Ice Hockey.
1. a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
2. the best-of-seven-games series in which the champion of the Prince of Wales Conference and that from the Clarence S. Campbell Conference oppose each other for this trophy.
[ named after Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston (1841-1908), governor general of Canada, who donated the trophy for the best amateur team of the 1893-94 season ]