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Up next, more Women's hockey, this time at the new E Center in West Valley City, a SLC suburb located in the flat remnants from when the lake was much larger.

While walking to the rink, we saw a fairly low-key sign in front of a hotel across from the rink saying "NHL Trophy Exhibit."  There were also a bunch of NHL and various Hockey Federation-marked vans around.  We wandered in and were greeted with EVERY SINGLE TROPHY in the NHL collection in a gallery with almost no one in it. 

_{Stanley, Dave and Guy}

I ran around like a lunatic touching the trophies, looking at the names, gazing at the splendor and smiling at our luck.   Dan had seen the glorious mug before so was a bit nonplussed (as is his style) but i made him take my pic with Lord Stanley.  I pointed at Guy Lafleur in 1977 and you couldn't smack the smile off my face.

I also ran my finger over the Vancouver Millionaires and the Seattle Metropolitans insciption and noticed the missing year 1918 when the Spanish Flu epidemic wiped out the cup tourney and sent Montrealers home sick and dying, and saw the corrected Adam Deadmarsh entry.  I also spent some time observing some favorites, the Selke (best defensive forward) and the Clarence Campbell (which the Canucks have won twice).  I wanted to stay longer to just "sit" but game was waiting.


_{Vancouver Millionaires won in 1915 over the Ottawa Senators}

(Note: This is part three of the SLC Winter Olympics Flashback series from Dave Thorvald and Dan Funboy)

Just when I thought we'd arrived a week too early, the crowds poured in from around the world, everywhere folks seemed to be hustling elsewhere - I noticed various recognizable media folks and tried to guess where people were from. Safe to say, a predominantly northern/eastern European (read=white) crowd but, cool hearing all sorts of languages as we cruised around downtown Salt Lake.