STUDIO CITY, Calif. — There aren’t many things that can upstage the Stanley Cup, but a pack of precocious puppies tried their best on a May morning in the San Fernando Valley.
The Cup and pups were there to help film the inaugural “Stanley Pup,” which highlights the importance of animal adoption by letting 16 dogs representing each of the teams that qualified for the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs — including Sergei Bobruffsky and Connor McDoodle — playfully compete for a pooch-sized version of the famed trophy.
Michael Levitt, producer of the hour-long show which will be broadcast on NHL Network and ESPN+ in the United States on Friday at 8 p.m. ET and on Sportsnet in Canada on Saturday at 6 p.m., sees hockey and animal rescue as a pairing as natural as two defensemen on the blue line.
Source: nhl.com
