Looking at Every Cup Winner From 1980 Through 2021 

Tainted by the “illegal stick curve” call. Salty Kings fan here!

@@saundersinlinehockeybakers240 Imagine if Gretzky was called for high stick on Gilmours face and given a penalty. Kings had tainted Conf win. Should have been Leafs vs Habs in final!!

Greatest run I ever saw

It's crazy, they had a 10-1 record in OT's that year. It's a strong support why arguably Roy was one of the greatest playoff goalies in NHL history.

and the one year I missed the cup finals...I was in Somalia on HMCS Preserver and only found out we won the cup 3 days after it was over

One of? Dude is the Undisbuted Champ.

They made both the cap and the minimum team salary too small. If you can’t spend enough to compete, within reason you don’t belong in the league. And if the Rangers of the early 2000s are any indication, spending a lot of money is no guarantee of success. You just end up with a country club full of lazy millionaires.

You are right. The last thin the nhl needs is something like MLB where the playing field is completely unbalanced for the big markets. In the nhl, you know that the management had to construct a team, not just throw money about to win. And we are rewarded with a lot of parity (said even as a team plays for a threepeat:=)

@@smithryansmith Throwing money about to win is the Euro soccer leagues mentality, bigger and richer teams alway win because all they do is overpay any player the media hypes sometimes many of those players are wildly talented but the issue they all end up in a pool of a handful of Clubs that continue to dominate the standings every season for that obvious reason they just got too much money than the rest.

Islanders just don't get the credit they deserve. Also, Bossy was the greatest goal scorer the game has ever seen yet we rarely hear about the man. RIP legend

19 Straight Playoff Victories is Still a Record Today , Doesn’t matter what there average / Standing’s , Power Rankings, etc ……. 🧐

Whereas defensive forward John Madden is not the John Madden of the NHL.

I didn’t even think about how difficult this run has been for them.

Yeah I actually thought that first round bolts/leafs series winner would represent east in the cup final

Rangers was 7th

My thoughts as well ..if tampa wins this year they look stronger than ever...knocking off the maple leafs, sweeping the panthers...4 straight wins against the rangers..they might be able to go for 4 if they can knock off the avs

😂 this a ridiculous comment.

Word

96,97,99,00,02...never duplicated.

If it wasn't for the 2014 Kings the Blackhawks could have won 3 Stanley Cups in a row

That’ll happen when you play for 9 teams

@@Deenaziamazinjg14 you are correct...feels he's played for more.

@@richardmelendez8614 could be more I just counted it quick, but I don’t think it’s that incredible of a stat and he didn’t join the league till 1990 so the 80-90 is pure luck he had a player from each team get signed or traded to Pittsburgh before they retired

to further elaborate: it was with a couple of other Oilers and after they saw the exhausted Islanders they remarked how they felt they could play several more games. They learned they hadn't put it all on the ice.

What also Surprised Gretzky was how Professional they acted & Saw how banged up the islanders we’re and Still gave all they had !! Today’s athlete’s Skate off the ice with a Pimple 🏆

Gretzky and other players did go into the Islanders locker room because they wanted to congratulate them. They were expecting to see them celebrating. He said he learned a lot from those Islander teams which helped the Oilers also become a dynasty

@@daved1535 - YES, i watched the Ny islanders Dynasty video twice ( been awhile ). the Oilers we're Shocked to see how Professional + banged up as they left it all on the ice to win the Stanley Cup which gave them Motivation, etc .... Don't think anyone was Stopping that Young Talented Oilers team anyway.

Well let's hope they don't, GoAvsGo 😉

Having to come back from being down in multiple series, threepeat in this economy, beating an avs team who went 12-2, it’d be historic of them to But, of course: Go Ass, Hail Satan

I don't really agree with this methodology. Not to take too much away from how well Tampa shut down Florida, but if you look at the first round, the Panthers struggled against the 13th seed Capitals and just didn't look the same as they'd looked throughout the regular season. Tampa obviously played amazingly to limit them to 3 goals in 4 games, but I'd argue that it was a mix of Tampa's amazing play and Florida's subpar play. While this definitely doesn't clear everything up and would be way more complicated to calculate, I'd be more inclined to look at a points percentage based standings starting after the trade deadline since that's when teams are "complete" (minus injuries), but that still doesn't fully factor in playoff performance (and didn't do great this year, 7-7 so far, largely hampered by Tampa and Colorado who account for 5 out of 7 losses by the higher "seeded" team). For this season that's still Toronto/Florida 2/3, Rangers 9th, Avs 11th which is 6.25 average. For this season, those standings are (using standings from after the March 20th games, though it's debatable if I should include March 21st games since very few TDL pickups play in games for their new team the day of the TDL, I also did much of the math in my head so there are bound to be some small errors): MIN: 17-2-3 = .841 (lost to 4 in 1st round) FLA: 16-4-0 = .800 (beat 18 in 1st round, lost to 14 in the 2nd) TOR: 15-3-2 = .800 (lost to 14 in the 1st round) STL: 15-4-2 = .761 (beat 1 in 1st round, lost to 11 in 2nd) EDM: 14-4-2 = .750 (beat 13 in 1st round, 7 in 2nd, lost to 11 in 3rd) CAR: 13-5-2 = .700 (beat 10 in 1st round, lost to 9 in 2nd) CGY: 12-5-3 = .675 (beat 12 in 1st round, lost to 5 in 2nd) VAN: 10-4-4 = .667 (missed playoffs) NYR: 12-6-1 = .658 (beat 22 in 1st round, 6 in 2nd, lost to 14 in 3rd) BOS: 13-7-0 = .650 (lost to 6 in 1st round) COL: 12-6-2 = .650 (beat 20 in 1st round, 4 in 2nd, 5 in the 3rd, playing 14 for cup) DAL: 12-6-3 = .643 (lost to 7 in 1st round) LAK: 10-5-3 = .639 (lost to 5 in 1st round) TBL: 12-7-2 = .619 (beat 3 in 1st round, 2 in 2nd, 9 in 3rd, playing 11 for cup) VGK: 9-5-4 = .611 (missed playoffs) BUF: 10-6-3 = .605 (missed playoffs) OTT: 11-7-2 = .600 (missed playoffs) WSH: 9-7-2 = .556 (lost to 2 in 1st round) WPG: 10-8-1 = .553 (missed playoffs) NSH: 9-8-3 = .525 (lost to 11 in 1st round) NYI: 11-10-1 = .522 (missed playoffs) PIT: 8-9-2 = .474 (lost to 9 in 1st round) DET: 7-10-3 = .425 (this and all teams below missed playoffs) SEA: 8-11-0 = .421 CHI: 6-10-3 = .395 SJS: 5-10-5 = .375 CBJ: 5-10-4 = .368 NJD: 5-11-4 = .350 ARI: 5-12-3 = .325 ANA: 4-11-3 = .306 MON: 5-13-2 = .300 PHI: 5-15-0 = .250

