Tampa Bay trolls haters with 'Mickey Mouse' Cups

Since winning back-to-back Stanley Cups over the last two NHL seasons, the Tampa Bay Lightning have taken a lot of flak from haters who want to diminish their wins. The Bolts' first Cup came in the Bubble Playoffs in 2020 after the regular season had been cut short. The team seemed well on its way to winning one anyway, but we'll never know for sure unless someone has a way to get to an alternate universe where COVID never existed. The Lightning's second Cup came after another shortened season where divisions looked vastly different from what they usually do. This has led to some attempting to demean Tampa's wins, saying there should be asterisks in the record book or calling the whole thing "Mickey Mouse". The Lightning's Twitter account has decided to fire back.

The Lightning put out a Tweet stating "Since we're in Orlando, we figured we'd check out the Mickey Mouse cups everyone's been talking about." That was followed by a picture of two drinking cups that were decorated with Mickey Mouse's famous pants, as well as his ears on the top of the cups. Orlando is the home of the Walt Disney World Resort.

Love them or hate them, there are no asterisks next to the Lightning's back-to-back wins in the record books or on Lord Stanley's Cup itself. As far as the NHL is concerned, those Cups were won according to the rules it had set out given the circumstances at the time. As for what fans think, that likely depends on whether they are Tampa Bay lovers or haters.

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