Kurtis MacDermid might not remember what happened, but the videos going viral on Friday will be there as a friendly - hilarious - reminder. On Thursday, the Colorado Avalanche held the Stanley Cup parade in downtown Denver and as the day went on, we wondered if the players were going to make it out alive.
Now we have the same question about the Stanley Cup itself.
Thanks to the Spittin Chiclets who filmed at the club where the Avalanche players were partying, we have footage of MacDermid, so drunk, becoming the leaning tower of the Stanley Cup… The defenseman is hoisting the trophy one second, and then falls backwards with the Stanley Cup staff rushing to save the hardware and then the drunken man…
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The Stanley Cup is having a rough time in this championship run. It all started on Sunday when the Avalanche won it in Tampa Bay. Nicholas Aube-Kubel hoisted Lord Stanley’s trophy after the Avalanche beat the Lightning in six games to claim their first title in two decades. He was lugging the Cup over to the rest of the team for the classic “whole squad” photo, but launched it into the ice and giving it a nice dent…
Is the Stanley Cup going to survive an entire summer with the Avalanche drunk players?!