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@@jonmendelson1104 That's very interesting. I would've never thought Dallas did better than Tampa after March 20th

I’m in a very similar boat. I don’t remember what grade I was in but I was a kid. I became a devils fan and Brodeur fan when I saw them take down the redwings in ‘95

They were. From 96 to 02 they made the conference finals 6 times, losing 4 times, 3 times losing in game 7.

18 dif teams have one in 42 years that’s a large amount of teams bigger than any other league!

@@Deenaziamazinjg14 That kind of matches the math I had above though right? 4-5 teams winning per decade roughly, four decades total. 16-20 different winners.

@@brandonnarayan5796 it makes sense for a team to get good win a few times then fall off so your not wrong at all and the math works out! But it’s not reserved for a select few like your comment said.

@Matt Joseph exactly nhl has the most among any sports league in that timeframe!

Yes, glad someone else caught that error. I think Atlanta was knocked out by the Rangers that year?

@@legrandfromage6450 Yup. Last Atlanta Flames game ever was their elimination loss to the Rangers. The Flames tradition of lousy playoff performances started in Atlanta.

Colorado nashville, even series till the hockey happens! No favourites!

The 90s teams were no slouches either! Yzerman, Fedorov, Kozlov, Konstantinov, Shanahan, Lidstrom.. a whose who of 90s hockey

I’d argue the late 90s teams were even better. Some of those HOFers on the 02 team were past their prime, whereas the 90s teams had everyone in their prime, including guys like Kozlov, Murphy, to name a few who weren’t on the 02 team.

the fact that they had 2 hall of famers on their 3rd line is just stupid lol I don't even know how my Avs got them to 7 games

@@ShowHero No doubt! Any team with Lidstrom on it is bound to be good.

@@RIPJimmyA7X the avs also had a lot of HOF on that team to

The amazing thing about the Leafs isn't that they haven't won a cup. It's that they haven't even been to the Finals. That's almost impossible. Of the rest of the league, only the Jets/Coyotes and the post 1999 expansion teams have failed to make the finals. Even all six of the teams added between 1991 and 1998 have made the finals at least once.

Tim Thomas ruined it for the Canucks. 1 more win and the Cup would have been the Canucks to hold and never forget!

I wanna see a team go 16-0

In 1975, the Islanders went down 3-0 to Pittsburgh and came back and won the series. Next round, they went down 3-0 to Philadelphia, then won 3 straight to tie the series before losing game seven. That was their first ever playoff run.

That’s what happens when you built dominant teams it’s not depressing it’s how sports work in every league lol

@@Deenaziamazinjg14 It's depressing when none of them are your team lol

@@Nud182 imagine being a fan in nba only 13 teams in same time frame? And it’s not depressing because 1 team wins each year that means your team could go hundreds of years without winning a cup because 3% is terrible odds every year!

Dallas was a really good team. They also probably should have won more than once.

Dallas of the late 90s reminding me of the Flames of the late 80s. Both teams were good enough to win more than 1 Cup but had their nemesis that would stop them. The 80s Flames had the Oilers that beat them and the 90s Stars had the Red Wings. Both teams nemesis were beaten by teams that were better matchups for them the years they won the Cup. In 1989 the Oilers were beaten by the Kings who the Flames beat the next rd. In 1999 the Red Wings were beaten by the Avalanche who the Stars beat next rd.

First day of summer lol

If the Islanders aren't so banged up maybe they win five in a row.

@@MrOctober44 Against the Oilers that is a nasty discussion

@Matt Joseph then I’m pretty sure Patrick Roy would not have made that infamous roast saying that he had two Stanley Cup rings at that time

Maybe if Canadiens weren't so banged up they could of won a fifth straight in '80

@@legrandfromage6450 idk maybe but the Islanders in 1980 were very stacked