Stanley
The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.
It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and is named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the governor general of Canada, who donated it as an award to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. The entire Stanley family supported the sport, the sons and daughters all playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to the Montreal Hockey Club, and winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), the two main professional ice hockey organizations, reached an agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. The PCHA's successor, the Western Hockey League, dissolved after the 1925–26 season, and no other leagues apart from the NHL were deemed worthy of challenging for the Cup, making it the de facto championship trophy of the NHL. It became the de jure NHL championship trophy in 1947.
Getting around Stanley the local way
- Go nextCarcass Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland New Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland Pebble Island, an island to the north of West Falkland Port Howard, on West Falkland, accessible by air or by road then a ferry Saunders Island, an island to the west of West Falkland Sea Lion Island, the most southerly inhabited island in the Falkland Islands West Point Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland Go further south to South Georgia and then Antarctica, possibly on a cruise ship
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