No one wants to deal with checking luggage for a trip, especially international travel with multiple layovers. Who knows if all of your baggage will make it to every destination? What happens if Air Canada or Lufthansa or whoever doesn’t put your suitcase in the luggage hold?
Flying from Novosibirsk to Moscow to Munich to Toronto is quite the haul for anyone, but it turned into a slog for the keeper of the Cup, Phil Prichard:
Long story short, Vladimir Tarasenko spent his day celebrating in Novosibirsk and then had to hand over the Stanley Cup to Bill Armstrong for his day a couple of days later.