Not a floatation device
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Several players have attempted to swim with the Cup, finding out on their own that it’s more difficult than it sounds. “It doesn’t float,” Phil Bourque said in 2008, 17 years after he won the Cup with the Penguins and took it into Mario Lemieux’s pool. “We put it in Mario’s pool and it sinks in a matter of 10 seconds. We didn’t want to hurt it because you got to respect the Cup, but you want have some fun with it too.” Patrick Roy learned the same thing in 1993.