'BQSTQN' Bruins and other classic Stanley Cup engraving mistakes

Hey, nobody’s perfect. Not even the greatest trophy in sports.

The Stanley Cup sports its fair share of dents and dings from some late-night escapades and unfortunate mishaps, but hockey’s most coveted trophy also features a rich history of typos. Every NHL player dreams of having their names etched on Lord Stanley’s Cup one day, but most probably don’t dream about having their names butchered, which has happened to about a dozen or so of them throughout the years.

Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante has a different spelling to commemorate each Cup win, as five versions of his name were etched onto the trophy. More recently, Colorado Avalanche winger Adam Deadmarsh was almost brought to tears — according to keeper of the Cup Phillip Pritchard, per the Wall Street Journal — when he found out his named was spelled “Deadmarch” following the Avs’ 1996 Cup win.

That’s still not as bad as the Toronto Maple Leafs going down in history as the “Leaes” in 1963 or the Boston Bruins being immortalized as “BQSTQN” in 1972.

Now, the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning will battle for spelling mistakes — er, for the Cup — in this year's Stanley Cup Final. And with names like Teuvo Teravainen and Niklas Hjalmarsson on the Chicago side squaring off against the nightmare spellings of Valtteri Filppula and Vladislav Namestnikov, a botched spelling is almost inevitable.

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