The Red Wings experienced early success in the 1930s, led by coach and eventual general manager Jack Adams. ^ C. The January 31 (a Saturday) game was tied 22 at midnight and the Mayor of Westmount refused to allow play to continue on Sunday. The Lord Stanley's Cup has been in existence for over 130 years. The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals. Wayne Gretzky. Thats unheard of today. Wayne Gretzky is a former professional hockey player who played 20 seasons in the NHL. The Montreal Canadians are the only team to have won 5 Stanley Cups in a row, and they did this between 1956 and 1960, which is one of the most dominant title runs by any team in professional sports. And with each team allowed to dress 20 players (per the Oilers), that makes 80 players hungry for that title. The right winger was a part of a Canadiens team that won four in a row from 1976 to 1979. Hodge is the only other player to have won three consecutive Cups in a row, all with Toronto; he did so from 1930 to 1932. And pack your bags because were going to be here for a while. With four championships each, the New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers dominated the decade. In the 100+ years since then, the team has found more success on the ice than any other. Savard did his job defending well. NHL.coms Stu Hackel stated Cournoyers nickname was Roadrunner. They won the 2020 Stanley Cup in the Toronto bubble, then repeated the feat in 2021. There have been hockey teams named in his honor; the Canadiens American Hockey League affiliate will be renamed the Laval Rocket when it moves from St. Johns, Newfoundland to north of Montreal for the 2017-18 seasonRichards impact on hockey and on Quebec society has been the subject of university study and theses. Those 23 Stanley Cups are definitely the most for any team in the history of the NHL. The Montreal Canadiens dominated the original six league and continued winning Stanley Cup championships throughout the early expansion years. NHL.coms. Joe Rivera is a senior content producer at The Sporting News and teaches Multimedia Sports Reporting at his alma mater, Rutgers University. But I never said it to anybody. The Montreal Canadiens specifically. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge because he had expected Emmett Quinn, president of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. Wayne Gretzky won 4 Stanley Cups. So is another one (1973). All in the sixties. In 1981, their best season, the team finished fifth with 44 points and was the best they had ever achieved. In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions along the CanadaUnited States border forced the league to temporarily realign the teams into four regional divisions with no conferences, and hold a divisional-based playoff format: the four divisional playoff champions advanced to the Stanley Cup Semifinals, and the winners of those series moved on to the Finals. Denney is actually tied for this 25th slot. Here is a look at the top 25 NHL players who have won the most Stanley Cups in NHL history (as of 2021). The Rangers finished first in the league with 102 points, and they won their first Stanley Cup in their inaugural season. championship in . The Islanders great scored 1,425 points in 1,279 games, earning him the Calder, King Clancy, Art Ross, Hart, and Conn Smythe trophies. Moore, the left winger, was a part of this incredible run and also won another with the team in 1953. To defend your title takes a team, it takes scoring, it takes determination and a collective effort to be great, it takesdefense. They also won the most in a row: five between 1955-56 and 1959-60. Henri Richard, also known as the Pocket Rocket, won 11 Stanley Cup titles as a member of the Montreal Canadiens, beginning in 1955 and ending in 1972 and 1973. They also hold the record for most Stanley Cup appearances with 35. [3], In 1908, the Allan Cup was introduced as the trophy for Canada's amateurs, as the Stanley Cup became a symbol of professional hockey supremacy.[4]. Legend: SC = successful Stanley Cup challenge or defense of championship (win); UC = unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge or defense of championship (loss); Years in bold denote a Stanley Cup win. Alright, we were able to go to Michigan. Lieberman is also the only person to win four gold medals at a single world championship. At The Buzzer, or ATB is the place for those who love sports, life, family, community, and so much more. The fact is, though, they've never done so and it's unlikely to happen now. That would be six total Stanley Cups at that as Lowe shares the exact same Stanley Cup wins with the exact same teams during the exact same years as Messier. He also earned four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers (1984-85, 1987-88) and was named the NHL's MVP nine (!) It's worth mentioning here that no player has won five or more straight Cups in the modern era (since 1917). 2015 Hall of Fame inductee Phil Housley is still ranked second in all-time points (1,232) and third in most games played (1,495) among American-born NHL players, yet he has never won a Stanley Cup . The Toronto Maple Leaf won three Stanley Cup titles during the 1960s. Although Kevin Loves got NBA titles to his time, Kevin Lowes got Stanley Cups to his name. He went on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the best player on the ice during the championship series against New Jersey. The right winger a part of this historic Montreal Canadiens team was Geoffrion. He jumps into the holes and is unchecked as the late man on the rush and that (t)he only thing the old footage cant show is the striking red hair on top of his head, matching the red sweater he wore in the first part of his remarkable career. Has Any Player Won 4 Stanley Cups In A Row? Team Midseason Dead Space is any