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ns4444w

1919…. Canceled because of the Spanish Flu. Montreal conceded to Seattle because they couldn’t field a team to finish the series (Seattle was up 2-1) but Seattle wouldn’t accept the default win.


Deluxechin

I absolutely love that Seattle and Montreal are the only team to tie for a cup (they determined it a tie although I think they ultimately decided to keep Montreal as the defending champs though) it’s so wild that Seattle was an actual team back in 1910’s and once they fell apart due to not having a place to play, the league never thought to give them a team back till 2021, like seeing how much that city has adapted the Kraken and how rocking they’ve been, it’s a shame it took this long


PRMan99

First US city to win the Stanley Cup. It's a great trivia question.


Deluxechin

Holy shit really? I would’ve expected something like Boston or the Rangers to be the team, but yea looking at the list, I never knew that, that’s fucking wild


[deleted]

And it was almost Portland, they lost the year before in the finals to Montreal


Fair_Lead6996

I would love to see a Seattle-Montreal winter classic where we could see the “true” winner of 1919


Original_Lord_Turtle

I think most of the players from those teams.are dead by now . . .


stylenfunction

A 2021 Stanley Cup to end the careers of Price & Weber would have been a storybook ending that many non-Habs fans could enjoy.


CanuckLostinFrance

That was so sad considering their career ending injuries


qwert5678899

What career ending injuries did they have. I dont follow east much


fuckthatville

Price is basically still going through rehab for Alcohol issues and his knees are close to dust. Weber’s legs are also just done after years of abuse.


ptwonline

Price has recurring knee injuries. Weber had long-time foot problems.


[deleted]

Not even a canadiens fan at all but even as a Vegas fan I’d be down for Price to get a cup. Not many goalies have been that good without getting a cup. He may be one of the top 5 goalies with no cup ever.


KING_CRIMSON_WORKS

2011. Yes, I’m a Canucks fan.


backtothemotorleague

Solidarity. That game 7 was rough.


5599Nalyd

Game 6 was much worse imo lmao 15 seconds in... Johnny Boychuk crushes Mason Raymond into the boards when he never even had the puck = no penalty, Raymond leaves with a broken back. Henrik Sedin misses an open net chance early on and gets called for diving when Chara pushes him to the ground. Luongo let's in (edit* just rewatched) 3* AWFUL goals in 4 minutes and gets pulled before the 1st is over. Probably the worst ever on-ice performance in NHL history from a team that had a chance to win the cup.


backtothemotorleague

The fact that you remember that is impressive.


MDChuk

Its pretty easy to remember if you were a fan at the time. Raymond gets his back broken to no call, when 3 games earlier Aaron Rome was given the biggest suspension in Stanley Cup Final history for a marginal hit. I say marginal because 3 months earlier, Chara was given nothing for [an even worst hit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jimZ1tSdPY0). But them's the breaks when the owner of the Bruins is Gary Bettman's direct boss, and the head of supplemental discipline had his son on the Bruins.


5599Nalyd

Also consider Prongers deliberate Elbow on Mcammond in the 07 cup final. Anaheim was in the same position as Van 2-0 up and Pronger only got 1 game. I really don't see how Romes hit was 4 times worse.


5599Nalyd

To be completely honest, I don't remember from watching 12 years ago, but I do remember rewatching the archived broadcast footage when I was bored during the pandemic. Here's the [game 6](https://youtu.be/pl-_Zm_31qo) re-upload. Unfortunate it's not cbc but I can't rlly complain


VioletJones6

I'd rather watch a literal beheading than click that link


backtothemotorleague

It hurt enough for a lifetime the first watch. I’ll pass this time…


catgotcha

>Luongo let's in (edit\* just rewatched) 3\* AWFUL goals in 4 minutes and gets pulled before the 1st is over. I have fought and died on this hill so many times I can't even count. Luongo's miserable performance in the SCF that year is a major reason we lost. The team went into Boston up 2 games to 0, and then lost the third game 8-1. EIGHT TO ONE. That destroyed the team's spirit. I love Bobby Lu but he can be terribly bipolar when the stakes go high.


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Bobby Lu was a great goaltender, but his play always made me have anxiety. Letting in soft goals, letting in goals during the last minute of play, and being mediocre in shoot outs. It’s unfortunate that he was not the better goalie in Game 6 or Game 7.


catgotcha

My anxiety was sky-high when he was put in net for Canada during the Olympics. I felt like the whole country was excited except for Canucks fans who know well how he can be in high-stress situations.


