A business trip to glorious and free Toronto, Canada started out as a pleasure but turned into a nightmare on the second day. That's the day I traveled to the Hockey Hall of Fame to see Harry Smith's name on the Cup and was greeted with nothing but disappointment! Harry's name isn't "really" ON the cup, but the historian assured me his name is spiritually "right there". Names weren't engraved on the Cup when Harry and his 1905 Ottawa Silver Seven took the title from the Rat Portage Thistles. But the enthusiasm for Harry is genuine, as he is credited with retrieving the Cup from the canal the morning after captain Harvey Pulford drop kicked it into Rideau Canal while celebrating with his intoxicated teammates. Truly, the Keeper of the Cup! Lord Stanley's original Cup has a permanent home in a vault in the Hall. It is a replica that travels the world to wide acclaim. Another replica is housed at the hall for the hordes of day care rug-rats to manhandle and slobber on while getting their picture taken, (at least while I was there).
So I took a picture of Eddie Shore's name on the Cup instead. "Old-Time Hockey", indeed.
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