Teams typically compete for cups roughly 10 years after their stars were drafted in the cap era. Pittsburgh and Chicago winning in 9 and 10 is a bit of an outlier. Chicago had a strong core around Toews and Kane so they won their next 2 cups 6 and 8 years after Kane. The next 2 cups for the pens came 11-12 years after Crosby. Caps got theirs 14 years after Ovie. The kings won their first 9 years after Brown/Richards/Carter and their second 9 years after Kopitar. The avs won 9 years after MacKinnon. The lightning won 11 years after Hedmen and 9-10 years after Kucherov. Panthers won 11 years after Barkov and 10 years after Ekblad/Bennett/Reinhart. Oilers made the finals 10 years after Drai and 9 after McDavid.
If we are hoping for flames contender we should be targeting a mid 30’s cup run.
Those teams had some runs before their final but it shows typically those late 20’s are the years these teams are pushing.
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