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Stanley Cup Visits Four Pennsylvania Ice Rinks Monday

January 14, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced that the Stanley Cup is scheduled to visit four public ice rinks on Monday as part of the festivities for the ECHL All-Star Game and All-Star Skills Competition presented by Guardian Wear™.

The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will host the 17th Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Jan. 21, 2009 and the 12th Annual All-Star Skills Competition on Jan. 20, 2009.

Fans will have the opportunity to view the world famous trophy at Hockey Heaven in Colmar, Pa. from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Power Play Hockey Rinks in Exton, Pa. from 2:15-4 p.m., at Ice Cap Rinks in Reading, Pa. from 5:15-7:15 p.m. and at Steel Ice Center in Bethlehem, Pa. from 8:15 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

The Stanley Cup and the Patrick J. Kelly Cup will be on display throughout the All-Star event, marking the ninth time in the last 10 years that the NHL championship trophy and the ECHL championship trophy have been displayed together at the All-Star Game.

The oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America, the Stanley Cup was donated by Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston and son of the Earl of Derby, in 1893. Lord Stanley purchased the trophy for 10 guineas ($50 at that time) for presentation to amateur hockey champions of Canada. Since 1910, when the National Hockey League took possession of the Stanley Cup, the trophy has been the symbol of professional hockey supremacy. It has been competed for only by NHL teams since 1926-27 and has been under the exclusive control of the NHL since 1947.

The ECHL is represented for the eighth consecutive year on the National Hockey League championship team in 2008 by Aaron Downey of the Detroit Red Wings.

Peter Laviolette, who began his coaching career in the ECHL with Wheeling, was the first coach to have his name engraved in 2006 while former Louisiana coach Dave Farrish had his name added in 2007 as an assistant coach with Anaheim. The other former ECHL players whose names are on the Stanley Cup are Francois Beauchemin and George Parros (Anaheim in 2007), Andrew Hutchinson and Chad LaRose (Carolina - 2006), Ruslan Fedotenko, Nolan Pratt and Andre Roy (Tampa Bay - 2004), Corey Schwab (New Jersey - 2003), Manny Legace (Detroit - 2002), David Aebischer and Nolan Pratt (Colorado - 2001), Krzysztof Oliwa (New Jersey - 2000) and Kevin Dean (New Jersey - 1995). Pratt is the only ECHL player to have his name engraved twice on the Stanley Cup.

There have been four coaches and 46 players from the All-Star Game who have advanced to the National Hockey League. Twenty-nine players from the All-Star Game have gone on to play in the NHL since 2002 when the lineups began having players who coaches felt were prospects to move up to a higher level.

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