Cup champions get demolished by insider!

We’re biased and we don’t care, but let’s get real, people… the Stanley Cup is the greatest trophy in all of sports. There’s simply no other trophy like it in professional sports. It’s… it’s just iconic. There’s nothing like it.

Insider Ken Campbell of The Hockey News feels the same and that’s why on Tuesday he went off on champions who have no respect for the trophy…

In an article entitled “HEY GUYS, THE STANLEY CUP IS NOT A TOILET OR A DOG BOWL OR A FEED BAG, SO STOP TREATING IT THAT WAY”, Campbell destroys present and past Cup champions who have used the trophy in a disrespectful manner.

Here is what he had to say about what got him to go off about champions and the Stanley Cup: 

“So how about the players who win it start using a little bit of common sense and treat it with the respect it deserves? Part of the tradition of the Stanley Cup is the abuse it has endured over the years, almost from the time it came into existence, from being kicked into the Rideau Canal to being set on fire to being brought to a gentleman’s establishment. Treating hockey’s ultimate prize like a piece of trash is certainly nothing new.

I bring this up because yesterday Robby Fabbri of the St. Louis Blues had his day with the Cup. He brought it to the rink where he played much of his minor hockey for a three-hour function and later brought it to a hospital. He had a party with his family and enjoyed the day with the guest of honor. But you know what he also did with it? He had his dogs eat spaghetti and meatballs out of it. That’s tame by Stanley Cup standards to be sure, but really? You work that hard to win that beautiful piece of hardware, which signifies the culmination of your dreams, and you let your dog eat spaghetti and meatballs out of it? Or you put your baby in there with no diaper and she poops in it? Or allow your horse to eat out of it? Toss it into a swimming pool? Or you do any host of other unmentionable things to it?

It prompted me to send out the following tweet, one I stand behind 100 percent.”

While Campbell explains that most responses to his tweet were negative, we ask you: do you agree with him or should the kids be able to party with the Cup as they wish? 

They worked pretty damn hard for it after all… 

Let’s hope Campbell didn’t hear about Ryan Getzlaf’s latest interview for Fair Game on Fox Sports 1, in which he admitted to host Kristine Leahythat “a lot of people have had sex on the Cup.”

What would he have to say about that?