User:Leech44/List of player names on the Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is awarded to the champion of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is engraved with the names of the winning team ant its players as well as coaches, management, and club staff. However, this was not always the case, one of the original conditions was that each team could, at their own expense, add a ring to the Cup to commemorate their victory. Initially, there was only one base ring, which was attached to the bottom of the original bowl by the Montreal AAAs. Clubs engraved their team names, usually in the form "TEAM NAME" "YEAR WON", 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 name of every member of their team. They remained the only team to engrave team member's names until the 1915 when the Vancouver Millionaires engraved their roster on the inner sides of the bowl. No further engraving occurred until 1924, when the Montreal Canadiens added a new band to the Cup. Since then, engraving the team and its players has been an unbroken annual tradition. Prior to 1977 only players who had completed the Stanley Cup playoffs were eligible to have their name inscribed on the Stanley Cup. Currently, a player must have played at least 41 games for the championship team during the regular season (provided the player remains with the team when they win the Cup) or played in at least one game of the Stanley Cup Finals. 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". For example, The Boston Bruins received permission from the NHL to inscribe the name of Marc Savard following their Stanley Cup victory in the 2011 Finals. Savard played only 25 regular season games before he suffering a concussion, which caused him to miss the remainder of the season.

With the Canadiens having won 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 has his name engraved eleven times, more than any other player. He is followed by 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) and Canadiens' Maurice Richard and Jacques Lemaire.

List of player names


Note a: Names are listed as they appear in the National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book

Note b: Until 1914 teams could "challenge" for the Stanley Cup since it was not regulated by a season the year is listed as it appears in the National Hockey League Official Guide and Record Book. After 1914 it was awarded to the to the winner between the NHA champion and the PCHA and after 1926 the Cup was awarded to the NHL Champion.

†: For the 1917-1918 season the NHL granted a "temporary" Toronto franchise to the Arena Company, This temporary franchise did not have an official name, but was informally called "the Blueshirts" by area writers and sometimes called "the Torontos" by fans.