Hundreds of people came to the Meadow Lake Arena Wednesday to see the Stanley Cup and get their pictures taken with it.
Meadow Lake’s own Dwight King of the Los Angeles Kings brought the cup to the arena for a couple of hours.
He posed for photos and signed autographs on pieces of paper, hats, shirts, L.A. King jerseys – even a cellphone.
The line-up was so long they finally had to cut it off and turn away a couple of hundred people.
King told reporters he was sorry to do that, but he had a tight schedule to keep in order to celebrate the Cup’s visit in a private function with family and friends.
He said he was glad he was able to share the Stanley Cup with hundreds of other people, though.
King grew up in Meadow Lake and played all his minor hockey there.
Mayor Gary Vidal says sharing the Stanley Cup is just one way King has shown his interest in the community.
He says King has been quite visible in the community over the summer months, adding King was in the Meadow Lake area almost as soon as his team won the Stanley Cup.
This is the second time in the last decade that the Stanley Cup has come to Meadow Lake. Jeff Friesen brought it back to the community in 2003 after winning the Cup with New Jersey that year.