NHL:
The Apple Campus, an iconic part of Silicon Valley, sits less than 10 miles from SAP Center, the home of the San Jose Sharks and the heart of 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend.
A day after Apple employees lined up for hours to see the Stanley Cup at Apple Park down the road, about 300 who signed up online packed the auditorium for the panel discussion.
On stage before a black backdrop with a white Apple logo, McDavid and Matthews sat with Commissioner Bettman and Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Each wore an Apple Watch.
“We love the collaboration that we have with Apple,” Commissioner Bettman said. “It has helped transform the game without changing the game itself.”
I bet it was a lot of fun for the Apple employees to hang out with The Stanley Cup, even if some of them had to have an explanation of what it was.
Saw coworkers showing up to take pictures with the cup that I didn’t even realize were hockey fans. Was surprised by how many non Sharks jerseys I saw.
My connection to the Stanley Cup is a co-worker who was hired by the NHL to fix it after it returns from a year of ownership by the winning team. Over and over he would repair it so that it would be in good shape for the next team to take it and: drink out of it, drop it to the bottom of their swimming pool, bend and dent it, scratch the heck out of it, break off pieces. The list goes on and on. He loved doing it.
Probably the Canadians working there. 🙂