Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) hoists the Stanley Cup during the Stanley Cup Championship parade. Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports

Stanley Cup headed to Montreal for repairs after being dented in Lightning boat parade

When you've been to as many championship celebrations as the Stanley Cup, you're more than likely going to get some bumps and bruises along the way.

As such, perhaps it isn't too hard to believe that the Tampa Bay Lightning — which just celebrated their second-straight Cup win with a boat parade — dented Lord Stanley's Cup in the process.

With the Cup's long history of being used as a food bowl — among many, many other things — it doesn't seem to come as any great shock that the Bolts bent it. In fact, the damage became something of a laughing matter.

It's also hard not to point out that the Cup being repaired in Montreal after the Habs were just defeated in the Final is nothing short of ironic.

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