Who is the NHLs Stanley Cup named after?
Faster than you can sing “O Canada,” our search on “Stanley Cup” netted a Yahoo! category all about Frederick Arthur Stanley, aka Lord Stanley, the man behind the Cup. Lord Stanley was an Englishman appointed Governor General of Canada in 1888. He and his seven sons were avid sportsmen, and when they moved to Canada, they took up ice hockey. His third son, Arthur, particularly enjoyed hockey, and in 1890, he gathered amateur players together to create the Ontario Hockey Association. The group played an annual hockey competition with other hockey associat
