In which the Stanley Cup visits 1 World Trade Center and is inspected for typos, which it is lousy with: THE ILANDERS. THE MAPLE LEAES. THE BQSTQN BRUINS.
Security is tight at 1 World Trade Center. “It’s a lot easier to get into the White House than it is to get in here!” Mike Bolt said the other day. Bolt, in a blazer and black pants, hair styled in a boyish coiffure, was escorting an A-list celebrity through the tower’s subterranean corridors. The entourage included a colleague of Bolt’s and the celebrity’s two hosts, who worked for a magazine upstairs. They were stopped by a pair of security guards.
“This,” one host said, pausing for effect and gesturing toward a trunk on wheels, “is the Stanley Cup.”X-rays, metal detector, K-9 sniff-up: the trunk, plastered with airline stickers, got through with aplomb. Bolt’s blazer bore a patch from the Hockey Hall of Fame—Le Temple de la Renommée du Hockey—in Toronto, on whose behalf he serves as one of the Stanley Cup’s four minders.
The Cup is usually on the road three hundred days a year. Each player on the winning team gets it for a day. It travels with a skirt and prefers to rest on a round table, three feet in diameter. “I can dress that table up and make it look real nice,” Bolt said. He opened the trunk, pulled on a pair of white gloves, lifted the Cup out of its casket of blue velvet, and set it on the table. It did look real nice. Shiny and tall—even, to use this word just once,. “Can we touch it?” someone asked.
“You can hug it, you can kiss it, but if you feel the need to lift it, go win it,” Bolt said. Every victorious player gets his name engraved on the Cup.“Vladimir Tarasenko.”“He lives near Mongolia, on the other side of Russia,” Bolt said. “It’s deep.” The Cup, and Bolt, had travelled to Tarasenko’s home town, Novosibirsk, in 2019, after his team, the St. Louis Blues, won the championship. “Took twenty-two hours to get back from there.
The Cup had taken Bolt to Japan, to the pit at Ground Zero after 9/11, and to Afghanistan. In Kandahar, it had come under a missile attack, during which Bolt, oblivious, sat on the trunk reading. He was later lauded for sticking by the Cup to protect it. “I’d missed the safety briefing,” he said.“I’m a hockey moron, but I didn’t expect it to look like a tiffin.”This being a magazine office, talk turned to typos. The Cup is lousy with them.
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