#Who played in the stanley cup finals last year full
“No one would fault them if the players let up,” said Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper, who is finishing his ninth full season with the Lightning, making him the longest-tenured coach in the NHL. If the Bolts do it again, they will have won a record 48 playoff games over three postseasons. Now, all four rounds are a grueling best-of-seven, and the surviving team has to win 16 games to capture the Cup. In 1980, the playoffs expanded to a best-of-five as the Islanders dominated the league. The first round of the NHL playoffs was a best-of-three series. It was a different game back when the Canadiens put together their dynasty. By the third year you’ve been hunted by every other team, and they’re building to try to beat you. “You go from the first year when it’s fresh and new. “There’s an accumulation of emotion and wear and tear that you deal with over time,” Kerr said Monday night before Golden State took a 3-2 lead over the Celtics in the best-of-seven series.
The Warriors had an opportunity to win their third in a row in 2019 but were defeated by the Toronto Raptors. Winning three in a row is “an accomplishment in any sport,” said NBA coach Steve Kerr, whose Golden State Warriors are on the brink of defeating Boston in the NBA Finals, which would give them their fourth title in eight seasons. No team has won even three in a row since the Isles’ run, although six times teams have won back-to-back Cups, including the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins twice. In contrast, the Lightning are trying to become the first team to win three consecutive Cups since the New York Islanders won four in a row from 1980-83, following the feat of the Montreal Canadiens from 1976-79. It’s been a long haul back to the Cup Final for the Avalanche, whose owner, Stan Kroenke, hopes to celebrate a second championship this year after his Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl in February. I just thought it was the right thing to do.” “Just a tremendous person, tremendous player. “He’s an icon of the game,” Sakic said about Bourque. And Sakic, who played his entire 21-season career with the Quebec Nordiques/Avalanche franchise, is now the general manager who built the current Western Conference-winning team.
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