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    Alex Tumalip
    Aug 6, 2024, 00:00

    The newly signed Utah forward took the premier championship trophy in North America to the place where his hockey roots were laid down.

    The Stanley Cup is a coveted prize for any hockey player across the world.

    So, when you get your day with it after you've won the Cup, you've got to do it right.

    In the case of newly signed Utah Hockey Club forward Kevin Stenlund, he brought the Cup back to where he first dreamed of lifting Lord Stanley.

    The Swede, who inked a two-year deal to join the new expansion franchise on the first day of free agency, took the Cup to his hometown of Tumba, Sweden, in what was a full-circle moment for him.

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    You can imagine how cool it was for everyone in that rink to get a chance to even look at Lord Stanley, but only Stenlund can touch it after surviving a seven-game war with the pesky Edmonton Oilers to get his mitts on it this past June.

    Of course, he'll now join defencemen Mikhail Sergachev (2020, 2021) and Ian Cole (2016, 2017) as a Stanley Cup winner on the Utah squad, and that experience should work wonders for the club this season.