It is often said that the Stanley Cup is the most famous trophy in North American professional sports. While some may debate that opinion, there is no question that it holds a certain mystique. No matter where it may be or who is in the room with it, the Cup is the center of attention.

For hockey fans, it’s almost magical. It is a piece of history and a symbol of all that makes hockey great to those that love the sport. The battle to win it is among the fiercest and most grueling, which grants the trophy a certain amount of reverance not often seen in the sporting world.

If you don’t believe the trophy has some special powers, the video below may help change your mind.

In part of its promotion for “Day with the Cup,” a joint initiative from the NHL and Discover, the Stanley Cup was brought to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, deep within Canada’s hockey heartland. Two very special fans were about to get the surprise of their lives.

The local Western Hockey League team, the Saskatoon Blades, is the center of the hockey community. Among the many passionate Blades fans are Gerry Nelson and his son Wyatt.

Gerry went blind in 1988 due to complications from diabetes. He still attends many Blades games and used to have the game described to him by the radio broadcast while he sat in the arena. However, one year, Gerry and Wyatt went to a preseason game that had no radio broadcast. The responsibility fell to Wyatt to describe to his dad what was happening.

He did such a good job that Gerry began to prefer to listen to his 12-year-old boy’s passionate and descriptive play-by-play. That’s how they watch the games now, which has only strengthened their already close bond.

So they were selected among hockey’s most passionate fans to be rewarded for their “Hockey Life” as part of the Day with the Cup program. However, they apparently were not told what all that would entail.

One night, the father-son duo was at the Blades game when they were taken down a back hallway and into an empty room. An almost empty room. Standing by itself in the middle of the floor, propped up on a table with its customary NHL tablecloth sat hockey’s ultimate prize.

“Is this a gag?” Wyatt wondered aloud. Gerry asked him what was the matter.

“There’s the Cup,” Wyatt informed his dad.

“The Stanley Cup?” Jerry asked in disbelief.

Wyatt then led his father to the trophy. Gerry put his hands on the table and then to the silver. In that instant, you can see the emotion of that moment hit Gerry all at once.

Gerry could feel the names inscribed on the famous trophy, the ridges that separate each ring added when they’ve run out of room to inscribe more names. Finally, he stopped at the bowl, and held on tight.

“This is just overwhelming,” Gerry said before embracing his son.

In a story profiling the Nelsons by Global News back in December, Gerry spoke glowingly of the help he receives from his son.

“Wyatt from a very early age began to help me when I needed it, without even being asked,” Gerry told Global News. “Sometimes when he is doing something with me I feel like I am taking him away from his time with his friends, but he says ‘No, Dad, I love doing it and I want to do it.’

“He is the greatest son a father could ever have.”

It’s hard to imagine two fans more deserving of their own moment with the Stanley Cup.