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Stanley Cup Has Traveled to Many Places With Keeper

Aired May 24, 2001 - 10:52   ET

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NANCY NEWMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Not only is it the oldest trophy awarded of the four major North American sports, but it is also the most experienced: Famous are the Stanley Cup excursions. "Stan," as he's called by his close friends, has tagged along in plenty of celebrations in his -- or its -- lifetime. Some of the stories go from ventures to Russia, to being left behind in taxi cabs.

Here now is a day in the life of Sir Stanley Cup and friend.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's do it.

PAUL OKE, KEEPER OF THE STANLEY CUP: All right, let's rock.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that the real thing?

OKE: That's the real thing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, man. What are you doing with it?

OKE: I'm the guy that looks after it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't look like you play hockey.

OKE: I don't. I work for the Hockey Hall of Fame.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow, that's something. It's beautiful.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I wonder how much beer was poured in that. That's beautiful.

OKE: I talk to it. Not that I'm going crazy, or anything, but I say, Hey, Stan, what's going on. People are kind of just shocked at the way I talk -- short-form "Stan" -- figure we'd be on a short-name basis, seeing that we hang out so much together.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over the years a lot of wonderful people -- just recently, Kim Delaney from NYPD Blue, way back when, Liberace -- a lot of people over the years.

OKE: And now the Stanley Cup.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And now the Stanley Cup. OKE: Which one's prettier, Kim Delaney or the Stanley Cup?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kim, forgive me: I'm going to have to go with the Stanley Cup. It's a different kind of pretty.

OKE: Want to give it a little kiss.

I kind of wonder how the Mona Lisa did this. .

I've been to Tokyo with it, to Stockholm, Sweden, with it, New York City, the Bahamas. I got a really cool picture with the Stanley Cup lying in a sun chair, and Stanley's in one chair, and I'm in the other, lying back, the hardest working guy in hockey.

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NEWMAN: If that is not enough to make the Mr. Lombardi Trophy extremely jealous.

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