If you’re a hockey fan you are probably familiar with the customs and stories that surround the Stanley Cup. Specifically, the tradition that everyone who wins the cup gets to take it home for a day and do whatever they want with it. Past players have used it as a cooler, a dog bowl and a cup from which to drink champagne.

What you may not know, is that there’s a similar tradition that brought a professional hockey cup into the home of  Lake Highlands resident, Chad Siewert, corporate and community account manager for the Texas Brahmas Hockey Club. When his team won the Ray Miron President’s Cup, which is the trophy for winning the Central Hockey League’s championship, Siewert got a chance to bring it home.

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His experience with the Ray Miron President’s Cup was fairly tame compared to some of the Stanley Cup stories, but what would you expect from a brand new dad? “I brought it home because I have a week old baby,” Siewert said.  “Basically what I did with it was sit there and eat peanuts out of it and take photos of the baby in it.”

Siewert said none of his friends in Lake Highlands are big hockey fans and he couldn’t see himself taking the cup to a bar, so he decided to eat peanuts out of it while watching golf. “Me being a brand new dad, my energy was completely gone and I just wanted to hang out at home and have the cup there,” he said with a laugh.