Trophies only weigh a lot when you’re looking at them.

The moment they touch your hands in victory, they feel like feathers.

Just ask a few former Lewiston Maineiacs.

Chad Denny, Mathieu Aubin and Olivier Legault all tasted success this season, and each had the chance to hoist a championship trophy.

“It’s just unbelievable,” Denny said earlier this summer.

Denny was the last to finish his quest. He hoisted the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup after the Chicago Wolves finished off a 4-2 series win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

“It’s something you dream about as a little kid,” Denny said. “It brings back memories of lifting the President’s Cup … with Lewiston.”

Aubin tasted victory from a second different cup in as many years this year, helping his ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones to a Kelly Cup title. Last year, he helped the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL lift the Calder Cup.

“It was a lot different this time around, a lot better,” Aubin said. “I got to play more. There were a lot of guys from the Quebec league on the team, too, which made it very special.”

Legault was unreachable following his win.

The former Maineiacs’ enforcer was third on the Fort Wayne Komets during the regular season this year with 178 penalty minutes, adding three goals and six assists for nine points. His Komets clinched the Turner Cup as champions of the International Hockey League with a Game 7, triple-overtime thriller against the Port Huron Icehawks.

Denny was in a similar situation this season to that of Aubin in 2007 – he was there to watch every single Chicago playoff game, and participated in every grueling practice, but didn’t see any ice time during the games.

“Still, we were there,” Denny said of himself and his six teammates who shared his situation.

With about five minutes to play in the game, and his team holding a sizable lead, team officials told him to get dressed in his hockey gear and wait in the tunnel.

“As the horn blew, we were already out on the ice,” Denny said. “It was amazing.”

Aubin, meanwhile, contributed much more this time around. As a top-line forward, the former Maineiacs’ sniper had 57 points in just 47 games played, having spent more time with Hamilton this season. In the playoffs, Aubin had eight goals and 14 points in 22 games played.

Now, Aubin, Denny and Legault have set the bar for championships, and the only major North American hockey trophy for which a former Lewiston skater has not yet competed is the big one – the Stanley Cup.

“I think they need to step up,” Aubin laughed. “Really, though, you have to be on the right team at the right moment.”