LordNeverLose
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I believe to finish it all off we need a "Weakest team to not win cup" thread.
The Leafs
I believe to finish it all off we need a "Weakest team to not win cup" thread.
2011 Canucks but by the time they got to the final they pretty badly injured. By the time they got to game 7 they were a total shell of themselves. Not even sure their game 7 roster would have made it out of the first round.
Really nice hockey trivia. Funny thing is, he did play personally only against one of those teams.Funny coincidence, but the winner of the cup all three of those years was Patrick Roy.
They barely made it out of the 1st round as is.
86 Oilers
93 Penguins
2000 Blues
Alright, so now we've recently had:
Strongest team to not win cup thread
Strongest team to win cup thread
Weakest team to win cup thread
I believe to finish it all off we need a "Weakest team to not win cup" thread.
We never got to see playoff Hasek... first in 04-05 because of the lockout, then again in 05-06 because of the Olympics' Hasek injury
Up front: Heatley-Spezza-Alfredsson, one of the best lines in the last 20 years. Depth? Mike Fisher was a Selke nominee that year.
At the back: Prime Redden and Chara, both Norris caliber defensemen (Chara was #4 and Redden #5 in voting that year, probably negated some of eachother's votes, source)
In net: Dominik Hasek... nuff said.
They still managed to reach the SCF the next year without Hasek or Chara, and Redden rapidly declining.
In addition to the obvious ones like the '86 Oilers, '93 Pens, '96 Wings, '16 Caps, I'm gonna throw in a couple you may have forgotten about like the '09 Sharks who won the President's Trophy, had a complete team, just simply choked. Probably the best Sharks team of all-time, even better than the '16 team. They lost in the first round, and that's probably why they were forgotten.
Also a homer vote for the '04 Flyers. I can't believe some of you people assume Ottawa would have won if there was an 04-05 season. I was born in 1989, I've seen two Flyers teams make it to the SCF, but that '04 team was the best one I got to root for. The '04 ECF was the SCF that year.