Talk about going from the penthouse to the outhouse.

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Kris Draper's hoisted the Cup, but his newborn daughter had other ideas when placed in it.

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Turns out that Kamryn Draper, baby daughter of Kris Draper, a Detroit Red Wings centre and a former Ottawa 67, used the hallowed Cup as a toilet bowl earlier this summer, dumping a load when placed in the trophy.

"A week after we won it, I had my newborn daughter in there and she pooped in the Cup," Draper said in a Detroit Free Press story that appeared on Monday. "That was something. We had a pretty good laugh. I still drank out of it that night, so no worries."

We're betting that future winners of the championship will pause and take a long look before chugging from the Cup from now on. It certainly gives new meaning to the phrase the "drink of champions."

But Baby Draper's ill-timed bowel movement is simply the latest incident in the colourful history of misadventures involving the NHL championship trophy.

It has been used as a dog bowl, cereal bowl, ice cream bowl and fish bowl. Former Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman apparently showered with it and former Colorado Avalanche defenceman Sylvain Lefebvre used the Cup to baptize his daughter.

At least twice the Cup has ended up at the bottom of celebrating players' swimming pools, including those belonging to Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado's Patrick Roy.

In 1994, Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin ate from the Stanley Cup. When Larry Robinson returned to his home in Marvelville as head coach of the Stanley Cup-winning New Jersey Devils in 2000, he also allowed a cow to eat hay from the trophy.

The Cup was paraded around strip clubs in Edmonton in 1987 and New York City in 1994 following championship victories by the Oilers and Rangers, respectively.

Back in the early days, the Cup was often lost or left behind. After winning the Cup in 1924, several members of the Montreal Canadiens left the Cup at the side of the road after fixing a flat tire en route to a team party.

In 1906, a photographer taking pictures of the championship Montreal squad used the award as a vase for flowers. The photographer's mother continued to use the Cup as a vase for geraniums for weeks until the embarrassed club came back looking for it.

A year earlier, when the Ottawa Silver Seven owned the trophy, a member of the team attempted to kick the Cup across the Rideau Canal. It didn't make it and remained on the frozen ice overnight before being retrieved.

Consider Baby Draper's stunt simply part of the poop on the history of the trophy's travels.