A little after 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Ryan Haman checked his friend’s wedding schedule. As a groomsman, he was supposed to be with the wedding party at 9:30, sipping beers as he prepared for the event.



Instead, he was at All American Sports Mall, standing on a muggy balcony over an empty roller hockey rink. His friend understood his absence; it’s not every day you get to touch one of the most iconic trophies in sports.



Haman and his mother, Debbie, were two of around 300 on the guest list for Patrick Maroon’s Stanley Cup celebration at All American in South County, where the free-agent winger grew up playing roller hockey. High school teachers, coaches, childhood buddies and family friends — like the Hamans — huddled on the balcony, waiting for the hometown boy to arrive with the Cup.



“See the excitement in all the people that are here?” building owner Greg Gawrys said. “They just want to see it, touch...