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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 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 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 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 team's championship season in 1992–93 marked the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise, having earned 24 championships, with 23 victories since the founding of the NHL, and 22 since 1927, when NHL teams became the only ones to compete for the ...
1917–18 Toronto Hockey Club season; 1919–20 Ottawa Senators season; 1920–21 Ottawa Senators season; 1921–22 Toronto St. Patricks season; 1922–23 Ottawa Senators season; 1923–24 Montreal Canadiens season; 1925–26 Montreal Maroons season; 1926–27 Ottawa Senators season; 1927–28 New York Rangers season; 1928–29 Boston Bruins season
The 2021 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2020–21 season and the culmination of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Montreal Canadiens and the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning .