talkingcanes
08-02-2003, 08:53 AM
How would you like to be responsible for this? Think there was much sweating and wetting of pants before it was found :eek:
Stanley Cup gets lost in transit
Pavel Barta. Special to canada.com
Friday, August 01, 2003
After frantic search, the Cup was found at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
The first-ever visit of the Stanley Cup to Slovakia was delayed when the Austrian Airlines regular flight from Vienna to Kosice landed in the Eastern Slovakian city Thursday afternoon with two NHL guards but no Cup.
New Jersey Devils defenceman Jiri Bicek was expected to show the Stanley Cup in a celebration on the city's main street and the party was supposed to last till Friday noon when defenceman Richard Smehlik would help bring it to Ostrava.
After frantic search, the Cup was found at Toronto's Pearson International Airport: it never left the ground.
While agreeing a situation like this hasn't happened in the last 100 years, one of the NHL guards, Walter Neubrand, said these things still can happen -- "We don't live in a perfect world. After all, it does happen that airline passengers can't find their luggage on arrival."
Still, the delay throws a monkey-wrench in the celebrations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic: even if the Cup makes it on the next flight out of Toronto, parties at Kosice, Ostrava and Znojmo and Trebic, the latter two hosted by forward Patrik Elias, would have to be re-arranged at the last minute or it may happen that at least one of the players will host his party in the Cup's absence.
Following celebrations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the Stanley Cup is supposed to travel to Russia.
Pavel Barta is an editor with the www.hokej.cz site in the Czech Republic.
© Copyright 2003 canada.comHow
Stanley Cup gets lost in transit
Pavel Barta. Special to canada.com
Friday, August 01, 2003
After frantic search, the Cup was found at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
The first-ever visit of the Stanley Cup to Slovakia was delayed when the Austrian Airlines regular flight from Vienna to Kosice landed in the Eastern Slovakian city Thursday afternoon with two NHL guards but no Cup.
New Jersey Devils defenceman Jiri Bicek was expected to show the Stanley Cup in a celebration on the city's main street and the party was supposed to last till Friday noon when defenceman Richard Smehlik would help bring it to Ostrava.
After frantic search, the Cup was found at Toronto's Pearson International Airport: it never left the ground.
While agreeing a situation like this hasn't happened in the last 100 years, one of the NHL guards, Walter Neubrand, said these things still can happen -- "We don't live in a perfect world. After all, it does happen that airline passengers can't find their luggage on arrival."
Still, the delay throws a monkey-wrench in the celebrations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic: even if the Cup makes it on the next flight out of Toronto, parties at Kosice, Ostrava and Znojmo and Trebic, the latter two hosted by forward Patrik Elias, would have to be re-arranged at the last minute or it may happen that at least one of the players will host his party in the Cup's absence.
Following celebrations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the Stanley Cup is supposed to travel to Russia.
Pavel Barta is an editor with the www.hokej.cz site in the Czech Republic.
© Copyright 2003 canada.comHow