Men’s hockey’s most coveted trophy arrived at the 46th annual Yukon Native Hockey Tournament this weekend in quintessential Yukon fashion: dog sled.

Tournament organizers, hockey players and community leaders celebrated the arrival of the Stanley Cup at a ceremony Saturday on Kwanlin Dün First Nation territory. The Yukon Native Hockey Tournament is one of the territory’s largest sporting events. This year’s tournament included 59 teams from across the Yukon, N.W.T., B.C. and Nunavut.

“For the tournament to be on their land for the last 46 years, and having it out here to see the wilderness and really signify the beauty of the Yukon … was truly special,” said Rick McLean, President of the Yukon First Nations Hockey Association and one of the tournament organizers.

The ceremony paid tribute to the Dawson City Nuggets, a team made up of mostly amateur hockey players from Dawson City that challenged the reigning champion Ottawa Hockey Club for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The team travelled nearly 6,400 kilometres by train, ship, bike and dog sled to Ottawa to play for the Cup, before ultimately falling to the Ottawa team.