You could win the stanley cup one day.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

...in the event of another lockout or strike...

http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/20...31109-sun.html

....or...


TORONTO - Hockey fans have struck a victory against the mighty NHL.

According to a report on CTV.ca on Tuesday, an out-of-court settlement has been reached between two fans and the NHL that would make sure the Stanley Cup will not be locked away in the event of another lockout.

As part of the settlement, the league has agreed that trustees in charge of the Stanley Cup can award it to a non-NHL team in a year in which the league doesn’t operate, the report said.

The deal needs to be finalized, but ordinary fans could be one step closer to hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup above their heads.

“They were doing this to establish a principle,� said lawyer Tim Gilbert of his clients, Gard Shelley and David Burt, who are members of a Toronto pickup hockey league called the “Wednesday Nighters.�

The lawsuit, filed in April in Ontario Superior Court, challenged the NHL’s claim that it controlled the Stanley Cup. Since the NHL was just holding onto the Cup during the work stoppage, the men asked that it be awarded to a top-ranking Canadian amateur team.

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Trustees Ian Morrison, former head of the Hockey Hall of Fame, and former NHL official Brian O’Neill argued that couldn’t be done because the Cup has been under control of the NHL since an agreement was signed in 1947.

The resumption of NHL play this season has rendered the case moot, but Gilbert said the settlement still is a big win for Canadian hockey fans.

As another part of the settlement, the league has agreed to give $100,000 a year to hockey leagues for women and underprivileged children for the next five years. The money will be administered by the Canadian Hockey Foundation.

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Mr. Kennedy

That doesn't mean that if there was a lockout that the Stanley Cup would go to a Canadian team. There are non-NHL teams that play in the United States as well, and they could give the cup to the champion in one of the minor leagues like the AHL.

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IRALB

The AHL is still considered a professional league, and it's champions are awarded the Calder Cup.

Essentially the whole point of this lawsuit, was to attempt to bring back what is brandished across the cup's bowl. It's initial use, as being "Presented to the Amateur Hockey Champions of the Dominion of Canada." The cup was a challenge trophy from it's inception in 1893, until the NHL assumed unofficial control of the trophy in 1927 after the WHL folded.

In doing so the league did not file any legal papers to assume the cup, they merely abducted it. Any challenging clubs that weren't in the NHL we're simply cast aside as pipe dreams (see 1950's Cleveland Barons AHL club)