Who is Stanley of the Stanley Cup??

Question

Seriously?

Answer 1

Originally known as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated by Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892 as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur hockey club, decided by the acceptance of a challenge from another league championship team.

Then in 1915, an agreement between two professional hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), was reached in which their respective champions would face each other for the Stanley Cup. After a series of league mergers and folds, the NHL adopted the trophy as its championship prize in 1926.

The Stanley Cup, a decorative bowl forged in Sheffield, England but purchased from London silversmith G.R. Collis and Company (now Boodles and Dunthorne Jewelers), worth ten guineas ($48.67 USD), was donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley, Governor General of Canada, who had become enamoured with ice hockey. It was originally used as the trophy given out to the top amateur hockey team in Canada, decided by the acceptance of a challenge from another team by the Cup holders and trustees.

Lord Stanley had made several preliminary regulations regarding the Cup:

The Cup was not the property of any given team at any given time.
The Cup trustees have the final say on disputes should there be any on who was the rightful Cup holder.
Challengers for the Cup must have won their league championship. (The Cup would also serve as the league championship trophy for the champion team's league.)
The challenge games (where the Cup could change leagues) were to be decided either in a one-game affair, a two-game total goals affair, or a best of three series, to the benefit of both teams involved. All matches would take place on the home ice of the champions, although specific dates and times would have to be approved by the trustees.
Ticket receipts from the challenge games were to be split equally between both teams.
A league could not challenge for the Cup twice in one season.
The Cup champions had the responsibility to return the Cup in good condition when required by the trustees.
The Cup champions could add a silver ring to the Cup to commemorate their Cup victory.
The Cup was originally presented in 1893 to the Montreal AAA, the champion of the Amateur Hockey Association (AHA), the top hockey league of Canada at the time. Ironically, Lord Stanley himself never saw a game where his trophy was on the line, nor did he ever present the Cup bearing his name to the champions, since he returned to England in 1893.

Answer 2

It's Lord Stanley, a former General Governor of Canada that created this Cup.

Answer 3

Lord Stanley gave the top half of the cup(the bowl) for a hockey championship in Canada. It has grown over time due to many times handed out and names of players and teams being engraved on it.

Answer 4

Lord Stanley was governor-general of Canada in the late 1800's. He donated the original cup, which is the same one used today, to the people of Canada.

See more at http://www.nhl.com/cup/index.html

Answer 5

he used to be govener general of Canada, he gave to the cup so their could be a trophy for the best team in canada. Also Stanley park in Vancouver is named after him

Answer 6

Lord Allan Stanley that is.

Answer 7

LORD STANLEY not not Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy

Answer 8

Stan Marsh - quick, good stick handling, but often on injured reserve due to the foul play of Cartman.

Answer 9

This is his story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley%2C_16th_Earl_of_Derby