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Originally Posted by nik-
By the same team, with the same core.
One team doing it isn't a pattern or changing of legit chances.
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Sure, but in the same five years the Devils were 6th in the conference, the Rangers were 5th and the Sharks were 6th. So 3 of the 5 runners up came from the bottom half of their conference. And the Bruins were also the runners up at 4th, and the Blackhawks won a cup from 4th as well.
So 7 of the 10 teams to make the finals in the last 5 years were 4th seeds or worse. That looks like a lot of parity to me.