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Saturday 7 april 2018

National Hockey League's
Mike Bolt, who is a keeper of
the Stanley Cup when it trav-
els, holds onto the top layer
of the Stanley Cup in Boston,
Monday, April 2, 2018.
Stanley Cup

saying goodbye
to names like

Richard, Hull,
Howe

By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — So long,
Gordon Howe.
Bye-bye, Robert Hull.
Au revoir, M. Richard.
Those Hockey Hall of Fam-
ers and the rest of the play-
ers who won an NHL cham-
pionship from 1954-65 are
being stripped off the Stan-
ley Cup this spring to cre-
ate room for a new layer of
names without making the
trophy too big to be skated
around the ice by the win-
ning captain or checked
on an airplane for its next
journey.
"People in Saskatchewan
are a little upset Gordie's
name is coming off, but
that's the tradition," said
Mike Bolt, one of the Hall
of Fame staffers assigned
to escort the Cup around
the world. "It can't get any
bigger. ... We wouldn't be
able to do what we do."
Perhaps the most iconic
trophy in sports, the Stan-
ley Cup is unique among
major prizes because the
NHL passes it from team to
team instead of producing
a new one for every cham-
pion. Patrick Reed reacts after making a birdie putt on the 13th hole during the second round at the Masters golf tournament Friday, April
6, 2018, in Augusta, Ga.
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