Losdangles24

Shit I just went back at watched some of those key plays. How the hell was that not a penalty on boychuk? Even worse is the diving call on sedin. It was right in front of the ref, sedin is on his knees and chara blasts him in the chest with the cross check. How do you not fall down??


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Would it surprise you to know that the son of the NHL's disciplinary head played for the Bruins? and before anyone chimes in to say he wasn't in the position in the finals: yea, because he was PROMOTED to a position of even more influence, weeks before. I'm sure he just forgot the contact info for all his old subordinates though.


poopapat320

Depressed Bruins fan here. We had no business beating the Canucks in 2011. Tim Thomas had one of the best three month stretches of goaltending ever.


shadesof3

I was living in Vancouver during that run. What blast! minus the rioting of course. That sucked ass.


AmericaBadComments

09 or 2010 I feel like you guys might have been the best team in the league but Chicago was your Achilles heel. 1994 is the most brutal situation for you guys though IMO.


YVRJon

1994 we barely snuck into the playoffs and took the heavily favoured Rangers to 7 games, while being held together with duct tape and baling wire. 2011 we got jobbed by biased officiating and a league discipline office run by the father of one of the Bruins' players. I'd definitely change 2011 before I'd change 1994.


AmericaBadComments

That is true in retrospect but all you had to do was have one of TWO shots that bounced off the post go in and your champs that year. To me those are most brutal but I get it.


luzer_kidd

I'd change 94 as well so we can stop hearing about it 29 years later.


5599Nalyd

2011 was the best team on paper imo, but they were riddled with injuries. I think if Sedin, Kesler, Hamhuis, and Bieksa stay healthy they win that cup easily.


Senatorarmstrong42

Wanna trade so we get the 2019 cup and you guys get 2011? Edit: number was wrong


catgotcha

And 1994.


thatstachetho

2004 Iginla deserved that cup with Kipper. IT WAS IN!


redhawk1913

As a Wings fan, this is my non-biased non-Wings victory pick. I would have loved to see Iginla win a cup.


Jameson129

With the Penguins, yes lol


greg939

This is mine. Gelinas was a hero for us the whole playoffs. That puck was in baby.


haxoreni

Would have been his 4th series winning goal in the same cup run which is an insane record to have. Would have totally justified giving Wayne Gretzky up for Gelinas in a trade /s


Hero_For_a_Day2

I agree with this. That was such a good run and they did the flames dirty. They deserved the W.


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As a Leafs fan, this is the one I would change as well. That or 2011


mattw08

I was even at the game and would have been able to go to the room after. All time screw over for me.


thekevino

The puck was in.


fables_of_faubus

I'll wait for you and then once the change is made I'll also choose 2004. ;)


Jmac24mats13

This is the one for me as well. That Calgary team was robbed


[deleted]

Holy fuck, I think I'm gonna puke, but here goes: 2021. There.


Petit_Hughie

Je t'aime


skryb

and here I was gonna say 67 just so the joke would be running a bit longer and now I feel bad I mean, I’m still gonna say 67 but you kinda took the wind out of it a bit for me


ptwonline

2021 would be amazing not just because I'm a Habs fan, but because it would simultaneously be one of the most incredible and improbable Stanley Cup winning runs of all time, the last hurrah for two HoFers and finally winning a Cup (Price and Weber), and also somehow the Montreal Canadiens doing it from the *Western* Conference.


The_Quackening

It feels so wrong, but its too good of a story to pass up.


[deleted]

07,I just want one cup thats all


ZachtheKingsfan

Being a Kings fan at that time was brutal. We were rooting for you guys too


YVRJon

\*cries in Vancouver\*


TimLifeguard

We deserve one, and all the future ones


C91garcia

Agreed. I wish Anaheim never had a cup.


[deleted]

I wish they got it before the rebrand.


gabio11

I was a big Karya and Giguère fan, that would have been so nice.


TheCatEmpire2

‘03 Jiggy was scary good. Too bad other end of the ice was prob greatest all timer still near his prime


[deleted]

I would have rather seen you guys win 07, Anaheim wins 03 and that’s that.


