The Stanley Cup goes where it has never gone before

June 26, 2010 by John Stansberry

This week Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed confirmed that the Chicago Blackhawks will be taking the Stanley Cup to tomorrow’s Gay Pride Parade:

Sneed has learned Blackhawks President John McDonough is rerouting the Stanley Cup from the NHL draft in L.A. to the parade Sunday . . . and Blackhawk defenseman Brent Sopel has volunteered to represent the team.

“I am honored to do it,” said Sopel, who will be accompanied by wife, Kelly, and his four kids, Jacob, 12, Lyla, 8, Jayla, 6, and Paul, 20, whom they adopted three years ago after Paul’s parents died within six months of each other.

“The power of the Cup is incomprehensible, and we recognize the importance of doing this,” said McDonough, who has arranged for the Stanley Cup to be flown back from the National Hockey League draft in Los Angeles 15 hours early. “It’s important for the city and important for the franchise.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

Good for the Blackhawks for sharing the Stanley Cup with fans of all races, creeds, colors, persuasions and so on and so forth. However, the team did announce there will be limitations as the following groups or organizations will be ineligible for a Cup visit:

All Chicagoland chapters of NAMBLA
The Chicago Cubs (guess they don’t want to tarnish the trophy with the stench of mediocrity)
Any DePaul sports team (same reason as listed above)
Northern Illinois Bigfoot Society
Chicago chapter of the Aryan Nation

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4 Comments on "The Stanley Cup goes where it has never gone before"

bigv on Sat, 26th Jun 2010 8:50 pm

I think the bigger story here is that there are multiple Chicago area chapters of NAMBLA…and that John knows this as fact. I mean, knowing that there’s a chapter there is certainly one thing, but, what do you have to do exactly to get thrown OUT of a NAMBLA chapter and have to find another??? Strike that. I REALLY don’t want to know.

EPIC over-share chief. Epic.