What The Stanley Cup Means To The Sports World

Mario, as the keeper of the cup, you're wearing the gloves. How do you get it here? Is it like a whole thing? Arm guards, like F-18s, what happens?

Regular Air Canada takes us from Toronto right to LA. We have a box right behind you there and it's 90 lbs with the case. Uh, the protocol is if you haven't won it, you shouldn't touch it, but a lot of people do.

Step closer to the cup. You're a few steps away from it. When you look at it down there, what comes to mind, uh past and present?

Unless you win it, uh, I don't, I don't think you should post, just touch it, you know. So, we keep it like that. I mean, anytime the Stanley Cup's here, it's a, it's a big event. I tell Mess all the time. I said Mess, I know you get the six cup, but dude, I remember you from the Lays commercial. The sport is pure joy. It's a lot of fun to play. Three, four years old. And those damn Lays commercials, I, I remember seeing them vividly, so to think about today going on the ice with them and being able to skate with them and play with them is pretty cool. Just a lot of good memories, obviously been, uh um, been fortunate enough to to win it in this building a couple times. So, uh that's obviously good memories but uh hopefully not quite done yet.

Until maybe you win it. Until then.

Hopefully. Can't lift it off the table. Again, if you have to, if when you win it, you can do so. Uh but we just want everybody to have fun with it. Enjoy the day with it.

Now, the players today are not playing for this cup though. Are they playing for like a replica? Do they get like a mini version of it or not a chance?

Not a chance at all. Not a chance at all. We're always here for um our first responders. And we thought it's been a great opportunity to do so.

Craziest stories you've heard with the cup.

This is a good story and I'm not allowed to tell a lot about it. Well, I've had a chance to have it in my backyard twice. Devonte is a good friend of mine and I got to drink out of this guy at his cup party. We've had caviar in the bowl. I had pictures of me in bed with the Stanley Cup. I definitely blacked out. Putin from Montreal. Incredible night um and day. I mean, it progressed. The cereal and ice cream. What was in the cup? Everything. So families can enjoy themselves and have a day of it. If you're ever going to drink too much, it's with this guy.

What was he doing with the cup in his bed?

In a hotel. They were in a hotel together. He wound up getting the cup in his bed. I was clothed. I mean, my boxers.

All right, well, I guess it's clean now, isn't it? I hope.