The Stanley Cup travels more than 100,000 miles a year, making it the best-traveled championship trophy in the world. Misadventures:

• In 1905, the Ottawa Silver Seven tried to drop-kick it over the Rideau Canal on the Ottawa River. (They failed.)
• In 1906, it went missing after a photography session. It turned out the photographer’s mother had adopted it as a planter for geraniums.
• In 1924, the Montreal Canadiens left it by the side of the road while changing a tire.
• In 1940, managers burned the mortgage of Madison Square Garden in the cup, which the Rangers won that year. (This occasioned a “curse” that kept the Rangers from the cup for 54 years.)
• In 1980, New York Islander Clark Gillies fed his dog from it.
• In 1991, Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux tried to float it in his swimming pool. It sank. (Colorado Avalanche goalkeeper Patrick Roy later did the same thing.)
• In 1994, Ranger Ed Olczyk filled it with oats to feed Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin.
• In 1996, Avalanche defenseman Sylvain Lefebvre had his daughter baptized in it.

Plus untold numbers have slept with it and urinated in it — one hopes in that order.