hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately if he’s given them all partial ownership they’re all entitled to be on there. I greatly dislike that sports teams are privately owned.

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t care that sports teams are privately owned, I do get really annoyed that stadiums are built with public dollars.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And the profits privatized.

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just finished writing a post about this exactly. That is the problem.

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  • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    His youngest child is kindergarten age.

    Minors legally cannot own part of a hockey team.

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Minors can legally own shares of a private company.

      I’m not saying THIS child does… and out of EVERYONE on the list that kid is entirely morally absolved anyways by virtue of being a little kid.

      But, they can own shares.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I kinda agree. But if a city has enough money to afford a sports team, they should invest more into the local tax base.

    But as far as the Stanley cup goes, billionaires aren’t beholden to the Golden rule, so tax the fuck out of them.

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Absolutely tax the billionaires.

      The part I hate is that a host city shouldn’t have any obligations for a privately owned team. The owners get tax breaks and other concessions for building complexes that will be completely private facilities afterwards. Owners and owner groups can easily afford to fund all of this themselves but gain favors by playing on the opportunity for the city to have a sports franchise.

      While area businesses may benefit from the presence of a sports team, the general public ends up financing a good chunk with at best marginal returns.

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  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think they have any relationship with the team. Just the guy’s wife and loin product. There are actual minority co-owners who aren’t on there.

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are we sure he didn’t gift them something like .1% of the team just for this?

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So for someone who doesn’t know: is this trophy passed on the time someone wins? You don’t get to keep it and they make a new one?

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, it’s the same trophy. There are metal bands where they engrave the names every year. The trophy can only hold about 50 years worth of names, though. When it fills up, they replace the oldest metal band and send it to the Hockey Hall of Fame to make room for new names.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah okay. That really puts the “mildly” in this post, I suppose. 😅

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    • nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The first time I read this, my brain automatically parsed “metal bands” as musicians. And now I think Gwar should really implement this system to commemorate all of its various lineups.

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    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it’s the same trophy, they pass it along every year.

      and it’s tradition that each player gets to spend a day with the cup. because of this, the trophy has gone through some wild rides… someone got drunk and dented it… someone got drunk and left it on the side of the road. Someone baptised tjeir child in it (and i believe the child peed in it)

      crazy stories.

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fact that the player names aren’t first on the list pisses me off.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What a douche move.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How much room is there for engraving on that thing?

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  • robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    they keep adding strips to the bottom of the trophy, so the answer to your question is “as much as you need.”

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    • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t they remove the strips and add blank ones? Or was that a different trophy.

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They replace rings when they get full.

    But each winning team typically gets 52 names to put on.

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• wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In 1984, the Oilers owner Peter Pocklington added his father, Basil, to the Cup. It’s covered by a series of Xxxxx.

  How did the league approve this?

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  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And why can’t the league undo it? They could just replace the band.

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• Veritrax@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

  Poor guy lol.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I live in NC and hate the hurricanes. Perhaps it’s just because I’m a disgruntled Blue Jackets fan, but hurricanes are one annoying ass fanbase, with a shitty owner, in a racist ass state that was the birthplace of the kkk and hasn’t changed much since then.

  I knew I hate the hurricanes for good reason.

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not familiar with Lacrosse, is this cup “reused” every year?

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  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hockey, not lacrosse. And yes, it gets reused every year. Each person who won gets 24 hours with the cup to do whatever they want with it, and then it goes to the next person. The bottom part of the cup is made of a bunch of bands or rings, that get engraved with the winners every year. The whole cup can hold up to 50 years of names, and when they need more space they remove the oldest band and put it in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It looks like the owner added all his family to the cup. It’s happened before and the extra names got struck out. It’ll probably happen again this time too.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This can easily buffed out.

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