When the Stanley Cup is won nowadays, it makes the rounds with players from the winning team over the course of the summer – a global march that takes the enduring symbol of hockey supremacy to the far corners of the earth. This year, the Stanley Cup began its world tour in St. Louis at the end of June, before adjourning to tiny Calahoo, AB., home of Blues’ coach Craig Berube for a Canada Day celebration.



From there, it made its way east – to Saskatchewan, Manitoba and then into Ontario this past weekend. By the time training camps open for the 2019-20 season, the Stanley Cup will have visited eight Canadian provinces, seven U.S. states, plus Russia, Sweden and Finland.



In that time, it will log just under 30,000 miles (just over 48,000 km), much of it in the company of its primary custodian, Phil Pritchard.



Officially, Pritchard is the Hockey Hall of Fame’s curator and the vice president of the resource center, but his Twitter handle...