Editing Stanley Cup (section)

==Engraving==
{{see also|Chronology of Stanley Cup engravings}}
[[File:StanleyCupAvs2000-01Engraved.jpg|thumb|right|A close-up view of the engraving for the 2001 champion [[Colorado Avalanche]]]]
Like the [[Grey Cup]], awarded to the winner of the [[Canadian Football League]], the Stanley Cup is engraved with the names of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff. However, this was not always the case: one of Lord Stanley's original conditions was that each team could, at their own expense, add a ring to the Cup to commemorate their victory.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=3}}<ref name="NHL.comStanleyCup"/> Initially, there was only one base ring, which was attached to the bottom of the original bowl by the Montreal Hockey Club. Clubs engraved their team names, usually in the form <small>"TEAM NAME" "YEAR WON"</small>, on that one ring until it was full in 1902. With no more room to engrave their names (and unwilling to pay for a second band), teams left their mark on the bowl itself. The 1907 Montreal Wanderers became the first club to record their name on the bowl's interior surface, and the first champion to record the names of 20 members of their team.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=12}}

In 1908, for reasons unknown, the Wanderers, despite having turned aside four challengers, did not record their names on the Cup. The next year, the Ottawa Senators added a second band onto the Cup. Despite the new room, the 1910 Wanderers and the 1911 Senators did not put their names on the Cup. The 1915 Vancouver Millionaires became the second team to engrave players' names, this time inside the bowl along its sides.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=12}}

The 1918 Millionaires eventually filled the band added by the 1909 Senators.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=12}} The 1915 Ottawa Senators, the 1916 Portland Rosebuds and the 1918 Vancouver Millionaires all engraved their names on the trophy even though they did not officially win it under the new PCHA-NHA system. They had won the title of only the previous champion's league and would have been crowned as Cup champions under the old challenge rules. The winners in 1918 and 1920 to 1923 did not put their winning team name on it.{{sfn|Diamond|Zweig|Duplacey|2003|p=8}}

[[File:Syl Apps.jpg|thumb|[[Syl Apps]], with the "Stovepipe Cup" before it was redesigned, in the 1940s]]
[[File:Stanley Cup Season 2004-05.jpg|thumb|right|The Stanley Cup acknowledges the cancelled 2004–05 season with the words, "2004–05 Season Not Played" due to the lockout.]]
No further engraving occurred until 1924, when the [[Montreal Canadiens|Canadiens]] added a new band to the Cup.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=12}} Since then, engraving the team and its players has been an unbroken annual tradition. Originally, a new band was added each year, causing the trophy to grow in size. The "Stovepipe Cup", as it was nicknamed because of its resemblance to the [[exhaust pipe]] of a stove, became unwieldy, so it was redesigned in 1948 as a two-piece cigar-shaped trophy with a removable bowl and collar. This Cup also properly honoured those teams that did not engrave their names on the Cup. Also included was the 1918–19 no decision between the Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=13}}

Since 1958, the Cup has undergone several minor alterations. The original collar and bowl were too brittle, and were replaced in 1963 and 1969, respectively. The modern one-piece Cup design was introduced in 1958, when the old barrel was replaced with a five-band barrel, each of which could contain 13 winning teams.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=9}} Although the bands were originally designed to fill up during the Cup's centennial year in 1992, the names of the 1965 Montreal Canadiens were engraved over a larger area than allotted and thus there are 12 teams on that band instead of 13.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=14}} When the bands were all filled in 1991, the top band of the large barrel was preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and a new blank band was added to the bottom so the Stanley Cup would not grow further.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=14}}

Another new band was scheduled to be added to the bottom of the cup following the 2004–05 season, but was not added because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the 2005–06 champion [[Carolina Hurricanes]] were crowned and the new bottom ring was finally added (along with the retiring of the band listing the 1940–41 to 1952–53 champions), the cancelled season was acknowledged with the words "2004–05 Season Not Played".<ref name="2004–05Recognized">{{cite web|title=Strike Up The Bands: The Stanley Cup is Stripped of a Ring; Cancelled 2004–05 Season Recognized |url=http://www.hhof.com/html/newsSCbands.shtml |publisher=[[Hockey Hall of Fame]] |access-date=February 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820015012/http://www.hhof.com/html/newsSCbands.shtml |archive-date=August 20, 2007}}</ref>

Following the crowning of the 2017–18 champions, the [[Washington Capitals]], the band listing the 1953–54 to 1964–65 winners was removed in September 2018, with a new band for the 2017–18 to 2029–30 champions added to the bottom of the cup.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2018/04/04/stanley-cup-saying-goodbye-to-names-of-some-of-nhls-legends-to-make-room-for-more-players.html | title=Stanley Cup saying goodbye to names of some of NHL's legends to make room for more players | first=Jimmy | last=Golen | agency=Associated Press | work=Toronto Star | date=April 4, 2018 | access-date=April 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2018/10/01/the-washington-capitals-are-engraved-on-the-stanley-cup-heres-all-the-names-on-it/ |title=A first look at the Washington Capitals' engraving on the Stanley Cup |first=Ian |last=Oland |website=RMNB |date=October 1, 2018 |access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> Since the introduction of the five-band cup, each engraved team is displayed on the trophy between 52 and 65 years (though in practice, this was reduced by one year as a result of the 1953–1965 band only containing 12 teams prior to its removal), depending on the order they are engraved on the relevant band.<ref name="NHL.com-Cup evolving"/>

