Which NHL Team is Next to Win Their First Cup? 2024 Edition 

Hahaha you're probably right

That's absolutely brutal

Wrong Toronto will win in 2027

I would lose my mind if Columbus won before Toronto good Lord

Very likely indeed.

@@brandyndaigneault1758 ouch

They have the worst owner in the NHL.

@@axe2grind244 I agree

Window will be short. Players like ROR, Stamkos, and March have contracts that are gonna be killers in if they start to fall off. That’s with the fact they are still paying dead cap for two players.

My only issue with Nashville is that they have a relatively short window as most of their big guys are already at their peak. Will be an exciting team to watch

​@@icecoldpolitics8890 True. If those guys underperform, then Nashville will be in trouble.

@@JD200_ Right. Hopefully ROR and Stamkos can continue to perform. If so, Nashville will be dangerous. But as you both have said, they do have a short window.

Agreed with everything that has been said but Nashville and Vegas and few others have an advantage with a few others being Tax free states

I saw Bobby Orr play in Buffalo in 1972. And wasn't he something? Good luck to the Canucks I was pulling for them in the playoffs.

As a Sharks fan, a long-time hockey fan in general starting with the Capitals when I was a kid in the 70s, and someone who is starting to creep towards the end of middle age, I'm pulling for you. When I was a youngster, those orange and yellow V-sweaters made getting a Canucks hockey card an event. As an adult I've been up to Vancouver three times, and every time was memorable in a good way. Stanley Park, Jericho Beach, good food, cool neighborhoods, sea kayaking. I watched the Canadians beat Venezuela in soccer up there last weekend. We went to a Sharks game up their in December of '22 and the Shark got spanked in the Golden Seals sweaters. The people are nice too. Canadians are such a nice contrast to many Americans....not that I don't love my own people...kinda...sometimes. I'd take the Canucks or Predators over any western team other than the Sharks. I've met a lot of nice Canucks supporters up there. And you don't have Burrows, LaPierre or Rafi Torres anymore. I hated him the most. And then he came to the Sharks...and I had to kind of like him...but still.

I hope so for your sake! You’ve been a good and dedicated fan obviously and you deserve to see your team lift the cup!!!!!

This is the correct answer

@@T0eTickler30 Sadly, yes.

My heart: def not the Sabres My brain: absolutely positively 1000% not the Sabres Utah will win the Cup before the Sabres make the post season. Pegula is a disgrace and needs to sell the team now.

@@axe2grind244 disagree with the first point, strongly agree with the second

True, although Minnesota has double the pain, having a team in all four major leagues.

@@oskarihonkasaari3215 They were able to be happy all of a week when the PWHL team won and then management went on a power trip and started gutting the winning coaches.

I think Buffalo has blown past Minny in NHL and NFL misery a looooooooong time ago. Nothing catastrophic happens to Minny teams, where as Bills and Sabres fans know for a fact something very bad is going to happen and to nobody’s shock, it always does.

​​@@axe2grind244Nothing catastrophic happens to Minnesota teams?? Vikings: get destroyed in NFCCG in '17 a week after miraculous "Minneapolis Miracle" with a chance to be the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium. 2015 Blair Walsh misses a 27 yard field goal in 3rd coldest NFL game to lose NFC wild card game, 2012 lose to rival Packers in playoffs, 2009 Brett Favre throw across body for INT in NFCCG--part of biggest "bountygate" bust in NFL history, 2000 NFCCG lose 41-0 with rumors Gianta have access to MN headset radio, 1998 NFCCG Gary Anderson misses 1st kick of year to help Vikings lose, 1st 15-1 team to miss SB, 1987 Darren Nelson drop at goaline to tie game late in NFCCG, 1970s (including 1969 seaaon) lost 4 SBs in 7 years, 1975 Divisional rd Hail Mary with no call pushoff to lose (considered best Vikings team). In the past month a Vikings draft pick dies by getting hit by a drunk driver. Their star olineman died from heat stroke in '01. They've had multiple tragic deaths. Wolves: lose 7 straight 1st rd playoff series, followed by 14 year playoff drought. 4 playoff series wins in 35 years, plus top 5 worst winning % in all of sports. Twins: lose record 18 straight playoff games, no playoff series wins for 21 years, Phil Cuzzy "foul ball" call against Yankees in ALDS. Wild/North Stars: 49 seasons with no Stanley Cup win, and only 2 appearances (most recent was 33 years ago), Wild have only 4 playoff series wins in 23 years, last was 9 years ago, cap hell for years due to punitive NHL penalties, good years happened to be dyring Chicago dynasty, Derek Boogaard tragic OD death while still living in MN. Tldr: you have no idea what you're talking saying nothing catastrophic happens to Minnesota teams. There is no US sports market with a longer championship appearance drought (cululative), and there's no worse place to be a sports fan.

