Stanley Cup Becomes Baptismal Font

by armchairsports | July 25, 2008 at 02:37 pm | 102 views | add comment

The Stanley Cup - Wings Home Opener 10.17.02

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This is why the best trophies are cups - the sheer flexibility: beer-soaked bars to babtism - quite a range of uses.You could never do this with the Vince Lombardy Trophy. It's another case of the interesting case of the secret life of objects (or in this case, public). I can only assume that this will add to the aura of the cup.

PITEA, Sweden - Tomas Holmstrom had his day with the Stanley Cup on Friday, and he let his cousin use it as a baptismal font for a christening.

Holmstrom suggested the idea to his cousin, Robert Sundstrom, who baptized his seven-week-old daughter Alva Felicia during a private ceremony outside Holmstrom's hometown of Pitea in northern Sweden.

"Tomas came up with the idea when we were sitting in his summer cabin kitchen a week ago," Sundstrom said. "Me and my wife thought it would be fun to christen our daughter in such a priceless object."

The only outsiders at the ceremony were the two American security guards who travel with the massive silver trophy in Sweden.

Holmstrom won the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings, and each member of the team gets to spend a day with the trophy.