There have only been four official Stanley Cup engravers. The fourth and current one, Montreal silversmith Louise St. Jacques, has held the position since 1988.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hhof.com/htmlSTCjournal/exSCJ_10.shtml | title=Stanley Cup Journals: 10 | publisher=[[Hockey Hall of Fame]] | date=June 30, 2003| access-date=July 13, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/hockey/la-xpm-2012-sep-23-la-sp-kings-stanley-cup-20120924-story.html|title=The Stanley Cup: A sports trophy like no other|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 23, 2012}}</ref>

Currently, the Cup stands at 89.5 centimetres ({{frac|35|1|4}} inches) tall and weighs {{frac|15|1|2}} kilograms ({{frac|34|1|2}} lb).<ref name="HHOFEngraving"/> By its 125th anniversary in 2017, the Stanley Cup had had 3,177 names engraved on it; of those, 1,331 belong to players.<ref name="bythenumbers">{{Cite web |title=Stanley Cup by the numbers |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/fun-facts-about-125-years-of-stanley-cup-history/c-287614406 |access-date=September 16, 2020 |website=NHL.com |date=March 13, 2020}}</ref>

===Name inscriptions===
Currently, to qualify for automatic engraving, a player:{{ambiguous|reason=Is it ((1. OR 2.) AND 3.) or (1. OR (2. AND 3.))?|date=December 2024}}
# Must have played, or have dressed as the backup goaltender, for at least half of the championship team's regular season games, '''OR''':
# Must have played, or have dressed as the backup goaltender, for at least one game of the [[Stanley Cup Finals]] for the championship team, '''AND''':
# Must be on the roster when the team wins the Stanley Cup.

However, since 1994 teams have been permitted to petition the [[NHL Commissioner]], to be considered on a case-by-case basis, to engrave a player's name on the cup if the player was unavailable to play due to "extenuating circumstances".<ref name="NHL.comFunFacts">{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/cup/fun_facts.html |title=NHL.com— Stanley Cup Fun Facts |website=National Hockey League |access-date=June 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100810010334/http://www.nhl.com/cup/fun_facts.html |archive-date=August 10, 2010}}</ref> For example, the Detroit Red Wings received special permission from the NHL to inscribe the name of [[Vladimir Konstantinov]], whose career ended after a car accident on June 13, 1997, on the Stanley Cup after Detroit defended their title in 1998.

With the Montreal Canadiens having won by far the most Cup championships of any team, the list of the players who have been engraved on the Cup the most often is dominated by Montreal players. [[Henri Richard]] of the Canadiens, with his name engraved eleven times, played on more Stanley Cup champions than any other player. He is followed by [[Jean Béliveau|Jean Beliveau]] and [[Yvan Cournoyer]] of the Canadiens with ten championships, [[Claude Provost]] of the Canadiens with nine, and three players tied with eight: [[Red Kelly]] (four with the Red Wings, four with the Leafs, the most for any player who was not a member of the Canadiens) and Canadiens players [[Jacques Lemaire]], [[Maurice Richard]]. Beliveau's name appears on the Cup more than any other individual, ten times as a player and seven times as management for a total of seventeen times.{{sfn|Conner|2002|pp=113–114}}

Twenty women<!--1. Marguerite Norris (1954, 1955) 2. Sonia Scurfield (1989) 3. Marie Denise DeBartolo York (1991) 4. Marian Ilitch (1997, 1998, 2002, 2008) 5. Denise Ilitch Lites (Detroit 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008) 6. Lisa Ilitch Murray (1997, 1998, 2002, 2008) 7. Carole Ilitch (1997, 1998, 2002, 2008) 8. Marie Carnevale (2000) 9. Callie Smith (2000) 10. Charlotte Grahame (2001) 11. Nancy Beard (2002) 12. Kelly Kirwin (2006) 13. Susan Samueli (2007) 14. Margaret Jacobs (2011) 15. Dale Hamilton-Powers (2011) 16. Nancy Anschutz (2012, 2014) 17. Liz Sylvia Koharski (2020, 2021) 18. Penny Vinik (2021) 19. Katy Headman Boettinger (2023) 20. Teresa Viola (2024)--> have had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup. The first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup is [[Marguerite Norris]], who won the Cup as the president of the Detroit Red Wings in 1954 and 1955. The only Canadian woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup is [[Sonia Scurfield]] who won the Cup as a co-owner of the Calgary Flames in 1989.<ref name="HHOFEngraving"/>

In [[2000–01 NHL season|2001]], [[Charlotte Grahame]], the [[Colorado Avalanche]]'s Senior Director of Hockey Administration, had her name engraved on the trophy. Her son [[John Grahame|John]] later had his name engraved as a member of the [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] in [[2003–04 NHL season|2004]].

