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GolfNow Toronto: Hockey Hall of Fame (6:52)
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Join host Lauren Thompson as she travels to Toronto and visits the Hockey Hall of Fame in this web-exclusive extended cut from GolfNow Toronto.
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-This is like Hockey fan heaven. -It is. Yeah. They're
whole Hall of Famers that have in for hockey fans,
and even if you're not a true avid fan, and
you just come here and look at over, cold artifacts
and memorabilia. It's amazing. -So, what else do you have
here? -Well, we say we have the world's largest and
greatest collection of Hockey artifacts and memorabilia. We have the
first putt from Stanley Cup 1893. We have the first
sticks. We have the sticks from way back then events
occurring, and everything in between. It really is a Hockey
[unk]. -You've appeared in Toronto. Some place to be, Augusta.
Why? -We have to stop by and get your picture
with us down like part of it. -Is that coming
up? Really? -It's coming up. I got my camera. We're
good to go. -Hey, Lauren. So, here we have the
essential part of the Hockey game, the goalie and the
goalie mask. The Hockey mask is worn in the 30s
and 40s, but that Jack [unk] is first NHL goalie
to wear it consistently after a game in 1959, and
[unk] hit a slap shot on him that tore open
his face. He went and got it stitched up and
he came back wearing in a Hockey mask. -Smart guy.
-Smart guy, yeah. And as you can see, the mask
has the evolved into quite an important part of the
goalie's equipment. They [unk] it and get it hand painted.
Yeah. He's got, it's through their design and it's something,
that is. Yeah. Very unique. -This is Terry Sawchuk's original
shoulder pads. He wore this in his entire career. If
you look at today's equipment, this is nothing compared to
what they wear now. He fixed it himself and I
just looked at this and wonder why he even put
it on. I can't imagine it. It's tough. -Yeah. He's
a little vulnerable on the eyes with that. -And over
here Lauren is the tools in which the Stanley Cup
is engraved, and they do it hand-graved every single letter
which is part of the reason why there's mistakes on
this Stanley Cup which is amazing. Just so that it
adds to the lure of the cup. -So, Lauren, this
is one of our new exhibits. It's called the Golden
Golf Exhibit and this really highlights some of the artifacts
that we would see from the 2010th Olympic Games. It's
a gold medal game. It was against the States and
Canada, and it was spectacular game. One of the best
Hockey games I've ever seen. Canada won and it was
just, that much more special because it was on Canadian
soil. But how we got the artifacts is really interesting
story because Sidney Crosby's gloves and his pants went missing
after the game. If you watched the final goal, he
throws his clubs up and nowhere to be seen. Someone
did pick them up, but they went in to Patrice
Bergeron's bag who was his stall partner. The putt was
put in that time, Brian Sullivan's pocket and taking it
to Finland. He forgot about it, and the stick was
on his way to Russia, but our curators stopped it
and the putt came back to us and the stick
and the gloves, and that's the goal which he scored
the winning goal. But when we launched this exhibit, we
had the putt about 2 weeks out to the Olympics
and we put it in the exhibit in front of
our guest that day, that we got it in like
12:00 in the afternoon and it was amazing. They started
to sing, "Oh, Canada," and they just said it was
like reliving that moment again. It was something really special
for Canadians to win the gold medal on Canadian soil.
Yes. A lot of artifacts in the Hall of Fame
is to relive that moment and it's for Canadians or
if you-for hockey fans, you know, the last gold medal.
-Absolutely. -So, this is the vault and we thought it
was a perfect area to put the original ball. This
is the original ball that Lord Stanley of Preston Governor
General donated back in 1893. Hockey had taken off so
quickly back then that he thought; actually it was his
daughter that suggested it. She was playing hockey and she
said it would be neat to have something to play
for. So, it was called the Challenge Cup back then.
-Okay. -And he used to put the names of the
winning teams on the Cup. But if you look into
the grooves and into the rim, you can see the
players started to sketch and scratch the engravings. -Yeah. -And
when they use in, -Oh, my God. -which makes this
the Stanley Cup that much more special I think that
they knew back then that they've wanted their names a
part of it. And that's really how the tradition started,
putting their names on the cup and I think it's
one of the only sports trophies in the world that
has each name of the winning team on the cup.
It's a history book, really. -Incredible. Wow. -Yeah. Amazing. -Certainly
growing in size over the years. That's for sure. -It
has. And if we look over here, you can see
the evolution of the cup. It was the ball, the
challenge ball and then, the base and then, it went
to a cigar shape, and we call it cigar shape
'cause it's sort of mismatched and they miss into the
cup structure, there was nobody. There was also a different
[unk]. All of these have been taken off and retired
here at the Hall of Fame. -Oh, wow. -And this
is the cup as we know it today. So, when
it's full and it's been full once, all right, we
take the top ring off and we retire it here
in the hall, in a vault. And this is the
ring that we're taking off and move the rings up
and then put a blanket on the bottom. So, it's
always the same height, the same size when those players
lift over. So, the Cup that Wayne Gretzky, that Bobby
Orr, that Rocket Richard lifted over their head is the
same that Sidney Crosby lifts over his head. -They're a
real deal. -Here it is. The first time you've seen,
it's amazing. I've seen grown men walk up here with
tears in their eyes. -No kidding. -That's quite something. Yeah.
So, here it is. -Oh, my God. -It's been the
like that. -Can I touch it? -You can touch it.
-Wow. -Yeah. You can get your picture taken with it.
You can touch it. You can kiss it. You can
tag it. The only thing you can't do is lift
it over your head or turn it from it, unless
your name is on it. Those things are reserved for
the champions, but while you're here at the Hockey Hall
of Fame, definitely, you can touch it. But there is
a superstition. We do have current hockey players that come
here. They're hockey fans too. They wanna see the Hockey
Hall of Fame, and they come up and I have
to tell them, "Look at. If you're going in to
a room where the Stanley Cup is," and a lot
of them will say, "I don't need to see it.
Thanks." It's a superstition not to touch it unless you've
won it. -Okay. -So, some come in and some sort
of circle around or won't come in. The superstition is
if you touch it before you win it, you won't
win it. So- -Okay. Well, I know I'm not winning
a Stanley Cup anytime soon, so I'm gonna get up
close and personal with this guy right here. This is
insane. Wow. Does it get better than this? -No. -I'm
in Toronto. The trip is complete.
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