Kicker - Taking home the trophy

AUDIO: The Avalanche are 2022 Stanley Cup champions!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Yeah, had to delay this one. I’m over it now. Congratulations, Colorado.

Listen, you think the Stanley Cup is a difficult trophy to win, try getting it delivered to the right address!

You see, each player on the Cup-winning team is entitled to a summertime day with the Cup.

And it’s the job of the keeper of the Cup, this is an actual job for an employee of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, the keeper ferries the Cup around from player to player.

Day after the big victory, the keeper was to drive the Cup to the home of the Avalanche Captain, Gabriel Landeskog. But he got the address mixed up. Right neighborhood, wrong house.

He had the home of Dmitri Rudenko—speaking here with Nine News Denver, K-USA television.

RUDENKO: The person open the trunk and I saw the case. I recognized it because we watched the final games. Like jokingly said, ‘Is that the Stanley Cup?’ and he says, ‘Yah!’

Well, he did know know his neighbor and was able to point the keeper to the correct address.

Just goes to show you, like any professional sport, hockey is a game of inches. Missed it by that much!

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