of the 1978-79 season.
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The 1970 Boston Bruins forced the NHL to change their rules:
  • Ted Green received a head injury in a pre-season game. He missed the entire season, but his name was still engraved on the Stanley Cup. John Adams (goal) and Ivan Boldirev (forward) had their names engraved on the Cup before they played their first NHL game. Boldirev played his first NHL game for Boston during 1970–71 season, Adams played his first NHL game for Boston during the 1972–73 season. Dan Schock played in the minors but was called up to play one playoff game, earning a spot on the Stanley Cup. Ron Murphy played only 20 regular-season games and had officially retired in March, but his name was engraved on the Cup.
  • After Boston included 3 players who did not play for the team that season, the NHL only allowed players who dressed in the playoffs to be included on the Stanley Cup.
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1970 Stanley Cup Finals - Wikipedia

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Mike Hartman's name in on the Cup (1993-94) and he played only 35 regular season games, and zero in the playoffs. Bettman waived the rules for him and Ed Olczyk after the Rangers petitioned to have their names engraved.
 
Nick Kypreos has to be up there. 3 GP during the 1993-94 run as an extra forward on the New York Rangers which is fine, but we've been hearing all about it on Toronto sports radio for the past 2 decades...

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Handful from the Devils:

Steve Brule (1999-00): 0 regular season games, 1 playoff game in ECF
Steve Kelly (1999-00): 1 regular season game, 10 playoff games (none in SCF)
Richard Smehlik (2002-03): 12 regular season games (deadline acquistion), 5 playoff games (none in SCF)
 
For the Penguins: Mike Needham

Made his NHL debut in the '92 playoffs, so clearly didn't reach the regular season GP minimum...but also played 0 games in the Finals, so didn't qualify there either. He did play 5 games in those playoffs and scored a goal, meaning he did something that would put him above some others in this thread...but dude was just an injury fill-in that didn't qualify to get his name on the Cup who got his name on the Cup anyway.

Most of the other examples were back-up goalies or people who'd have been part of the team barring injuries/circumstance. The fact that Mathieu Garon won a Cup is one of those facts that's never going to stick in my brain, but he was the back-up for a couple months in 2009. Mike Zigomanis got his name on the Cup months after playing the last of his 22 games as a Penguin, but that was due to a season-ending injury <2 months into the season. He'd have comfortably cleared the GP requirement without that injury.

It's just funny to see who gets petitioned to be included and who doesn't. Beau Bennett did more for the Penguins than quite a few guys the Penguins have petitioned for in the past and would have comfortably passed the GP threshold without being made of porcelain, but the Penguins used all 52 engraving spots by the time eligible players and staff were allocated so no petition was made. Rather humorously if the Penguins left off the team doctor, as they had with previous wins, Bennett likely gets his name petitioned/engraved instead.
 
Michael Del Zotto is an interesting case. His name is on the Cup with the 2018-19 St. Louis Blues despite only appearing in 7 regular season games and 0 postseason games for the team. He did, however, play 23 games with the Canucks and 12 games with the Ducks that season before adding his 7 with the Blues for a total of 42.

Due to confusion about the automatic qualifiers, Blues beat writer Jeremy Rutherford relayed a fan question about Del Zotto's engraving to Phil Pritchard, and despite a lot of sources suggesting a player must play a half-season of games with the winning team to automatically qualify, Pritchard confirmed that it was just a half-season overall.

It feels a little cheap, but good for him. And the way he qualified makes for a funny story nonetheless.
 
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