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Traveling all around the world, celebrating hockey excellence, Lord Stanley's legacy looms large as sport's greatest trophy. Kids and adults dream of earning the right to hoist the Stanley Cup high into the air. When you're a Stanley Cup champion, the trophy's 16.5 kilograms(35 pounds) is as effortless to lift as the down of a feather. Earning that right is one of the greatest challenges known to sports.?"The Stanley Cup represents what hockey players work for all their lives," stated Mark Messier, a six time Stanley Cup champion. "And while the greatest hockey players in the world dream of raising the Cup over their head, there is also real magic when true hockey fans get to experience the Cup."??In Travels with Stanley, the Keepers of the Cup chronicle some of their extraordinary adventures encountered with hockey's greatest trophy, the Stanley Cup, using never seen before photography along with stories that inform as well as entertain.