By big rig Jul 13, 2021 The photo is 100% real. It shows player Pat Maroon holding a heavily dented Stanley Cup after a day celebration around Tampa Bay. The team has had more than enough hate since winning the cup with the post game press conference with a wasted Nikita Kucherov serving as the starting point. This ISN'T the first time the cup has been damaged though. Here is a brief history of "damaged Stanley Cups" over the years. Being drop-kicked into the Rideau Canal in 1905 by the original incarnation of the Ottawa Senators Briefly misplaced by the 1906 Montreal Wanderers as they posed for their championship photo