Should the NHL consider taking a ring off the Cup and adding a ring with all HHOFers
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tarheelhockey
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I like the spirit of the idea, but it would feel like a band aid to a problem that just can’t be solved gracefully.
BLNY
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Just put the old rings on a second cup they slowly build up till its a certain size and then another and another keep at hhof
But my answer is no if you do it as is it will still be the guys that are winning its legends on it.
Nope. And I'd bet the players who didn't win the cup would feel uncomfortable at the idea too.
Most hockey players have too much integrity to want the spotlight despite not having earned it.
Most hockey players have too much integrity to want the spotlight despite not having earned it.
Oleksiak
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No awarding individual accomplishments on a team trophy.
why would anyone think this is a good idea? You take a trophy that is awarded to the championship team and put names of some players who never won it on same trophy. Sounds logical
Yeah, probably so.
If they did that from the beginning none of us would blink an eye and probably think that was pretty cool.
But, they didn’t and maybe it is a bad idea now.
Maurice of Orange
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Retired bands, along with the original Stanley Cup bowl, are proudly displayed in Lord Stanley's Vault in the Esso Great Hall.
Don't they have the Hall of Fame for that exact purpose?
Having the ultimate team trophy turned into a platform for individuals won't work.
Yes, but you can't lift the entire Hall over your head.
Just rename it each year after a famous player like they do with the video game covers.
I don’t think it would be a platform for individuals. Heck, teams have petitioned the NHL to get names of people engraved on the Cup that didn’t play one game. Detroit did it with Konstantinov.
Massage therapists have their names on the Cup.
I do get that people aren’t down with my idea however let’s not fool ourselves that some guy that rubbed a players thighs is so greatly deserving of that honor.
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McVespa99
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This works for me. No to the op idea
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Mike C
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When did a massage therapist get their name on the Cup?
This whataboutism doesn’t make your bad idea any less bad but I don’t think that actually happened.
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FerrisRox
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What makes the Stanley Cup so special is you have to earn your way on to it, and the only way to do that is by winning the championship.
Marcel Dionne was a marvellous player and a well-deserved Hockey Hall of Fame. But he didn't win the Stanley Cup so there's no way his name should be on there. You have to earn it, and you earn it by winning it.
BigBadBruins7708
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No, your name doesn't belong on it unless you win it
The Hall of Fame and the Stanley Cup are two vastly different things and both are earned in entirely different ways.
You could be the greatest player ever and if you never earned/won it, your name does NOT belong on it. Fight me.
What they could consider doing is to have it also serve a purpose of a challenge cup like how the tradition started and have anyone inducted into the HHOF has a chance to win it in a HHOF best of series and totally junk or pair down the yearly All-Star Game in place of it. Rules, details and such can be figured out by folks far smarter than I on that one. Then you can have a special ring just for that.
You could be the greatest player ever and if you never earned/won it, your name does NOT belong on it. Fight me.
What they could consider doing is to have it also serve a purpose of a challenge cup like how the tradition started and have anyone inducted into the HHOF has a chance to win it in a HHOF best of series and totally junk or pair down the yearly All-Star Game in place of it. Rules, details and such can be figured out by folks far smarter than I on that one. Then you can have a special ring just for that.
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