Louise St. Jacques is the trophy's official engraver, only the fourth person to ever have that role. She takes the trophy to her studio in Montreal every September to engrave the names of the championship team and all its members.
The Cup is disassembled from the top down and the bottom band removed from the base so St. Jacques can imprint the names. It takes her about 30 minutes to inscribe each name and about ten hours overall.
As room runs out on the trophy, the bands are periodically swapped out and stored. Retired trophy rings are kept alongside the original trophy in the Lord Stanley vault in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
Blackhawk players have had their names misspelled on the trophy twice: once in 1938, when left winger Pete Palangio's name appeared as "Palagio," and again in 2010, when left winger Kris Versteeg's name initially was engraved as "Vertseeg" before being corrected.
Henry Richard of the Montreal Canadiens appears most often on the Cup as a player with eleven times.
Wonder How Much Louise gets Paid for the Engraving-- HockeyPuck
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