When the Florida Panthers won their second straight Stanley Cup back in June, they took it out to party. In the process, they managed to crack the bowl and dent the base of the iconic 131-year-old trophy. They broke the Cup.
It's not the first time Lord Stanley's legacy has been through the wringer. It's been stolen, lost and drop-kicked. Patrick Roy famously threw it into a swimming pool to see if would float. (It did not.) Michael Ryder knocked it off a table at a celebration in front of half of Newfoundland and dented it in 2011. Players have eaten out of it, drunk out of it and let their babies poop in it. Maurice Richard broke his two front teeth on it, and the Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin ate oats out of it. It's been a dog bowl and a baptismal font, been set on fire and guest-starred in more than one TV show.
For all its adventures and misadventures, the Stanley Cup has been many things, but it's never been deliberately disgraced.
Unsurprisingly, the team that has managed that ignoble feat is the one that most recently broke it: the Florida Panthers.
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Today, in the USA's "Hockey State," armed, masked brutes are illegally beating, detaining and even killing American citizens. They've stolen a civilian's car with a baby in the back, and the baby was eventually returned with a bruised face. They've pummeled an unarmed 16-year-old citizen, stole his phone and then sold it for profit. They shoot protesters in the face with pepper balls multiple times a day. Residents of Minneapolis are cowering in their homes depending on neighbours to get food and medicine to them rather than risk attacks from "law enforcement." People who have done nothing wrong or illegal are being disappeared.
All of this horror is being visited on the people of Minnesota because they didn't vote for the antichrist occupying the national seat of power and its governor dared to run against him. The American president is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a cruel, narcissistic demon. He's bombing countries around the world and threatening others. He is very likely a pedophile and definitely a Russian asset working for Vladimir Putin. It's not out of the realm of possibility that he will be responsible for starting World War III in order to satisfy his overlord.
This creature has threatened Canada with annexation and nobody believes he's done with his aggression in a quest to take ownership of this country's minerals and fresh water. He is pure, unfiltered evil.
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Thirteen members of the Florida Panthers are Canadian. Another three played at least a season in this country. Coach Paul Maurice and both of his assistants hail from here as well. They, presumably, have family and friends back home who are watching the American cretin warning them they're on his international hit list.
Yet, there were the Panthers today, in their sycophantic matching red ties, standing proudly behind the warmonger, gifting him a Panthers sweater, replica Stanley Cup rings and (of course!) a golden hockey stick. It was embarrassing when they visited the White House last year. This year it's traitorous.
It's probably not a surprise to learn the Panthers' owner is a dude named Vinnie who's a billionaire and US military veteran.
And right in the middle of this grotesque tableau was the Stanley Cup. If a trophy could hang its head, it probably would have.
Canadiens fans have little love for ex-Bruin Tim Thomas, but even he exercised his principles by not attending the team's White House visit. Braden Holtby didn't go either when the Capitals won. On the other hand nobody with the Panthers seemed to have a single issue with kissing the ass of one of the worst people in history.
Hockey players aren't generally the brightest of lights in the intellectual galaxy. Still, even the dumbest among us can see what's happening in the US and around the world due to American lawlessness. If these players and coaches have paid the slightest bit of attention to what's happening in the real world outside of their narcissistic bubble; if they had any social awareness, principals or conscience, they would not have been there.
Because they were there, they're telling the world their values support racism, sexism, bullying, greed and stupidity.
The Stanley Cup has been pretty much everywhere.
This is the first time it's been to hell.
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