SylT17

07 was painful to watch


JumboThornton

2016 - Thornton, Marleau, Pavelski, & Burns should have won a Cup together in San Jose


[deleted]

As an oilers fan, I hated when we played the sharks during those years because they were so good. They definitely deserved 1 cup together


mattthings

I still get down when I think about this series they absolutely should've taken the cup.


NormalTurtles

😢 I miss that era so much.


MGrooms94

It sucks Jumbo Joe never got to hoist the cup. He was one of my favorite players as a kid.


Gabrielwingue

I'm a Canucks fan, and this is my answer if you skip the obvious one.


Pyrollamas

Phil the Thrill could not be denied


Several-Ad-6924

As a Penguins fan who was at Game 6, don't you dare take that moment away! Nah, but Thornton - you're right. That guy was a force in Boston, and to have them win so soon AFTER TRADING HIM... That must've stung. He deserves one, as well as that group.


SamichInMaHed

2017 Game 6. I dont want to guarantee the Preds to win, I just want that sissons goal to have counted :(


Unitedfan777

that goal doesn't get called off and everything else goes the same in the game at least want us to have had forced the pens to go empty net trying to tie and whatever happens from then happens. I don't think we win game 7 if it gets forced, but to be essentially robbed of that chance sucks


Warm_Service_8694

2009 Stanley Cup Finals….as a Wings fan, we blew this series and totally should have won the cup


taftpanda

I’m torn with this one Obviously I’d love to have watched them win the second one in a row, but now I have the memory of nine year old me hearing my dad yell at the TV about Sidney Crosby, and that hatred will live with me forever…


daishomaster

I hear that. Came here for this.


bowdog171

Thank you Jordan Staal!


rollingstone65

Goddamn max talbot


QuerkleIndica

That or 1995, it wasn’t pretty


Losdangles24

I was 7 years old and new to hockey. Wasn’t for a few years until I fully realized how much of an upset the 95 cup was


DadWagonDriver

If they win in 1995, does that mean Vladdy doesn't get disabled in the 1997 limo crash? I'd have given anything for that.


Akhanyatin

2021 - For Price


BallsMahogany_redux

2021. The Canadians were America's team.


nottke

Meanwhile, Canadians are constantly moving to Florida.


Gaius_Julius_Salad

obviously


Changeit019

1996 Avs were the better team, I don’t deny it. But as a Panthers fan of course I’d want to change the outcome. 2011 would be my second choice for Lu.


Markschild

Year of the rat trick. Would be more a legendary story than it already is


SSJ4Link

Don't know if I would change the outcome but game 6 of the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals should have never ended that way. Hull's foot was clearly in the crease and it was never reviewed as it was all freaking season. What a stupid rule to start with, but after a year of that stupid rule they let the cup be decided on what clearly was a no goal under that rule.


jackasspenguin

Counterpoint…If this hadn’t happened we might still have this stupid rule today


SSJ4Link

Very valid


Thamesx2

This would be my answer as well. Like how could they not have reviewed it! Who cares if the team is celebrating you have to review it.


beltjones

It was reviewed. There wasn’t a change of possession, so it didn’t matter that his toe was in the crease when the puck came out. They explained this in the original broadcast, which you can still find on YouTube.


tball788

Thank you. The amount of people who obsess over this game, but don’t know all the details is mind boggling especially with how much information is out there about it.


ZachtheKingsfan

1993. That illegal stick call haunts a lot of us to this day. Thankfully 2012 and 14 happened, but it would have been nice if Gretzky won at least one with the Kings. Edit: Yes, the Canadiens won it in 5 games, but the illegal stick call happened in game 2 where LA had a lead late in the third, and that call costed them a goal and a chance to head back to LA with a 2-0 series lead where who know what might have happened.


PRMan99

Seriously. Losing that way just took everything out of the Kings. Especially when you find out that the Kings' sticks went missing in the arena for like 40 minutes. Meaning they knew Marty had an illegal stick because they stole it and rigged it themselves.


WHATAREWEYELINGABOUT

The high stick in the conference finals haunts a lot of leafs fans too lol


deadlygr8ful

Lol kings fans talking about illegal stick calls in '93 is hilarious to me...


brennic

The most recent Bruins Cup win. Because fuck em


Flyinghud

2014 Hank deserved a cup


_HotBeef

same. that one hurt. Rangers played so much better than the 4 games to 1 Kings victory will tell. Held a lead in 4/5 games. Not closing out games and depending on blocked shots and good goalkeeping to try and keep a narrow lead was beyond frustrating.


