The Stanley Cup-winning teams get a day to enjoy the trophy. It’s a common way for guys to consume an excessive amount of alcohol. But Jack Johnson, a Colorado Avalanche defenseman used it for something much more.
Earlier this week, Johnson used the trophy to assist in the baptism of his three children, with the minister performing the ceremony cupping water from the bowl of the trophy and sprinkling it on the heads of each child.
A tidbit from Jack Johnson’s time with the #StanleyCup: His three kids’ baptism was planned before the playoffs, and it turned out the date was Johnson’s day with the Cup. The Cup was used to baptize the children.
Photos courtesy of Jack’s wife, Kelly Johnson: pic.twitter.com/n2Bb3PE9N9
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Johnson had originally planned Johnson’s ceremony date before the playoffs started. However, Johnson got the blessing of being able to share the Cup with family and friends on that very day.
Johnson gets credit for his creativity, but not originality. The same thing has happened to three other champions in the past: Sylvian Lafebvre won in 1996 with Colorado Avalanche, Thomas Holmstrom allowed his cousin to use it 2008 with Red Wings and Josh Archibald 2017 with Penguins.
But that wasn’t the only purpose Johnson had in mind for Lord Stanley’s grand prize. They fulfilled a promise made to their children and went to an ice cream place to enjoy frozen cream from the trophy.
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“It was cool,” Johnson said during his visit to Dell’s Ice Cream and Coffee in Powell, Ohio. “I promised my kids, gosh, I don’t know long ago, that if I ever won, we’d eat ice cream out of the Stanley Cup. This is what I did. [of the Cup] if it was OK to eat ice cream out of it and they said, ‘Yeah, have at it,’ so I was able to keep my promise to the kids.”
Even if the last gesture weren’t okay, I think a guy that has played for five different teams over a 16-year career would deserve a little special treatment.
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