to me that goes to show they were never really a 'power' to begin with
it's not like some great teams that have just run in to a team they can't get past, for example the late 90's/Early 00's Red Wings won cups in 97/98/02, but lost to Colorado 3 out of 4 years in that span as well, could have easily been 4 or 5 cups
SJ was just a solid team that probably should have taken a risk to push it over the hump rather than sticking with the good but not great course
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