space that was traded from opening night to the trade deadline, while Team Summer Dead Space is from whenever the Stanley Cup was awarded until final rosters are due. Unfortunately for Canadian fans waiting to bring Lord Stanley's Cup back across the border, it'll be another year without a Canadian team hoisting the trophy. Serge Savard, the first defenseman to win the Conn Smythe Award, is regarded as the father of the award. When did the Habs win 5 Cups in a row? The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. Mahovlich was with those three Montreal Canadiens during the 1971 and 1973 Stanley Cups. Gilbert played for the Islanders during their inaugural season in 1972-73 before being traded to the Montreal Canadiens. During that era, The Canadiens were led offensively by Jean Beliveau and Dickie Moore. John Compton is the kind of guy that loves to compete. The others are Dickie Moore with Chicago from 1926 to 1928, Alex Delvecchio with Detroit in 1952 and 1953, and Charlie Hodge with Toronto in 1934 and 1935. Richard had more seasons, games, and cups than his older brother Maurice at the age of 18. He also won the Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991-92 and with the Detroit . Guy Lapointe helped the Canadiens get lots of points during his time suiting up with them and won the same cups as Robinson except for the 86 one. [30][31] A 2006 Ontario Superior Court case found that the trustees had gone against Lord Stanley's conditions in the 1947 agreement. In its first two seasons, the squad ended considerably below.500. From 1956 to 1973, the legendary "Pocket Rocket" won 11 Stanley Cups, all with the Montreal Canadiens. Lightning's Pat Maroon going for Stanley Cup hat trick: No NHL player has won three straight titles since multiple Islanders in the 1980s. There have been no four-peat winners in nearly 40 years, with either one team or multiple teams winning the Cup. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted. Since then, they have won more than 20 games five times. Moore was part of a Canadiens team that was excellent on the ice, winning cup after cup. Unless marked otherwise, teams played in the NHL exclusively at the time they competed for the Stanley Cup. "One seems crazy to me," Maroon said during Stanley Cup Media Day on Tuesday. Johnson was a defensemen on the same teams Moore played on. In this particular case, with teams facing off, vying for that Stanley Cup in this years playoffs, theres now four teams left in the conference finals: the Vegas Golden Knights, Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, and New York Islanders. In 1983, the Islanders won their fourth straight Cup, with multiple players on each of the previous four Cup-winning teams. In its first two seasons, the squad ended considerably below 500 points. Later in the year, Dave "Tiger" Williams was awarded the Norris Trophy after he led the league in scoring with 130 points. Canadiens St. Patricks Red Wings Blackhawks Bruins Penguins Oilers Islanders Rangers Lightning Avalanche Devils Senators Kings Flyers Maroons Metropolitans Ducks Hurricanes Capitals Flames Stars 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 23 13 11 6 6 5 5 4 4 . These teams play best-of-seven series until there is only one champion. In 1962 and 1963, he won it with the Maple Leafs. Here's the complete list of most wins, ranked by team. With 25 other players. Lemaire, per NHL.coms. And get this. They also won the most in a row: five between 1955-56 and 1959-60. Denis Brodeur led the New Jersey Devils to a Stanley Cup victory in 1994. Does AI and Chatbots have a place in Hockey? This time, its all Montreal Canadiens and Ralph Backstrom. Stanley Cup and Montreal Canadiens go hand-in-hand. The Islanders are now a part of the New York Rangers organization. That year, the Islanders defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in overtime of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. This time however, he didn't win the Conn Smythe Trophy - instead, Jonathan Quick from the Los Angeles Kings took home the award. Despite falling in the first round in each of the next two seasons, the Oilers advanced to the Finals in 1990 and 1991. The NHL champion has been crowned the Stanley Cup victor since 1927. That Tampa Bay Lightning are trying to write their name in NHL history with a third Stanley Cup in a row. During this series, Billy Smith scored six goals, a record that has never been broken or even come close to being broken. Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Henri Richard, and Bob Gainey, as well as future Hall of Famers Bob Gainey and Henri Richard, were among those who led the team. Hackel also mentioned that (t)he Canadiens were on their way to their 18th Stanley Cup championship, and the Roadrunner would finish the postseason with a playoff-record 15 goals and the Conn Smythe Trophy which, he said, was pretty nice to win after NHL President Clarence Campbell presented him with the hardware as postseason MVP. Professional clubs came to dominate the competition in the early years of the twentieth century, and in 1913 the two major professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA), forerunner of the NHL, and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other in an annual series for the Stanley Cup. The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (which later became known as theStanley Cup) was first awarded in1893to theMontreal Hockey Club, champions of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada. In the third game of the series, after losing the first two at home, Gretzky led the team on a dramatic comeback, and the team won in overtime. Despite finishing the season with a record of 33-49-8, the Islanders displayed promising signs and grew in popularity. 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