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Originally Posted by SebC
Every time a new team wins the Cup, the "formula" changes. Regular season doesn't matter? Yes it does, this season is the anomaly. St. Louis showing it's good to go in hot? Historically cold teams have done just fine. A single playoffs is not an adequate sample size to discard the weight of history.
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This is it.
To win the Stanley Cup, you need to make the playoffs and hope randomness is with you. It helps if you have players who up their game during the playoffs. Or perhaps they just appear to up their game because randomness is with them.