On his Steven Lorentz wanted to fashion it into a Bloody Caesar and drink deep. After all, (Just try ordering clamato juice mixer in America. They’ll think you mad.

) Except the trophy’s official chaperones wouldn’t let him rim the chalice with celery salt: “I guess there are rules against that.’’ An Over its 130-year history, the tiered-cake Cup has been taken for a swim, plopped into a stripper’s lap, filled with oats for the Kentucky Derby winner, punted into the Rideau Canal, forgotten on the side of the road, served as a baptismal font for a baby, had another baby pee in it, was accidentally dropped into a bonfire and once functioned as a vessel in which the New York Rangers ritualistically burned off their mortgage on Madison Square Garden. Lorentz contented himself heaping the Cup with bratwurst and sauerkraut, in homage to his German roots.

But he also reverently carried the trophy to a hospital in hometown Kitchener, to a local rink, to his gym and finally to a celebratory knees-up. “It’s heavy. By the end of the night I had to use my knees to hoist it up.

’’ The line at RIM Park in Waterloo is getting bigger as Waterloo’s Steven Lorentz of the Florida Panthers brings the Stanley Cup back to the region The 28-year-old (six-foot-four, 206 pounds) may be on a humble professional tryout contract but at least he can tell some Stanley Cup yarns — ...

Chances are slim that Lorentz will emerge from training camp with a new contract under his arm. and.