LEWISTON – It doesn’t take much to distract an eight-year-old.

But eight or 80, there is one thing in hockey that will make anyone associated with the game of hockey stop in their tracks: the Stanley Cup.

Dozens of Lewiston Area Youth Hockey skaters on the ice for mite-level evaluations Saturday morning at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee dropped everything as the door to the concession area crept open. Mike Bolt of the Hockey Hall of Fame stepped onto the ice carrying the holy grail of hockey. Sticks flopped, pucks stopped and jaws dropped as Bolt shuffled to the crease area of the goal cage.

“Whoa, cool,” echoed through the cavernous building over and over as some of the players tried to find their favorite players.

“Sidney Crosby isn’t on there, right?” one youngster asked above all the others.

Crosby, who played against the Lewiston Maineiacs with the Rimouski Oceanic for two years, is the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins and reigning NHL MVP. He isn’t on the Cup – at least not yet.

Others who stood in line for an hour or more Saturday morning awaiting the Cup’s arrival had other names and teams on their minds.

Paul Paradis, 41, of Lewiston, came dressed in a Montreal Canadiens jersey lettered with Jean Beliveau’s name and No. 4.

He scoured the trophy, looking for his team’s name and the players’ names from the years they won.

“This is the real thing, man, it was awesome,” Paradis said.

The Stanley Cup was at the Colisee in Lewiston as part of a whirlwind tour of Maine.

The Cup started at Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth early Saturday. Lewiston was its second stop, and then it was off to L.L. Bean in Freeport, the Portland Museum of Art and finally the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland before making its way to the Cumberland County Civic Center for Saturday night’s Portland Pirates home opener.

The Pirates’ parent club, the Anaheim Ducks, won the Cup last season.