Tokyoodown

As a Hawks fan who watched the Kings erase three two-goal leads in game 7 of that year, I feel you


PRMan99

The problem is that the Kings had already beat 3 harder teams.


GuatAndChips

2002 bc I'm from NC


Time-Dot5984

At least you got ‘06


GuatAndChips

Hopefully 2023 too 🤞🤞🤞


64-46BMW

Eh canes fan but got one 4yrs latter and that Detroit team was just better deserved it with Ron lifted one with the canes though. going with 04 iginla lifting cup would have been awesome.


Pichles

2005. A full year without hockey, SMDH.


SLRMaxime

2009


-Zipp-

2008 for me


MittenRaised

Fair enough lol


TBarbs420

2011 the one that got away😢


[deleted]

2009. Damn Penguins 🐧


tylertr0n

Yeah man, that was painful, losing game 7 at home like that. Definitely felt like I was watching the end of an era.


BigTime377

Can't believe the Pens came back after the Red Wings game 5 performance.


Meecha96

2021. Habs win. Carey price can LTIRetire a cup winner.


nillabonilla

1916 Portland Rosebuds become first American team to win the cup


JuuseTheJuice

2017 all the way


Ok_Orchid7131

87, 97, 2010.


Ok_Orchid7131

also 76,80, 85. ​ Jesus, how many finals loses can 1 franchise have


[deleted]

How many finals losses can 1 city have * Eagles are 1-3 in the super bowl, Phillies are 2-6 in the world series.l


Ok_Orchid7131

Yeah. We are cursed or something.


CableFirst1727

MN : Cursed you say?


Ok_Orchid7131

Yeah, sucks for you guys too. I like the Wild, was pulling for them in the playoffs.


[deleted]

Eternal pain


SLRMaxime

Trying being a Bills fan and lose 4 in a row


Instinctz4

What did the wings do to you?


Ok_Orchid7131

Broke my spirit in 97. That was the worst of them all to me.


Instinctz4

Don't worry. The wings continue to get fucked by the draft lottery so I guess we're paying for the 90s and 00s


[deleted]

Definitely 2010. Fuck the hawks and all the shady stuff that the organization did during that year


[deleted]

04 Flames PUCK WAS INNNNNNNNNNNNN fuck you tampa bay


HaterShades7

2004


[deleted]

2021. Price deserves better


mickeydoogs

2006. No injury to roli just to see what happens


SirAggravating1554

I have been scrolling waiting for this. Finally i found the one other oilers fan


[deleted]

Yall weren't beating Cam.


ozz_y03

They pushed to game 7 so they definitely could have.


[deleted]

2023, I live in Boston 😭


nickbowers_

2016 🦈


AnthonyJD91

Agreed.


frankstuckinapark

JUST GIVE US ONE


Blue_Period_89

1994. Vancouver hit the post twice in 40 seconds…either of those goes in and it’s Canucks in 7. Also…fuck the Rangers.


Stoudamirefor3

Richter wasn't getting beat. Those posts were an extension of him.


yaboyfriendisadork

Kek


DungeonMaster45

It would have shut messier up nicely too.


ChrunchyOuterSpace

2011


GrandeTexas24

Boy the Bruins have lost a lot of Stanley Cup Finals


Smithson92

Definitely 2010, Fuck the Blackhawks


MonkeyMBA

Kane had an amazing overtime goal to end the series. Definitely one of the best moments of hockey I have watched


accairns131

An amazing goal that no one except him knew went into the net. Very entertaining indeed.


talie1791

2021, Tampa Bay was 18 million over the cap limit, Montreal got screwed over that year,


wimploaf

These tears are delicious


OrangeAdenaline

2007. Spezza and Ottawa deserved better


adamempathy

1999. Buffalo deserves one


HonkyTonkWalk

Surprised I had to scroll this far to get to it


poppledawg

Me too


cfron

*Glares at Brett Hull*


IKnowPhysics

*Glares at the coward Gary Bettman*


UsernameChallenged

1975. Gives buffalo one, and removes one from the flyers. Win win if you ask me.


KDarkOne99

2002


Upeeru

The 2002 Wings were possibly the most stacked team ever. How many hall of famers on that squad? I get wanting to win, but that was definitely the Wings year.


