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Bryan Heyward had an interesting stat on the Inside Hockey Ducks radio show.

Since 1995, only 2 teams have won the Cup that didn't finish in the top 2 of their conference; The Devils in 95 and the Wings in 97.

Since then, every single Cup winner has won their conference or was a runner-up.

I guess the regular season does mean something after-all.

Go Wings!

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Bryan Heyward had an interesting stat on the Inside Hockey Ducks radio show.

Since 1995, only 2 teams have won the Cup that didn't finish in the top 2 of their conference; The Devils in 95 and the Wings in 97.

Since then, every single Cup winner has won their conference or was a runner-up.

I guess the regular season does mean something after-all.

Go Wings!

Sure, but Montreal wins the Cups nearly twice as much as the nearest franchise (Toronto with 13).

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Bryan Heyward had an interesting stat on the Inside Hockey Ducks radio show.

Since 1995, only 2 teams have won the Cup that didn't finish in the top 2 of their conference; The Devils in 95 and the Wings in 97.

Since then, every single Cup winner has won their conference or was a runner-up.

I guess the regular season does mean something after-all.

Go Wings!

Hard to believe that this includes Tampa Bay and Carolina. It's not difficult to win the Southeast, but they've also had to be better than at least one other division winner.

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Sure, but Montreal wins the Cups nearly twice as much as the nearest franchise (Toronto with 13).

Montreal won the majorty of their Cups when there were only 6 teams in the entire NHL.

Since then, it's been a downhill slide. (For the most part.)

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Montreal won the majorty of their Cups when there were only 6 teams in the entire NHL.

Since then, it's been a downhill slide. (For the most part.)

Of the 23 Stanley Cups won by Montreal:

10 Cups have been won in 6-club NHL, but

13 Cups have been won in non 6-club NHL.

I looked up "downhill slide" and got references to Chicago and Toronto

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Montreal won the majorty of their Cups when there were only 6 teams in the entire NHL.

Since then, it's been a downhill slide. (For the most part.)

I think you need to do a little research.

Post 1967 expansion cups:

Montreal - 10

Edmonton - 5

NYI - 4

Detroit - 4

NJ - 3

No one else has more than 2

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As usual with stats, it all depends on how you look at it: the Habs do have 10 Cups since '67, but only 2 since 1980. Don't know if I'd call that a downhill slide, but now they are in even competition with the rest of the league.

On another note - it might be interesting to look at Division winners and the Cup...cannot find that easily, but I bet non-division winners rarely if ever win....

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Hard to believe that this includes Tampa Bay and Carolina. It's not difficult to win the Southeast, but they've also had to be better than at least one other division winner.

2004- Tampa Bay finished second overall with 106 points, behind only Detroit's 109 points.

2006- Carolina finished fourth overall with 112 points behind Detroit's 124, Ottawa's 113, and Dallas' 112. Dallas had 53 wins to Carolina's 52.

Not only were they both better than at least one other Eastern division winner, but neither TB nor Carolina had to play a series without home ice advantage.

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As usual with stats, it all depends on how you look at it: the Habs do have 10 Cups since '67, but only 2 since 1980. Don't know if I'd call that a downhill slide, but now they are in even competition with the rest of the league.

On another note - it might be interesting to look at Division winners and the Cup...cannot find that easily, but I bet non-division winners rarely if ever win....

1990 EDM 2nd

1991 PIT 1st

1992 PIT 3rd

1993 MON 3rd

1994 NYR 1st

1995 NJ 3rd

1996 COL 1st

1997 DET 2nd

1998 DET 2nd

1999 DAL 1st

2000 NJ 2nd

2001 COL 1st

2002 DET 1st

2003 NJ 1st

2004 TB 1st

2005 NONE

2006 CAR 1st

2007 ANA 1st

2008 DET 1st

Started out finishing 3rd in division was the way to go. But, that stopped with NJ in '95. All but 3 years since, have come from division winners (2 of the 3 being the Wings).

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interesting stat here too

100% of all cup winners finished top 8 in their conference... Never would have known that before i looked it up...

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Interesting and useless stat.

Did Carolina not finish third in the conference when they won?

That stat is the furthest thing from useless. If anything, its very helpful in narrowing down a winner to the top 2 per conference. Granted, most of us probably would've assumed this but its still telling.

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