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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I feel like this is often brushed off as romanticizing, but it's true.
LA won two cups, and finishing 6th and 8th in the West on their way.
Chicago won a cup finishing 3rd in the Central.
San Jose made the finals finishing 3rd in the Pacific.
New Jersey made the finals finishing 5th in the East (4th in the Atlantic).
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Neither LA or Chicago were cinderella teams in my eyes. They were both quality teams either coasting or hiccuping their way through the season, but nobody ever looked them as also-rans once the playoffs started.
The reality is Cinderella teams don't win Cups. They might make noise, but they pretty much never win the whole thing. Once in a while you get good teams who go through bad stretches that make them seem less potent (not unlike like the Pens), but in the end the cream pretty much always rises to the top. The 04 Flames/06 Oilers type teams almost never, if ever, win.