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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Sure - they're beatable - any team is. But the chances of anyone beating them this year is thin. Tampa is trending to be the eleventh best regular season team in the last 68 seasons.
I'm not saying the flames fold it up, but this isn't the season to go all in. In a more normal year, where the flames are a top 6 team and the field is closer, I'd say go for it. But this isn't a normal year.
Most dominant regular season NHL teams since 1950:
1 Montreal (1976-77) - 60-8-12 - Won Stanley Cup
2 Chicago (2012-13) - 34-6-5 - Won Stanley Cup
3 Montreal (1977-79) - 59-10-11 - Won Stanley Cup
4 Detroit (1995-96) - 62-13-7 - Lost to Avs in WCF
5 Montreal (1975-76) - 58-11-11 - Won Stanley Cup
6 Boston (1970-71) - 57-14-7 - Lost in round 1 (Hot Goalie - Ken Dryden)
7 Montreal (1972-73) 52-10-16 - Won Stanley Cup
8 Detroit (2005-06) - 58-16-8 - Lost in round 1 (Oilers)
9 Edmonton (1983-84) 57-18-5 - Won Stanley Cup
10 Edmonton (1985-86) 56-17-7 - Lost to Calgary
11 Tampa (2018-19) 55-16-11
Whats really interesting about this, is that of the four teams that didn't win the cup - three lost to a hated rival, suggesting that emotion was the factor pushing them over the top.
Montreal beat Boston
Avs beat Detroit
Calgary beat Edmonton
Does anyone hate tampa?
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Several of those teams were back when the playoffs were shorter, and there was huge discrepancies between the good and bad teams.
From the last 25 years, there are 3 teams on that list, and 2 of them didn't win the cup.
You are massively over-rating TB's likelihood of winning the Cup.