All 4 Original Six teams based in the US did not qualify for the playoffs

[Fenway]

I am amazed that for the first time, the 4 USA-based Orginial Six teams did not qualify for the playoffs.

For 2025 I figured the New York Rangers to be a lock, Boston would sneak in and Detroit would also make it.

 

[HolyGhost]

US-based Original Six eliminated from playoffs for 1st time

The Original Six teams based in the United States have a rich history, combining to hoist the Stanley Cup 27 times.

www.sportsnet.ca

now this I find wild.

I would have thought they would have missed the playoffs together before

 

[daver]

Wow, you would have thought this wasn't possible during the O6 era.

 

[Gnashville]

Leafs may be only O6 team in playoffs.

 

[TageGod]

US-based Original Six eliminated from playoffs for 1st time

The Original Six teams based in the United States have a rich history, combining to hoist the Stanley Cup 27 times.

www.sportsnet.ca

now this I find wild.

I would have thought they would have missed the playoffs together before

Don't worry. bettman will get Boston and PIT picks 1 and 2.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Love to see it

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Throw in a non original six Pittsburgh, and that will be a first time for that too.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Also the first time that the four American O6 teams, Pittsburgh, and Seattle have failed to qualify in the same season.

 

[Summer Rose]

For the first time in Vegas Golden Knights history...

 

[EbonyRaptor]

I would just like to proudly say that my Hawks have held up their end of this proposition quite nicely over the last decade with the only blip in our exemplary record being the bastard Covid playoff format.

You're welcome.

 

[winnipegger]

All Canadian SCF incoming. Gary instantly retires.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

 

[VivaLasVegas]

What other sports league even talks in O6-type terms?

 

[NeelyWasAWarrior]

It was bound to happen what with all the expansion that has occurred.

 

[HisIceness]

Eh, shit happens.

Wasn't that long ago all the Canadian teams failed to qualify. And then two years ago first time since 2006 that Crosby and Ovechkin were not in the playoffs.

 

[SI90]

The Caw Faw as we say in New York

 

[kingsholygrail]

What other sports league even talks in O6-type terms?

The NFL, but not in the way that the NHL harps on it.

 

[jigglysquishy]

What other sports league even talks in O6-type terms?

The NHL is unique in even being able to do this. Having a 25 year period with no new teams or relocations.

The other three leagues had pretty major shakeups and relocations.

The third "continuous " NHL team is the Bruins from 1924. The fourth, fifth, and sixth are all in 1926.

The third continuous NBA team is the Pistons in 1957. You don't get the sixth team until 1963.

There's no Dodgers moving to LA equivalent in the NHL.

The NFL has more stability, but the Super Bowl coming late hurts a lot of the historical reverence.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

The NHL is unique in even being able to do this. Having a 25 year period with no new teams or relocations.

The other three leagues had pretty major shakeups and relocations.

The third "continuous " NHL team is the Bruins from 1924. The fourth, fifth, and sixth are all in 1926.

The third continuous NBA team is the Pistons in 1957. You don't get the sixth team until 1963.

There's no Dodgers moving to LA equivalent in the NHL.

The NFL has more stability, but the Super Bowl coming late hurts a lot of the historical reverence.

But I mean who really cares about this particular history, other than maybe the fans of those teams?

By comparison, the NFL doesn't waste its breath on the "original" teams prior to the 1966 AFL merger. By the 1980s, you never heard anything about it.

 

[Lshap]

But I mean who really cares about this particular history, other than maybe the fans of those teams?

By comparison, the NFL doesn't waste its breath on the "original" teams prior to the 1966 AFL merger. By the 1980s, you never heard anything about it.

Hockey fans care about this particular minutia. It's a history-focused sport, which is obvious when you look at the Stanley Cup.

Why would baseball fans care about tape-measure homeruns or the speed of fastballs? Those details are useless to the outcome of a game, but they're part of the lore.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Hockey fans care about this particular minutia. It's a history-focused sport, which is obvious when you look at the Stanley Cup.

Why would baseball fans care about tape-measure homeruns or the speed of fastballs? Those details are useless to the outcome of a game, but they're part of the lore.

More like a small number lf hockey fans help keep the O6 stuff alive, for ..... reasons. Outside of the O6 teams, most fans couldn't care less about it even if they know about it.

Personally, I think the O6 stuff is just more evidence of the NHL's huge inferiority complex to the other professional sports leagues. "We have tradition!" Ya, ok, whatever.

 

[Mr grumpy]

Throw in a non original six Pittsburgh, and that will be a first time for that too.

The 4 OGs have far more impact than the pens.

 

[Lshap]

More like a small number lf hockey fans help keep the O6 stuff alive, for ..... reasons. Outside of the O6 teams, most fans couldn't care less about it even if they know about it.

Personally, I think the O6 stuff is just more evidence of the NHL's huge inferiority complex to the other professional sports leagues. "We have tradition!" Ya, ok, whatever.

Unless you have actual data to back up that statement, sorry, but saying it's just a "Small number of fans" sounds like something you made up. Nothing wrong with you personally not caring about O6 teams, but the majority of long-time hockey fans do. Probably more so in Canada, but I admit that's just a guess.

 

[1989]

The 4 OGs have far more impact than the pens.

Imagine that, four teams having the collectively greater impact than one. I, too, went to college.

 

[Markster]

Big yawn. Apart from fans of those 6 teams, nobody really cares about the Original 6 thing.