Every kid who ever laces up a pair of skates and participates in competitive hockey dreams of one day being forever memorialized as a champion. The ultimate goal is to have one’s name engraved on the most iconic trophy in all of sports, the Stanley Cup. Up until now, an important demographic has been left out of that fantasy: family members of team owners.

But Tom Dundon, who owns the Carolina Hurricanes, is changing all that. On the heels of the franchise’s second Stanley Cup title in 20 years, the exec made sure that he and five other members of his family got their names etched into the prime real estate—before front office members, staff and players.

Stanley Cup controversy

This is what people noticed when the team shard a picture of the updated Cup on X.

Now look, the Cup is very, very busy aesthetically and there is limited space. It’s each individual franchise’s prerogative to decide who makes the cut in terms of having their name included and who gets left out. There’s a chance that defenseman Joel Nystrom, who played 38 games for Carolina before spending the remainder of the year in the AHL, understands why he’s not features. The same can be said for minority investors Brett Jefferson, Marc Grandisson and Bobby Farnham.

There are certainly some people who would be ticked off by the slight, though. Responses from fans to the post seem to suggest not all of them love what was done either.

Players who participate in 41 games or more are guaranteed to have their names on the Cup. As mentioned, each team is allotted space for 55 names. Organizations are large and complicated so there’s always going to be some on the outside looking in.

For what it’s worth, Florida Panthers owner also had his relatives’ names engraved when his team captured back-to-back crowns.

The lesson here, as always, is that it’s great to be at the top of the food chain.