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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That's why I said ‘all BUT certain’. L.A. is the only counterexample in recent history. In any other case, a team with their regular-season record might have gone on a Cinderella run as far as the finals, but would not have won the Cup.
L.A. was different, largely because the team was put together to play the closest possible style to old-time goon hockey. That style flourishes in the playoffs when the referees put away their whistles, but not in the regular season. The Kings' management correctly guessed that the team would be good enough to qualify for the post-season even with the refs calling the rules, and strong enough to muscle their way past all opposition when the rules were tossed out.
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Well, define what period counts as "your team winning multiple cups"
There aren't that many examples of teams that won multiple cups with more or less the same or similar makeup, so you absolutely cannot say "all but certain" when one of the best examples of a team winning multiple cups in recent history was not a regular season powerhouse.