NHL champion fills Stanley Cup with ice cream at a famous Ontario shop
In keeping with the tradition of Stanley Cup winners filling the trophy bowl with their food of choice, one Carolina Hurricanes player chose what is perhaps Ontario's most iconic ice cream for his victory meal.
I'm no sports expert — hell, I'm barely even a hockey fan — but one thing I do know is food. So when Hurricanes defenceman Sean Walker, on his individual day with the trophy, brought the Stanley Cup home to Keswick, Ontario, what he chose to fill the bowl with came as little surprise.
The championship winner packed the trophy up and brought it to nearby Newmarket, swinging by Kawartha Dairy's location there to fill the bowl with heaping scoops of what appeared to be Cookies and Cream, vanilla, and Pralines and Cream (or maybe Butterscotch Ripple?).
Kawartha Dairy shared a video of the experience on Instagram, with the cheeky description "POV you bring your own cup to Kawartha Dairy."
"Look who stopped by Kawartha Dairy in Newmarket," the ice cream shop writes in the caption of the post. "Canadian hockey player, Sean Walker from the Carolina Hurricanes celebrated his Stanley Cup win with some Kawartha Dairy ice cream."
According to the NHL, Kawartha Dairy wasn't the only stop on Walker's itinerary on his day in Newmarket. The player also visited the city's Southlake Health, Stanley Cup in tow, to visit patients in the hospital's pediatric oncology ward. That alone is worth an extra scoop.
Walker later brought the cup to his former haunt, Keswick's Georgina Ice Palace, where he got his start on skates.
If you want to score a scoop of Kawartha Dairy for yourself, you can visit their Toronto location at 888 Danforth Ave. And don't worry about bringing your own cup — Stanley or otherwise — they have plenty there for you.
