Over the years, we've heard some crazy Stanley Cup stories.
The Cup went swimming in Mario Lemieux's swimming pool, has had about every piece of food and drink possible on the planet inside its bowl, gone atop mountains, used for a baptism and countless crazy stories you can find all over the internet. Heck, there's even a book on them!
Byrne was friends with Vince Vaughn, a noted Blackhawks fan who was a regular inside the United Centre when the team won their first of three Stanley Cups in five seasons. Byrne had a supporting role in "The Dilemma" and started hanging around with the Blackhawks and became a close friend of Bolland's.
During a Stanley Cup party in the summer of 2010 atop at Bolland's home.
"He lived in a brownstone and there was a little gap between his brownstone and the brownstone next to his. He and [another player], they were just holding the Cup up, screaming at the top of their lungs, looking out at the skyline of Chicago and Dave dropped the Cup and the Cup fell between his building and the building next to his and got wedged in between these two brownstones," Byrne said. "So they had to like pray to god it didn't fall, but I guess [someone] was holding Dave's ankles and Dave was like trying to wedge the Cup out and got it out, thank god."
They nearly avoid disaster on two occasions: one, the Stanley Cup could've smashed into pieces, or got permanently stuck. Two, what if Bolland got injured in trying to retrieve Lord Stanley's Cup.
Bolland scored the game-winning goal to give the Blackhawks their second cup in three seasons before inking a 5-year, $27.5 million contract with the Florida Panthers in 2014 after a brief post-trade deadline stint with the Maple Leafs.
