A resident of Diamond Valley, Alta., a town roughly an hour south of Calgary, is prepared to gift Edmontonians what they’ve been longing for — a Stanley Cup.

In this case, it’s a replica.

Wildfred Plester built his own Stanley Cup about 20 years ago when the Calgary Flames were in the running for the 2004 Cup.

“The team at Black Diamond Industries is probably the only people that can make a claim that they’ve held onto a Stanley Cup for 21 years,” Plester jokes.

Pleister kept the 10-foot-tall trophy in his storage facility, thinking he’d be able to bring it back for the next time the Flames enter the final round.

But, it’s been slowly rotting.

“We just took it apart and put it in the storage, anticipating the possibility of maybe next year, and that became next year and the year

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