@@axe2grind244 Nothing catastrophic????? Vikings: 4 super bowl losses in 10 years. Followed by 5 NFC championship game losses, two of which (98 and 09) are some of the most painful playoff losses of any team in league history. The love boat scandal. Blair Walsh miss. Missing the playoffs on a hail Mary. The Herschel Walker trade. Hockey: Losing your team to relocation from the state of hockey to Texas of all places, after which said team wins the cup. Getting a new franchise which has made it past the second round once. Signing two of the worst contracts in the league that gut the teams future for 15 years. How is that "nothing catastrophic"? Buffalo has had catastrophic things as well, but I would rate the suffering in these two sports roughly equal.

Great observation

Phil Conners getting stuck in Groundhog Day - Bettman

the War of 1812 - Bettman

The hinge on the door that just doesn't wanna stop squeaking - Bettman

Missing the one sock that's part of the pair - Bettman

Spanish inquisision - Bettman

people outside of nashville dont realize this, but nashville is a hockey city first and foremost. the city’s embraced the preds wholeheartedly. to the point where local schools put up signs in support of the preds if they make the playoffs (especially 2016-17). the titans have never gotten that treatment, even though they came around the same time. BNA airport is loaded with preds merch and nothing titans. the city would be electric if the preds win the cup

@@diggsfather yep, it warms my heart to see a city as a whole embrace the team like they have. Going to see their games live is an amazing time usually too, I can't speak for anywhere else besides Columbus and that was fine, but the energy inside and outside the arena is so good! And let's be real, the titans have been nothing but disappointment ever since the super bowl in what, 99? god its been forever lmfao

Go preds!!!

As a long time Northern Californian Sharks fan, I remember some epic playoff battles against the Predators where the games were always tight and aI remember their fan base being rabid and awesome. Barry Trotz is fantastic too; I would have loved him as coach of the Sharks when the Sharks were good. Nashville, along with Vancouver, is that team in the West I often find myself rooting for when the Sharks are out. Also, I've been to Nashville, and it's a great place. We looked at Vandy with my daughter, walked the city, I got a cool t-shirt at the Ernest Tubb record store (since closed 😕), and best of all, we made it to the Station Inn on the drop-in bluegrass jam session night, drank beers, and ate popcorn and pizza with really nice, friendly southern people. We didn't make it to the Ryman because we only had one night (college tour road trip), but we will; that place is a bucket list item for me. I'll find a good show around the same time as a Sharks away game, and it will be amazing. I'll meet cool people for sure.

Oh yeah, Nashville and Vegas are examples on how to properly establish a Hockey team in a non-traditional hockey market from the start. (Of course, I'm not a fan of the Predators, since I'm not a fan of Nashville in general, but that comes with being born and raised in Knoxville, and I tried to become a Minnesota Wild fan which kinda gave me mixed results, especially when, for a time, I wasn't even planning on moving to Minnesota...)

But he calls him Wilson

It's personally signed, but Shannon keeps quiet about that.

It would be canceled and the cup would instead be awarded to the Knights lol

@@xSG199x Before the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs ended their World Series droughts, author and Red Sox fan Stephen King said that if the two teams ever met in the World Series, they would split the first six games and then the world would end before the seventh game could be played.

love to see that!!!

That would be kind of cool, but can you imagine the feelings of the fans for the losing team?

After 6 hard fought 1 goal games with each team winning 3 each, series headed to Game 7. Game 7 is once again a tight game with the score deadlock at 2-2 after 3 periods heading into OT. During intermission, World War III broke out, missiles and nukes are being fired around the globe and the world ends before OT started. Many years and a couple of generation later, the world rebuilt into a healthy society again, sports leagues are being re introduced again. After the NHL gets reintroduced, Gary Bettman IV (current Gary’s great grandson) is named commissioner and the league is healthy and running again. However, both Canucks and Sabres remained cup less year after year. The greatest debate among hockey fans would be who would’ve won the cup between the Canucks and Sabres the year the world almost ended.

He had possession of the puck before his foot entered the crease. It was a good goal. Also, that was the dumbest rule that they have had since I started watching hockey.

