The team’s 2020-21 championship rings include 338 diamonds and 52 sapphires in 14-carat white gold.
Alex Kilorn knows that Lightning owner Jeff Winnick and his wife Penny all go out when it comes time to celebrate.
That’s one reason the veteran forward was so excited about the private ceremony in Tampa where the team received the 2020-21 Stanley Cup ring on Thursday night.
“I don’t wear (my first ring) to coffee in the morning,” Kilorn joked Wednesday. “And when you have events like (Thursday) night, I wear my second ring, so you can both wear it and it’ll be great.”
The event, longer and more comprehensive than last year’s (the Kovid-1 was shortened by restrictions), was the last major team event to celebrate the second celebration of the Tampa Bay Back-to-Back Championship. Appropriately, the Stanley Cup was also on hand on this occasion.
The ring, designed by Justence (who made Lightning’s previous championship rings), has 338 diamonds and 52 sapphires in 14 carat white gold.
Among the design highlights:
At the top of the ring is a lightning logo made from 30 shiny custom-cut and 30 custom-cut sapphires set on a bed of baguette diamonds. The phrase “Stanley Cup Champions” is set up at the top and bottom, below 22 custom-cut sapphire baguettes. Cascade extra 56 diamonds on top 56.
The top flip opens to reveal the words “Cup Parade Repeat,” surrounded by three cups of diamonds, representing the franchise’s three Stanley Cups. Also included are popular phrases used throughout the season, such as “no. 1 BS, “Process Over Outcome” and “Work Over Hope. The bottom of the flip-top reads, “Last day of school” refers to players’ feelings that the playoff game will be their last together as a group before the expansion draft, free agency and pay cap will eat into their roster.
On the left side of the ring are the player’s last name and jersey number, with hockey skate marks in the background. On the right, two Stanley Cups are engraved with the years 2020 and 2021. At the bottom, fans hold the “Go Bolts” sign, saying yes to the team that won the cup on home ice.
The Lightning logo, made from custom blue ceramics in the interior, as well as the results of the 2021 playoff series, is the phrase “clinching shutouts” referring to bowler Andrei Vasilevsky’s recording shutouts that will return to the 2020 cuts. Last, Lightning’s combined playoff record of the last two seasons (32-13) and each player’s signature.
