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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 following is a list of the all-time records for each of the 32 active National Hockey League (NHL) teams, beginning with the first NHL season , with regular season stats accurate as of the end of all games on October 26, 2023, and playoff stats accurate as of the end of the 2020–21 NHL season and 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. [1] Teams are ...
Stanley Cup: 1893: Awarded to the NHL playoff champion. Previously it was a challenge cup (1893–1914) and then an interleague championship trophy (1915–26). Named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the 6th Governor General of Canada, who donated the original cup. [6] Florida Panthers: Prince of Wales Trophy: 1925–26
Afterward, the Kings made the Cup Finals in 2012, and won the Stanley Cup against the Devils, which was the first championship as a franchise. [78] It was then followed by another Stanley Cup victory in 2014 against the Rangers. [79] The only other team to reach the Stanley Cup Finals more than once between 2009 and 2017 was the Boston Bruins.
It survived as the championship trophy of the NHL until the Western Hockey League, the successor to the PCHA, folded after the 1925–26 hockey season. This left the NHL as the only professional league that competed for the Stanley Cup. Thus starting in the 1926–27 season, the Stanley Cup became the championship trophy of the NHL.
Most Stanley Cups: 23, by the Montreal Canadiens (the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 24 times in total. Their first Stanley Cup championship came in 1916 as a member of the NHA) Oldest franchise(s) without a stanley cup: Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks, 52 seasons since inception in 1970–71 season; Most consecutive Stanley Cup wins ...
Most Stanley Cup wins as a player: Henri Richard, [e] 11; Most Stanley Cup wins as a non-player: Scotty Bowman, [f] 14; Most Stanley Cup wins, combined player or non-player: Jean Beliveau, [g] 17; Most different teams with Stanley Cup victory: Combined player/non-player: Al Arbour, [h] 4; Non-player: Tommy Gorman [i] and Scotty Bowman, [j] 4
The 1921 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver Millionaires. The Senators defeated Vancouver three games to two in the best-of-five-game series to become the first team to win back-to-back Cup championships since the 1912/ ...