If you didn’t already wish you weren’t too old or too young or too lacking in hockey skills to win a Stanley Cup, a browse through photos of the Chicago Blackhawks’ new championship rings won’t ease your yearning.
“We wanted to do something that had a wow factor, that was real special,” Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz told NHL.com at Sunday’s private ring presentation ceremony in downtown Chicago.
Mission accomplished.
Designed by Jostens in collaboration with the Blackhawks, the 2013 Stanley Cup rings feature hockey’s greatest logo fashioned in round brilliant and marquis-cut diamonds with custom-cut tapered rubies set on a background of 14-karat white gold. Each ring weighs 93 grams and contains a mellow 260 diamonds and gemstones.
“It really comes out at you,” said Conn Sythe winner Patrick Kane. “The red in the rubies and the colour on the sides. Sick.”
Each ring is personalized with the player’s name and respective number. And five diamond-studded Stanley Cup trophies representing the club’s five championships (1934, 1938, 1961, 2010, 2013) gleam from the side.
Jostens designed and produced the pieces in its operations in Minneapolis, Montreal and Denton, Texas.
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Photos of the Blackhawks’ “sick” new rings, via the team and Jostens:
The Chicago Blackhawks put together a comparison between the 2010 championship ring and the new bling:
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