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The original bowl was made of silver and is {{convert|18.5|cm|in|frac=16}} high and {{convert|29|cm|in|frac=16}} in diameter. The current Stanley Cup is topped with a copy of the original bowl, made of a silver and nickel alloy. It has a height of {{convert|35+1/4|in|cm|1|order=flip}} and weighs {{convert|34+1/2|lb|kg|order=flip}}.<ref name="HHOFEngraving">{{cite web | url=http://www.hhof.com/htmlsilverware/silver_stFFFs.shtml | title=Stanley Cup Engraving Facts, Firsts, and Faux Pas | publisher=[[Hockey Hall of Fame]] | access-date=May 25, 2008}}</ref> Like the [[Grey Cup]], and unlike the trophies awarded by the other major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made every year. The winners originally kept it until a new champion was crowned, but winning teams currently get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. Every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands, which is unusual among trophies. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, so some names must be omitted. Between 1924 and 1940, a new band was added almost every year that the trophy was awarded, earning the nickname "Stovepipe Cup" due to the unnatural height of all the bands. In 1947, the cup size was reduced, but not all the large rings were the same size. In 1958, the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a five-band barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. Every 13 years when the bottom band of the Stanley Cup is filled with names of champions, the top band is removed and retired to be displayed in the vault of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. The four bands below it are slid up one place and a new blank band added to the bottom. The first winning team engraved on the newest band is thus, in theory ''(see [[#Engraving|Engraving]] section below)'', displayed on the trophy for the next 65 years.<ref name="NHL.com-Cup evolving">{{cite web|url=https://www.nhl.com/news/stanley-cup-set-to-undergo-change-with-removal-of-ring/c-300116100 |title=NHL.com—Stanley Cup evolving again with removal of 12 champions |website=National Hockey League |access-date=February 23, 2021}}</ref> It has been referred to as '''The Cup''', '''Lord Stanley's Cup''', '''The Holy Grail''', or facetiously as '''Lord Stanley's Mug'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/29/c8159.html|title=The Stanley Cup coming soon to a living room near you?|publisher=CNW Group|year=2007|access-date=April 8, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070507024711/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/29/c8159.html|archive-date=May 7, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The Stanley Cup is surrounded by [[Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup|numerous legends and traditions]], the oldest of which is the winning team drinking champagne from it.
Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 106 times by 21 current NHL teams and five teams no longer in existence. It was not awarded in [[1919 Stanley Cup Finals|1919]] because of the [[1918 flu pandemic|Spanish flu epidemic]] and in 2005 because of the [[2004–05 NHL lockout]]. It was held by nine different teams between 1893 and 1914. The [[Montreal Canadiens]] have won it a record 24<ref group="nb" name="MTL24"/> times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win it, doing so in [[1993 Stanley Cup Finals|1993]]; the [[Detroit Red Wings]] have won it 11 times, the most of any United States-based NHL team, most recently in [[2008 Stanley Cup Finals|2008]]. The current holders of the cup are the [[Florida Panthers]] after their victory in [[2024 Stanley Cup Finals|2024]]. More than
==History==
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