Don’t make me laugh

They honestly don’t look that bad. If they could make 1-2 big FA signings in next 2-3 years I wouldn’t put it past them to make some noise.

They have the cap space and picks to make some aggressive trades if they are hot this season

the hockey gods will approve, hockey doesn't belong in the desert

If they do pull an Avalanche/Ravens and quickly win the title, then I wouldn't blame Coyotes fans for immediately either putting Alex Meruelo on a hitlist or burning at least one of the three arenas they struggled in to the ground.

Have you not noticed it in the background?

@@csolivais1979 I usually watch on my phone, can't really make out anything in the background

@michaelyano6094 I watch on my phone as well, but I think it's easier for me because I knew it has been there. I didn't notice at first because I usually just listen, but about a week after he put it up I saw someone make a comment about it.

And Silovs is a solid backup if nothing else

Preach!!

Same bro, I still watch game 7 highlights and the celebration /chief pre game 7 speech all the time. It's my happy place lol

​​@@theramplocalthe Utree "Congrats Blues (2019)" clip after their cup win is another really satisfying video clip to watch.

As long as they stay the underdog and don't score first they'll be unstoppable! 😂 I've never seen a sports team give up so many games ahead by 2 scores

@@nickh4354 when the canucks scored with 6 seconds left to force OT, i knew immediately the preds were losing that game

@@nickh4354 Don't remind me :/

@@diggsfatherit still hurts

Vancouver

Jets will move to Hous, Portl, or another big major US market before ever winning a Cup, Canucks won't win a Cup with this current core I bet it might be Minny, out of the blue in the next 3 or 4 yrs, or SJ in the n xt 5 or 6 yrs, with the team their are assembling.

The sabres welcome you!

I agree with you on that. It’s just hard to see who would fall out for them to get in the playoffs

​@@JD200_Tampa, Detroit is still on the bubble at best (in my opinion), and the fact it'll likely (at least in my opinion) be 5/3 Atlantic/Metro split for the playoffs this season will help. I can't see the Rags or Carolina maintaining their momentum from last season after what has transpired this so far this off-season.

Especially Canuck fans cause the Millionaires aren't the Canucks... lol.

They’re on the bowl part too eh? So they’ll never get removed

They count, same city, same name, same colors. Ottawa has Cups. I don't know why THG doesn't count them

​@@dustinrhodes4793Not the same franchise, that's why. It's pretty simple.

I am hoping that ottawa gets a modern cup and breaks the canadian based team drought.

Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha !!! The Mild?? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha !!! Oh, too funny!!

@@michaellord9745 Currently they’re the “mild” however they have one of the best young D, some really solid young forwards, one of the best goaltending prospects of this century, and on top of that are already fairly competitive despite having Parise and Suter buyouts. I get it’s Minnesota so it’s hard to see them winning but of all these teams I think they have the best chance. Coming from a jets fan who’s biggest rival is the wild

with wallstedt in net and buium-faber as the top pairing on defense, they have a good shot. but they need a damn top line center. i don't know if that's rossi or khusnutdinov, and if not, they don't have it.

there were 10 teams.

thats because someone is going to pick up two future hall of famers in the fifth round and then the sixth round next year. All the scouts missed on them and some how a 140 point forward and a lock down d man standing at 6'3 with great skating ability was just, I don't know not gonna be good enough.

I also would be happy to see the Senators do well since I want to see Brady Tkachuck experience some success too after seeing how much he supported Matthew in the playoffs.

you're certainly drafting well, except you never take defensemen. but you'll be very happy with catton.

Ummm, maybe not.

At least one of Minnesota's previous women's hockey teams also won a championship. The roadblock appears to be men's sports.

Ya the curse only affects men's sports, the Lynx were a dynasty in the WNBA and that didn't do anything to help the men's teams lol

😂😂😂

Never happen. The Mild ought to be kicked out of the league. Loser franchise.

@@michaellord9745 i feel like you got the two franchises mixed up

@@MikeS29 The meteor would strike then, just like with a Vikings/Bills Super Bowl

@@michaellord9745woof, you seem fun at parties

The Pominville/Vanek Memorial StanleyCup

I know that they are in the same division but I mean the important teams

Same with seattle

@@Derberbeve And Texas and Florida teams

im sure Gary heard of that joke by now...if i was Gary id totally start a draft one year with ''hold on i gotta check the plan with THG'' then he takes his phone and laughs it off at some point