https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup
What an awesome soup tureen. It definitely was not designed or originally derived from a punch bowl, it's far too small for that. I disagree with the historians on that point. The infant barely even fits in it to prove it. That would be one small party with a punch bowl that small for it.
And it is one ugly trophy. The way they add on to it year after year, and then take a lower ring off when it's full, is wacky and tacky. Why not just hand out a new silver soup tureen every year, with a nice base on it that don't look like a silver oil drum?
And as far as touching or raising it goes, was the guy who actually made this replica from Chicago? I'm also guessing nobody from Chicago made the original, either. But I bet whoever made it must have touched it and raised it up a lot. And I bet they touched it in loving ways you can only dream about touching it.
By the way, look at the REAL trophy behind the soup tureen of the first winning team on that wiki link, THAT'S WHAT A TROPHY SHOULD LOOK LIKE!
Even this one was better in the 1940's: