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The announcers at the Colorado Avalanche game bear resemblance to the Chinese announcers in "Conjoined Fetus Lady", possibly doing their perfected American impersonations.
Cartman and Kenny do not appear in this episode, while Kyle only appears in one scene.
This is the only episode with Stan's name in the title.
The council member who Stan speaks to about his bike has the same voice as the narrator of Rob Schneider's films in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe". This is further lampooned when the council member tells Stan how he can have his bike returned, while speaking in a narrative tone and physically scratching a record. He continues to do this throughout the episode.
The kid who has leukemia on the team has the "unlucky" number 13 on his shirt. This is a gag that Kenny is frequently subject to.
This episode is one of the very few where it ends badly for the central "hero".
This is the last episode to be censored on DVD.
On IMDb, "Stanley's Cup" and "A Million Little Fibers", both Season 10 episodes, are among the lowest rated South Park episodes on the website, at 7.4 and 6.3 stars, respectively. Coincidentally, another Season 10 episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft", is the second highest rated episode of the entire series on the website, at 9.5 stars.

References to Popular Culture[]

The episode title is a pun on the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy in the National Hockey League.
This episode is an extended parody of the classic Mighty Ducks trilogy, more specifically from the first film, The Mighty Ducks.
Some of the advertisements at the Park County Hockey Rink include Lizard Ade, a parody of Gatorade, and Moca Cola, referencing Coca-Cola.
The song "Song 2" by Blur plays during the first pee wee hockey match against Adams County.
The song "We Are the Champions" by Queen also plays at the end showing the winning teams celebrations.
Australian zoologist and television show host, Steve Irwin and his death by a stingray is mentioned twice in this episode.
Underneath the scoreboard in the shot of the audience at the Pepsi Center is an advertisement that says "Gotta Love It!" next to an upside down McDonald's logo. Outside of his gluten free diet, Trey Parker is a huge fan of McDonald's.
The plot with the dying kid in the hospital resembles that of BASEketball, a sports comedy film starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone as the main cast.
- In BASEketball, a tie in the first game resulted in a kid in the hospital going into a tied battle with cancer.
- In the episode, Stan mentions that they fulfilled every movie cliché in order to win the last game.
The final score line of the match (32-2) may be a reference to an infamous FIFA World Cup qualifying match between Australia and American Samoa, in which the Australians thrashed the American Samoans 31 to 0. The American Samoa team was plagued by visa issues, and had to draft under-18 players against the fully-professional Australian team.

Continuity[]

The references to Steve Irwin recall the controversies that arose from "Hell on Earth 2006".
Stan says that he does not know what to say when someone is dying. He had a similar, though much larger predicament in "Kenny Dies".
- The Get Well balloons for Kenny in that episode are reused for the cancer patient in this episode.
In Mr. Jarvis' office, there are newspaper articles pinned up about the creature called Scuzzlebutt, Mr. Garrison's invention and the smug warnings.
This is the third time where Stan and Kyle are seen as four-year-olds/five-year-olds, the other times being in "Pre-School" and "Summer Sucks".
An advertisement for S'more Beer can be seen, a callback to "The Red Badge of Gayness", which appears to be Randy Marsh's favorite alcoholic beverage.

Goofs[]

During the match between the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche, the players are wearing the wrong color jerseys. As the Red Wings are the visiting team, they should be wearing their white away jersey, while the Avalanche should be wearing their burgundy and blue home jersey.
At one point, Sharon says that Stan was only 4 when he lost the first Pee-Wee Hockey game in kindergarten. However, in the United States, kindergarteners are usually around 6 years old.

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Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Stanleyho pohár	Stanley's Cup
French	La Coupe Stanley	The Stanley Cup
German	Stanley's Cup	Stanley's Cup
Hungarian	Stanley kupája	Stanley Cup
Italian	Vincere o perdere	Win or Lose
Polish	Stanley Cup	Stanley Cup
Spanish	La Copa Stanley	The Stanley Cup