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The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
The 2021 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2020–21 season and the culmination of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Montreal Canadiens and the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning .
The top four teams in each division played each other with the winners of those games advancing to the divisional round. The four divisional playoff champions were then re-seeded by regular season points in the Stanley Cup Semifinals. The winners of the Semifinals played each other in the Stanley Cup Finals. 2022–present
The 1970–71 season, because of fan demand, brought forth the first inter-conference playoff match up outside of the Stanley Cup Finals since the pre-war expansion, which had the winner of the second-place versus fourth-place match up in one division take on the winner of the first- versus third-place match up in the other division for a berth ...
Won in second round vs. Philadelphia Flyers, 4–3 Lost in conference finals vs. Tampa Bay Lightning, 2–4 2020–21: 2020–21 — East 4th 56 32 17 — 7 71 156 128 19 11 8 54 53 Won in first round vs. Pittsburgh Penguins, 4–2 Won in second round vs. Boston Bruins, 4–2 Lost in Stanley Cup semifinals vs. Tampa Bay Lightning, 3–4 2021 ...
Won in conference finals, 4–3 (Lightning) Won in Stanley Cup Finals, 4–2 † 2016–17: 2016–17: Eastern‡ Metropolitan 2nd 82 50 21 — 11 111 282 234 25 16 9 77 57 Won in first round, 4–1 (Blue Jackets) Won in second round, 4–3 (Capitals) Won in conference finals, 4–3 (Senators) Won in Stanley Cup Finals, 4–2 † 2017–18
The Avalanche have reached three Stanley Cup Finals, winning all of them (1996, 2001, 2022). After winning the 1996 Stanley Cup, Colorado became the first NHL team and the second team in North American professional sports history to win a championship in the same season they moved to a new city.
The Stanley Cup Finals first employed the best-of-seven format in 1939. The league's semifinals also used the best-of-seven format beginning that same year, as well as the quarterfinal round that was added in 1968 .