===Engraving errors===
There are several misspellings on the Cup. Many of them have never been corrected. Examples include:<ref name="HHOFEngraving"/><ref name="NHL.comFunFacts"/><ref>{{cite web | title = Europe no place for a small-town hockey player in 1938 | url = http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1031780&auth=Jonathon+Jackson | access-date = May 18, 2008 | author = Jonathon Jackson | date = May 16, 2008 | work = Owen Sound Sun-Times | archive-url = https://archive.today/20110809172624/http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1031780&auth=Jonathon+Jackson&archive=true | archive-date = August 9, 2011 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Pat McReavy]]'s name is misspelled "McCeavy" as a member of the 1941 [[Boston Bruins]] on the second cup created during the 1957–58 season. McReavy's name was often misspelled as "McCreavy" on team pictures of the Boston Bruins. When the Replica Cup was created in 1992–93, the misspelling was not corrected.
* [[Dickie Moore (ice hockey)|Dickie Moore]], who won the Cup six times, had his name spelled differently five times (D. Moore, Richard Moore, R. Moore, Dickie Moore, Rich Moore).
* Similarly, [[Jacques Plante]] won the Cup five times in a row, and his name was spelled differently each time.
* [[Glenn Hall]]'s name was misspelled as "Glin" in 1951–52.
* [[Alex Delvecchio]]'s name was misspelled as "Belvecchio" in 1954.
* [[Bob Gainey]] was spelled "Gainy" when he was a player for Montreal in the 1970s.
* [[Ted Kennedy (ice hockey)|Ted Kennedy]] was spelled "Kennedyy" in the 1940s.
* [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] was spelled "Leaes" in [[1962–63 NHL season|1963]].
* [[Boston Bruins]] was spelled "BQSTQN" in [[1971–72 NHL season|1972]].
* [[New York Islanders]] was spelled "Ilanders" in [[1980–81 NHL season|1981]].
* In 1996, Colorado Avalanche winger [[Adam Deadmarsh]] had his surname misspelled as "Deadmarch". It was later corrected, marking the first correction on the Cup. Similar corrections were made in 2002, 2006 and 2010 for the names of [[Detroit Red Wings]] goalie [[Manny Legace]] ("Lagace"), [[Carolina Hurricanes]] forward [[Eric Staal]] ("Staaal") and [[Chicago Blackhawks]] forward [[Kris Versteeg]] ("Vertseeg").<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/blackhawks/2010/09/versteeg_or_vertsteeg_blackhaw.html |title=Versteeg or Vertseeg? Blackhawks have names engraved on Stanley Cup |access-date=September 29, 2010 |last=Jahns |first=Adam L. |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=September 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001204020/http://blogs.suntimes.com/blackhawks/2010/09/versteeg_or_vertsteeg_blackhaw.html |archive-date=October 1, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Justin Williams]], the [[Conn Smythe Trophy]] winner of the [[2013–14 Los Angeles Kings season|2014 Los Angeles Kings]], was spelled "JUSTIN WILLIVIS". (Has since been corrected as of 2022, possibly earlier.)
* [[Patrick Maroon]] had his name spelled differently on the Cup - "Patrick Maroon" as a member of the [[2018-19 St. Louis Blues season|2019 St. Louis Blues]] and "Pat Maroon" as a member of the [[2019-20 Tampa Bay Lightning season|2020 Tampa Bay Lightning]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2025|reason=This claim is not addressed in the provided sources.}}

===Scratched-out names===
[[File:Stanley Cup - Basil Pocklington x'es.JPG|thumb|right|Basil Pocklington, father of Peter, the owner of the Edmonton Oilers, is scratched out in the 1984 engraving (top right corner).]]
The following names were later scratched out with a series of "X"s:
* [[Peter Pocklington]], then-owner of the Edmonton Oilers, put his father's name, Basil, on the Stanley Cup in [[1983–84 NHL season|1984]]. Because Basil had no affiliation with the Oilers or the NHL at all, the league had his name stricken.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanley Cup Shenanigans: XXXXX Marks the Spot |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27998/stanley-cup-shenanigans-xxxxx-marks-spot |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=Mental Floss |date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>
* Brad Aldrich, the Chicago Blackhawks video review coach during their Stanley Cup run in [[2009–10 NHL season|2010]], was stricken from the Stanley Cup at the team's request in 2021, following the conclusion of [[2009–10 Chicago Blackhawks season#Sexual abuse scandal|an investigation]] that revealed he had sexually abused former Blackhawks prospect [[Kyle Beach]], among others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/nhl-sports-hockey-chicago-chicago-blackhawks-acb2cb2d1c56e1caf965e3aa370f97cd|title=Hall of Fame covers Brad Aldrich's name on Stanley Cup|first=Jay|last=Cohen|work=Associated Press|date=November 3, 2021|access-date=November 3, 2021}}</ref>