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The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
The last challenge, in 1914, was the inauguration of the first "World Series" of ice hockey, [4] a series between the Stanley Cup and league champion Toronto Hockey Club of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Victoria Aristocrats, champions of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). The series was pre-arranged between the two ...
To date, the 1993 Canadiens are the last Stanley Cup championship team to be composed solely of North American-born players, and the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup. The series is remembered for Kings defenceman Marty McSorley 's penalty late in the third period of game two for using an illegal stick, in what proved to be the turning ...
The 1992–93 Montreal Canadiens remain the most recent Canadian club to win the Stanley Cup. [2] Last time that all Canadian teams qualified for the playoffs: 1985–86; Last time that no Canadian teams qualified for the playoffs: 2015–16; Last all-Canadian first-round series: 2020–21 (Toronto vs. Montreal and Edmonton vs. Winnipeg)
The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". [1]
The Stanley Cup playoffs (French: Les séries éliminatoires de la Coupe Stanley) is the annual elimination tournament to determine the winner of the Stanley Cup, and the league champion of the National Hockey League (NHL). The four-round, best-of-seven tournament is held after the NHL's regular season. Eight teams from each of the league's two ...
The 1989 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1988–89 season, and the culmination of the 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Calgary Flames and the Montreal Canadiens , the top two teams during the regular season.
g The 1919 Stanley Cup Finals were suspended due to the 1918 flu pandemic. [7] h The NHL declared the Canadiens to be league champions in 1925 when the Hamilton Tigers refused to play in the NHL Finals due to a dispute over player salaries. [17] i From the 1926–27 season to the 1937–38 season, the Canadiens played in the Canadian Division. [98]