The Blackhawks pulled double duty Friday night.
The players brought the Stanley Cup trophy to the Mumford & Sons’ concert at Montrose Beach, where the Blackhawks’ Niklas Hjalmarsson invited members of the Grammy-winning band to drink from the Cup on stage.
“It’s a great thing I didn’t tell (them) where it’s been the last couple days,” Hjalmarsson told the crowd once the band members were done drinking from the trophy, according to a video posted on YouTube.
Afterward, the guys headed about nine miles south to Northerly Island where they joined country singer Dierks Bentley on stage as he performed “Drunk On a Plane” during Windy City LakeShake music festival. Bentley was handed a No. 7 Blackhawks jersey (which he said was his lucky number) with his last name on the back of it.
“If you’re going to get drunk on a plane, you need a really big cup,” Bentley said as the players made their way on stage with the trophy. “You need a really big cup to get drunk on a plane.”
Bentley introduced Duncan Keith, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp individually as they each held up the trophy. And because it was a concert, there was also some stage diving – though Bentley felt the Blackhawks need to work on their form.
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“They can play hockey,” Bentley said, “but they don’t know how to stage dive.”
This wasn’t Kane’s first time bringing a trophy to a concert at Northerly Island. Kane brought the Stanley Cup to Jimmy Buffett’s show there in 2013. He also made a cameo with the Cup at Buffett’s concert at Toyota Park in 2010.
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