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Stanley Cup Champion Blackhawks Get Their Rings

A new hockey season is beginning and last season's Stanley Cup champs, the Chicago Blackhawks recently received their rings. The team hadn't won Lord Stanley's cup since 1961 and they celebrated in style with 14K white gold rings laden with 404 stones, a total of approximately eight carats of diamonds and other gemstones worth around $30,000. The front of the ring features the Blackhawks Indian head logo atop the Stanley Cup and bordered by the words "Stanley Cup Champions" on the face. Each ring is personalized with a team member's name and number. One side has baguette-cut rubies and pear-shaped emeralds set in the shape of the Hawks' crossed tomahawks and the other shows a diamond-studded Stanley Cup and the 2010 season's motto: One Goal along with the championship years: 2010, 1961, 1938 and 1934. The rings were created by Jostens and the inside of each player's ring has the NHL logo and the names of the four teams the Hawks dispatched in the playoffs along with the series scores.

The Puck Daddy blog shows a few other rings form the past few years as well as the far more modest 1961 rings.

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$50,000 Reward Offered For Gamewinning Puck

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Sports

Sports memorabilia related to winning moments often sells for a great deal of money. Gamewinning balls are especially prized and I guess that goes for pucks too. The Harry Caray Restaurant Group, owners of a chain of Illinois steakhouses named after the popular sports announcer, has announced that it will pay $50,000 for the hockey puck that launched off the stick of Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and ended overtime in Game Six of the NHL playoffs, bringing the Stanley Cup to Chicago. The last time the puck was seen publicly was when it was in the Flyers' net.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Harry Caray Restaurant Group President Grant DePorter helped to buy the infamous "Bartman ball," the baseball that Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfered with during the 2003 National League Championship Series. That ball was eventually bought for over $113,000 detonated on live television to help alleviate the Cubs curse (no luck so far). It's assumed that the missing puck will receive a much kinder fate.

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