Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide — page 9
teams have put the names of each player coach owner and team executive on the Cup It’s one of the traditions that makes the Cup unique Canadiens legend Henri Richard has had his name on the Cup more times than any other player having been etched in silver 11 times With more than 100 winning teams it’s no surprise that the trophy ran out of room for all of the names Multiple times The Hockey Hall of Fame had a solution Over the years the Hall started taking bands off the trophy and archiving them to make room for more names The battle for the NHL’s championship is a grueling two-month marathon called the Stanley Cup Playoffs There are four rounds and it takes 16 wins to raise the trophy Teams can plan on playing as many as 28 games in the playoffs That’s more than one-third as many games as are in the entire regular season The championship series is called the Stanley Cup Final It has played host to some