I was exaggerating when I implied that a hockey lynch mob was hot on the heels of Joe Elliott, but it appears that my previous statement was on the money. In an interview with 94.7 WCSX, Chris Chelios of the Detroit Red Wings stated that Joe Elliott purposely placed the Stanley Cup upside down.

"Chelios: "Someone should have drove that guy, he did that on purpose."

Lynne: "Joe Elliott did it on purpose?"

J.J.: "You think he did it on purpose?"

Chelios: "No, we know he did... we talked to people at the show and the guy was being real rude to everybody. He was in a bad mood when they got there, so for whatever reason he didn't want to be there. And that's his way of showing it and taking it out on the NHL.... Darren McCarty didn't really get a chance to see it; I guess he was going off the stage when it happened. And you know, Quincey (Kyle Quincey) was the only one that said he would have done something to him."

Lynne: "Do you think Quincey would have really popped him?"

Chelios: "No I don’t know if he would have popped him, but he could have gave him a good shove."

I have two valid theories on the cause of this sudden case of hockey + Def Leppard = wrestling. Either Vince McMahon secretly bought the NHL or this is just a very subtle tribute to Paul Newman's hockey masterpiece, Slapshot. The latter seems to be the most plausible.