No team has won a Cup without a player who had previously won a Cup since 1989.
Can a Stanley Cup winner be distilled into a repeatable recipe?
It’s a question I ask every year after the NHL Trade Deadline passes as we reassess the league’s power structure based on which players changed teams. Is there a set list of ingredients a contending team can seek out and sprinkle into one pot every season to ensure a deep playoff run?by studying the previous 10 Stanley Cup winners. The recipe consisted of seven characteristics that were most common among the champions. It wasn’t as simple as just being good at everything.
Using the same parameters, which NHL roster has just the right mix of championship material this season? So far in the series, we’ve examined team traits tied to tangible on-ice outcomes: Our champion profile includes at least one elite scorer, an elite goaltender, an above-average penalty kill and so on. Today, we venture into the world of the intangible. Technically, a Stanley Cup ring is as tangible as it gets. But its impact isn’t necessarily something you can literalize on the ice.
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