A curse cauldron
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The 1940 Rangers bested the Maple Leafs in six games to claim the Cup. After mistreating the trophy, they wouldn’t win it again for more than half a century. “I always say, you want to keep winning this, you respect it, because in 1940 the Rangers burned the deed [to the old Madison Square Garden] in the Cup and then urinated on it to put out the fire—and it was 54 years before they won it again,” Cup keeper Mike Bolt told Maxim in 2008. “But 99 percent of the guys, if not 100, are very respectful around it.”