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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
neither can gullfloss.
sure they have the potential, as you say. I won't argue that.
I just disagreed with him saying they are stanley cup contenders.
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This got me thinking. How likely is it that a team could vault from 84 points the year before to winning the Stanley Cup?
I looked at every season since the lockout of 2005 and the worst prior year record of a team winning the Stanley Cup was the Bruins with 91. Three SC champions had 98 points the year before and the rest were over a hundred.
Personally I need to see some results on the ice before I'd declare any team a SC contender and I don't have the Flames in that bracket.
But if you're looking for hope, the Carolina Hurricanes went from 76 points to SC champions. The catch is that was the longest off season in NHL history. But considering this team has a whole lot of Carolina sprinkled throughout, maybe there's some magic in there.