WHAT MAKES UP AN OFFICIAL HOCKEY PUCK?
According to the National Hockey League’s official rulebook, an approved hockey puck must be made of vulcanized rubber or other approved material, measure 1 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter, and must weigh between 5½ and 6 ounces. The Hockey Hall of Fame was opened in 1961 to honor hockey greats. Traveling Cup On March 22, 1894, the first Stanley Cup championship game was played. The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (which won the cup unchallenged the previous year) triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals. The Stanley Cup is the only professional sports trophy that each player on the winning team gets to take home. The Cup weighs 36 pounds and stands 35 1/4 inches high. In 1980, New York Islander Clark Gillies fed his dog from it. Gillies’s teammate Bryan Trottier slept with it. In 1991, the cup turned up at the bottom of Mario Lemieux’s swimming pool. The Stanley behind the Stanley Cup was Lord Stanley of Preston. ************** In 1994, members of the New York Rangers took the cup
