The Chronicles of Stanley: Party fouls and angering hockey gods

The Chronicles of Stanley is an occasional series this summer that tracks the Pittsburgh Penguins as they each get their special alone time with the Stanley Cup. For more about the travels of the Chalice, visit the Hockey Hall of Fame's Stanley Cup journal.The annual summer tradition of the Stanley Cup making it way around the globe is well underway. It's been about a month and a half since the Pittsburgh Penguins added a third Cup to their trophy case and began stuffing the NHL's pockets with post-championship merchandise sales. I was in the NHL Store (Powered by Reebok, of course!) earlier this week and as soon as I walked in there was Penguins Cup goodies bombarding me. As a Pens fan, it was glorious. A championship will boost a franchise's profile tenfold and in the Penguins case, a hundred. The city of Pittsburgh took to it's Stanley Cup champions just as much, if not more, than they did when the Steelers won their second Super Bowl this decade last February...