{"id":26592,"date":"2013-10-11T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turin.local:8888\/alaskasportshall.org\/?post_type=inductee&#038;p=320"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:07:04","slug":"scotty-brings-home-the-cup","status":"publish","type":"inductee","link":"https:\/\/alaskasportshall.org\/inductee\/scotty-brings-home-the-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty Brings Home The Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Hockey League players taking custody of the Stanley Cup for one day after their team wins the title is one of the quaintest and coolest traditions in professional sports.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the Cup the most traveled of all trophies, but it broke new ground when Anchorage\u2019s Scott Gomez brought the most identifiable of all team championship symbols to Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL rookie of the year earned the right to transport the trophy north because he was a member of the 1999-2000 champion New Jersey Devils. For a state and community far removed from the mainstream of big-time professional sports, Gomez provided a big-time moment by accompanying the Stanley Cup to Alaska and showing it off for hours in downtown Anchorage in July 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup generated about as much excitement as a single inanimate object could, just by being its historic, glittering self.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez shared his good fortune with his hometown by bringing the Cup to various night-life establishments and toasting it at a party, but more dramatically displaying the Cup for all comers on the Delaney Park Strip. From 1- 7 p.m., the Stanley Cup was on view for anyone who wanted to see it up close, pose for pictures with it or even let their babies sit on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans and the merely curious formed a snaking line at the park strip; an estimated 8,000 people visited the 331\/2- pound trophy during its six hours in the sunshine. The Cup glowed and left Alaska with a long-remembered glow.<\/p>\n<p>It was as if some famous celebrity previously viewed only on television descended on Anchorage. That\u2019s what it was like the day the Stanley Cup came to town.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Lew Freedman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Hockey League players taking custody of the Stanley Cup for one day after their team wins the title is one of the quaintest and coolest traditions in professional sports. 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