Deserving Veterans in Line to Receive Stanley Cup Hand-Off

Filed under: Blackhawks, Flyers, Eastern, Western, NHL Playoffs, Stanley Cup FinalsLast year, there was plenty of emotion wrapped into Pittsburgh's Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 win. After Sidney Crosby became the youngest captain ever to hoist the Cup, he handed it off to veteran Bill Guerin, who hadn't won it since he was with New Jersey in 1995 and played a huge role in Pittsburgh's playoff run. Cup-less veteran Dallas Drake had the honor of taking the Cup from Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom in 2008. In recent years, the honor of taking the Cup from the winning team's captain has generally been reserved for a veteran who had never won the Cup before. The moment most remember from the 2001 Finals was Colorado captain Joe Sakic handing it to 22-year veteran defenseman and first-time champion Ray Bourque. Who gets to play the highly-sought "second fiddle" role this year?