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Originally Posted by mikephoen
How about Chicago, Pittsburg and Colorado. Chicago has worse winters than Calgary, not to mention it's dirty and dangerous. Pittsburgh isn't exactly high on any great cities of the world list. Denver is about as close an anagram to Calgary as you can get. On a high prairie plane close to the mountains and far from the coasts. Similiar population as well.
Those three teams have 7 of the 18 cups won in the salary cap era.
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This is all confirmation bias. How many other teams were or had bottomed out in an effort to turnaround their franchise while these teams were winning? Lots of them.
Someone has to win the cup every year, and with that you can make up any narrative you want to explain the theory. But it doesn’t make it a robust theory.