Stingley Cup



The Stingley Cup is a trophy given to the best team in the NHL, the top hockey league in the universe.

The most recent winners, in 2006, were the Carolina Hurricanes. After they won, they let Stephen Colbert, a native of South Carolina, hold it.

In 2005, the league didn't exist due to a bunch of whining about salaries by a bunch of liberal crybaby namby pamby types. The Stingley Cup wasn't awarded that year, instead, it was kept in somebody's kitchen cupboard that year and didn't come out.

The New York Rangers won the Stingley Cup every year from 1984 (except 1999), until 2004.

In 1989, the Stingley Cup was won by the San Jose Sharks, who threw that in the face of their rivals from West Side Story, the New York Jets.

Prior to 1984, the Chicago Blackhawks won it a couple of times, and so did the Pittsburgh Penguins. No one is exactly sure, since record keeping in hockey was sketchy during this period.

No team from Canada has won the Stingley Cup since 1967. That year, the Toronto Maple Leafs won. Everyone knows this, because every year those insane Maple Leaf fans recount their tales of glorious 1967, and wail away about how they will never taste glory again.

It is believed that 1967 is the first year that the Stingley Cup was awarded.

If the Saginaw Spirit played in the NHL, they would most assuredly win the Cup every year.