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The Massachusetts native introduced hockey’s largest prize to his hometown skating rink.
From the second the Vegas Golden Knights gained their first-ever Stanley Cup, every of their gamers have waited to lastly get their fingers on it. Star middle Jack Eichel’s persistence would repay on Friday, when he acquired the cup for his scheduled day with it as per hockey custom. What did he do together with his one and solely date with Lord Stanley?
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He took it to Massachusetts.
The Chelmsford native and Boston College alum introduced the Stanley Cup to Skate 3, a skating rink in Tyngsboro. Eichel began taking part in hockey on the rink when he was simply 4 years previous, and he nonetheless visits there to at the present time.
“It’s the place he grew up skating. He nonetheless skates there,” stated Bob Eichel, Jack’s father, per Barry Scanlon of The Boston Herald. “He performed in loads of hockey video games there.”
Eichel introduced the Stanley Cup to Skate 3 at 10 a.m. on Friday, the place it remained till midday. WEEI’s Bridgette Proulx captured a video of Eichel hoisting the cup contained in the rink.
It was necessary to Eichel for him to convey the Stanley Cup to his hometown rink. And with how profitable the Golden Knights have been since their basis in 2017, we might be seeing the Stanley Cup in Massachusetts once more very quickly.
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