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History of reverse sweeps in the Stanley cups finals?
The list of comebacks from 0-3 down in NHL playoffs (entirely, not just the Stanley Cup finals) is very short:
1942 Stanley Cup Finals (Leafs over Red Wings)
1975 quarterfinals (Islanders over ...
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What was the worst result for a president's trophy winner in the playoffs?
There have been eight NHL teams thus far to win the President's Trophy but be eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The worst Stanley Cup finish by a President's Trophy winner was ...
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What is the longest duration a team didn't register a shot on goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs?
I googled "NHL no shots in a period" and found this:
Penguins recover to defeat Predators in Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final (NHL website):
Pittsburgh did not have a shot on goal in the second ...
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What is the fewest number of shots for a winning team in a Stanley Cup Playoffs game?
Here are two examples of teams who won in the playoffs while registering 10 shots on goal
https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/199004090WSH.html
https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/...
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How many times in NHL history has a team *almost* come back from a 3-0 deficit in a playoff series?
Apparently I used the wrong search terms, because shortly after I posted the question I found the Wikipedia article on teams who overcame 3–0 series deficits, which includes unsuccessful comebacks as ...
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Bare minimum criteria to have name engraved on the Stanley cup
Correct. A player must play in the Stanley Cup Finals series or 41 regular season games to automatically qualify for engraving on the Stanley Cup. A team can petition for others to be included, but ...
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History of reverse sweeps in the Stanley cups finals?
The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs are the only team in the NHL history to make a comeback after being down 3-0 in the Stanley Cup Finals series. All other reverse sweeps were made in the first 3 rounds.
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Has the Stanley Cup playoffs games ever been held on neutral ice?
Sort of. No complete series in the modern game was played entirely at a neutral site, but some series had one or two games played at neutral sites.
The 1925 Stanley Cup Finals, for example, was ...
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Fastest power play goal in the history of the NHL
Adrian Kempe of the LA Kings broke the record on January 9, 2020. He scored 1 second (actually 0.9, since it was inside the last minute of the period and the clock was showing tenths) into the power ...
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Has any player on the Edmonton Oilers roster (16-17 season) played a postseason game as an Oiler before this season?
No. Eberle has the longest tenure with the Oilers with 7 seasons played, but as you mentioned before, it has been an eleven year hiatus.
With an eleven year drought, the only eligible members on the ...
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When was the last time a Canadian hockey team reached the third round of the Stanley Cup finals?
In the current format, reaching third round means playing in the conference finals.1 There is a Wikipedia article listing the NHL conference finals. You can see that in 2022 Edmonton Oilers
played in ...
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How many times the top 2 teams in the NHL have met in the playoffs?
Here are some such pairs (the team with most points - Presidents' Trophy winner - is listed first):
1983–84 - Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders (the met in the Stanley Cup Finals, Oilers won 4-1)...
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How many players in the 2018 Stanley Cup finals have won a finals game before?
Brooks Orpik playing for Washington Capitals won Stanley Cup in 2009 with Pittsburgh Penguins.
Vegas goaltender Marc-André Fleury won three Stanley Cups - also with Penguins - in 2009, 2016 and 2017. ...
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How many times NHL all top seeds have been eliminated in the first round?
According to the NHL themselves, it has never happened before the 2019 playoffs.
For the first time in NHL history, the top team from each conference and all division winners were eliminated in the ...
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How many times a team has won a playoffs series without scoring a power play goal?
Scraping off Hockey Reference, I found 61 instances where a team didn't score a Power Play Goal (PPG) since 1934. Hockey Reference only shows PPGs starting 1934, hence why the data starts from then. ...
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What are all the single game records broken in the 5OT game between Blue Jackets vs Lightning?
Here are some of the records that were broken, will update the answer if I find out more:
Most saves in a playoff game 1 :
85 by Joonas Korpisalo of CBJ (since shots started being tracked in 55-56 ...
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How many times has a team trailing by at least 3 goals won a Stanley Cup playoffs game?
Looking through old box scores, it happens fairly frequently - more than would be appropriate to list here. In 1982, for example, it happened twice in one series - LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers, the ...
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How many times has an NHL player scored in every game of a playoff series?
This has happened a bunch of times. 2008 conference semifinals, Johan Franzen had 9 goals against the Avs in four games (2, 3, 1, 3 each game). The record for goals in a series is held by Jari Kurri ...
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Fastest power play goal in the history of the NHL
Alex Ovechkin appears to have at least tied this record in looking at the Game Stats of the Caps' 6 to 0 win over the Canes on April 20, 2019. In P3 there is a penalty call at 10:12 and Ovie's PPG is ...
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Worst shot differentials for a winning NHL team in the playoffs
The worst shot differential by a team in a playoff win is -37, when the Chicago Black Hawks beat the Boston Bruins 6-4 on 4/11/1975, despite being outshot 19-56.
To find this, I first looked up the ...
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