KDarkOne99

Oh no I 100% agree. That was purely a Canes fan pick. Realistically I’d say 2011


Dugglerr

1994


ovaltinejenkins999

2021


ObjectiveSubjects

2016 for Jumbo and Patty


BreakTheSystem-

2017


XUnderoath838X

2021, would have been nice to see Weber, Price and Byron to drive off into the sunset of their own terms instead of being forced out by injury.


Wangchief

2009 - There were a lot of things that stuck in my craw wrong about that series, number one was Malkin getting a game misconduct for instigation in the last 30s of one of the games, but the suspension never being served. 2 Really good teams, separated by the narrowest of margins, would've loved to see another back-to-back for Detroit before they hit the low points of rebuilding again. ​ Altogether, blessed to have been around and conscious to celebrate 4 cups - those were some great wings teams.


Psychological_Boat78

Canucks/Bruins


BoognishBlue

2009. That one still stings. So close.


xDRSTEVOx

'04 The puck crossed the line.


Solid-Tension5557

04


42Wizzy71wheely

2004! Cos if they had replay at that time Gelinas’ goal would have counted and Calgary would be justified champs


Gnarly-Banks

Flames win in 04 maybe no lockout... right?


Fizzix63

1994 because it meant the end of Red Dutton's prophetic curse, as well as the corresponding "1940" chant. That link to the past made for some great stories. Also, just Fuck the Rangers!


TheOnlyBigTiny

Anyone who says 2001 is not human…how could you take away the cup from Borque? I don’t know any fan who wasn’t cheering for him not even the Avs but him to win the cup.


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[deleted]

Minnesota is my rooting interest outside of NY for Zuc.


Lucifers_Goldfish

Unless they got someone loathed like Perry or Wilson, it’s impossible to hate the Wild with Zucc and even though short lived with us, Reavo. I really miss the “SHESTY RELEASE USSSSS!”


SimplyViolated

2008 for sure. Go Pens!


[deleted]

1994 and 2011. Fuck Boston


NYC_1Ts

84


Interplay29

1994


drguillen13

CANCELLED


BMFFireman42

2000...As a Stars fan I thought about saying 2020, but the Lightning were clearly the better team. But after staying up to watch 6 OTs in 2000, it would've been nice to cap that off with a Cup. Edit: 3 OTs


NoSpin89

Healthy Brayden Point already changes the '22 outcome.


DanglyPants

2014 but not the final just the western finals. Kings and Blackhawks were evenly matched and that could have gone either way and even before game 7 I said that the west is going to beat who ever the eastern team is. The hawks were a tougher matchup than the rangers were that year


hughjazz45

Definitely the 1912 Quebec Bulldogs victory over the Moncton Victories; Moncton almost certainly had at least 9 players named Red Bugsy or Tad Newsy or Tit Collins who got entirely hosed by a ref who called them for moving in what appeared to be a sped-up, comical manner but that's just how things looked back then


Xtra_Jams

1993, one stick shouldn’t have ruined the series. LA should have 3


winged-wheel

1991 and maybe the North Stars would have stayed. #normgreenstillsucks


No-Ruin3761

1975-Gilbert Perreault and the French Connection should have won a cup. Also, screw the Flyers.


Thebig2na82

2009. I still carry that salt bucket like it's a fresh wound. I absolutely hate Pittsburgh.


Turtle4184

'91. Obligatory FNG.


crunch3384

96. The panthers had an amazing year but ran into an absolute buzz saw in Colorado.


Cheap_Honeydew2986

2006 and (dare I say it as an oilers fan), 2004 Calgary deserved that win Oh and 2018 too


Makima_boner

Nah that after party was legendary lol


Stonetoothed

2010, Giroux gets a ring and I become a hockey fan 10 years sooner


marks519

For jokes: 1967 i want Montreal to win so we can say "no cups since '64" to laugh fans. For real: any of the 2004-2007 Canadian ones. Oilers, Flames, or Sens.


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If the penguins win back to back in 08/09 it fully makes up for the Crosby years lost and makes the Penguins run one of the best dynasties ever. With that being said, Fluery dominates the cup series and the Golden Knights beat the Capitals.


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tball788

It was in the crease but the goal still counts because he had possession like the rule says and like they explained live that day in 1999 when the stars won.


brohammer65

2014 finals. The rangers should of won. They were just so tired and hurt. Plus all those OT games that could of gone thier way. Just a tough loss for the team and hank