Past Stanley Cup Champions

In the NHL the teams fight every single year for one thing, and that one thing is to win the Stanley Cup. In order to win the Stanley Cup, teams need to first qualify for the playoffs. Only the top eight teams from each conference move onto the NHL playoffs every year with all of the division leaders automatically finishing atop of the division. Every round of the playoffs is a 7 game series which is broken down as followed. The higher ranked team will have home advantage which means that the first two games are played at their home rink. The next two games of the series are played at the other team’s arena. Then if the series is still being played the team rotate with one home game apiece. This means that if the series goes to game 7 the home team will have the home ice edge.

We’re going to look at the past Stanley Cup champions now starting with the team who has won the most amount of Stanley Cups. This list only consists of teams that are still playing in the NHL betting lines today only.

Montreal Canadiens – 24 Stanley Cup Championships
Toronto Maple Leafs – 13 Stanley Cup Championships
Detroit Red Wings – 11 Stanley Cup Championships
Boston Bruins – 5 Stanley Cup Championships
Edmonton Oilers – 5 Stanley Cup Championships
New York Islanders – 4 Stanley Cup Championships
New York Rangers – 4 Stanley Cup Championships
Chicago Blackhawks – 3 Stanley Cup Championships
New Jersey Devils – 3 Stanley Cup Championships
Pittsburgh Penguins – 3 Stanley Cup Championships
Colorado Avalanche – 2 Stanley Cup Championships
Philadelphia Flyers – 2 Stanley Cup Championships
Anaheim Ducks – 1 Stanley Cup Championship
Calgary Flames – 1 Stanley Cup Championship
Carolina Hurricanes – 1 Stanley Cup Championship
Dallas Stars – 1 Stanley Cup Championship
Tampa Bay Lightning – 1 Stanley Cup Championship

As you can see there are still quite a few teams who haven’t even been able to win one Stanley Cup yet. This is understandable for some of the teams who didn’t enter the league in 1995-2000, but some of the older teams have also had no luck in the playoffs.

Over the past ten years of NHL betting, we have been seeing a lot more different teams begin winning the Stanley Cup which has been great for viewership. Nothing is worse then watching a sport where there is no competition, but that’s clearly not the case for the NHL. The playoffs run for a couple months before ending in June with the Stanley Cup. After the Stanley Cup is over the season is over and there is no more hockey until the next season begins the following year.

The Canadiens hold the top spot for the most Stanley Cups, but that is because they won a lot of them when there were only 6 teams in the league. They haven’t been able to win a Cup for awhile, and the same goes for the Maple Leafs as well who sit in second place. Both teams have struggled the past few decades and haven’t been able to add to their totals.