How many cups will Tampa win in the next 3 years?

[Mr Tadakichi]

aLL THE CUPS.

 

[MadLuke]

Using this (end of pre-season favorite vs actual winners):
Futures Odds of NHL Champions


In the 2000s, except for the Senators (and their windows were cut exceptionally by the lock out) no team made multiple apparition in the top 2 favorites without winning the cup eventually, occurrence in the top 2:

Wings	9
Penguins	7
Hawks	4
Avalanche	4
Ducks	2
Senators	2
capitals	2
Lightings	1
Canucks	1
Flyers	1
Stars	1
jets	1
Oilers	1
Bruins	1
Rangers	1

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

It is logic has having won the cup recently seem being a major factor in who get the lowest odd line, it is true that the favorite very rarely win it in a 30, now 31 team league in a high luck sport like hockey, but

1) the winner was almost always either a top 5 favorite or was one the year just before (2019 Blues, 2012 Kings, 2006 Canes, 2004 Lightings being the exceptions).
2) Top team for a long window like Tampa seem to still have a good % of chance of winning at least one at some point no ?

The Favorite winning a cup a giving year is quite unlikely, if they can stay the favorite 3-4 season in a row I feel it get quite likely, i.e. a team good enough to have 20% to win the cup 4 year's in a row would have 60% chance of winning at least one.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

I voted for 1.

I could see them winning 2 or 3 Presidents Trophies. They're the best team in the NHL.

The playoffs is more of a crapshoot.

What you meant to say is you don't understand why certain teams lost. That doesn't make it luck.

TB lost consecutive games twice all last regular season, yet lost all 4 playoff games. The odds of that happening naturally are very low. It's almost as if the regular season is different than the playoffs.

 

[Machinehead]

What you meant to say is you don't understand why certain teams lost. That doesn't make it luck.

TB lost consecutive games twice all last regular season, yet lost all 4 playoff games. The odds of that happening naturally are very low. It's almost as if the regular season is different than the playoffs.

Tampa had obvious weaknesses which I referred to way back in the regular season. I was one of the first people to say they weren't winning the Cup. I think their problems are fixable, though, and I don't buy into the notion that they're incapable of winning the Cup.

That said, you have your head in the sand if you don't think luck factors in over a (max) 28 game sample. You're also lying if you tell me you thought Tampa was getting swept.

 

[CupsOverCash]

TB has a lot to prove with winning the cup but they are still good playoff team even though they got swept last year. Im not even touching the poll lol!

 

[Machinehead]

Using this (end of pre-season favorite vs actual winners):
Futures Odds of NHL Champions


In the 2000s, except for the Senators (and their windows were cut exceptionally by the lock out) no team made multiple apparition in the top 2 favorites without winning the cup eventually, occurrence in the top 2:

Wings	9
Penguins	7
Hawks	4
Avalanche	4
Ducks	2
Senators	2
capitals	2
Lightings	1
Canucks	1
Flyers	1
Stars	1
jets	1
Oilers	1
Bruins	1
Rangers	1

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

It is logic has having won the cup recently seem being a major factor in who get the lowest odd line, it is true that the favorite very rarely win it in a 30, now 31 team league in a high luck sport like hockey, but

1) the winner was almost always either a top 5 favorite or was one the year just before (2019 Blues, 2012 Kings, 2006 Canes, 2004 Lightings being the exceptions).
2) Top team for a long window like Tampa seem to still have a good % of chance of winning at least one at some point no ?

The Favorite winning a cup a giving year is quite unlikely, if they can stay the favorite 3-4 season in a row I feel it get quite likely, i.e. a team good enough to have 20% to win the cup 4 year's in a row would have 60% chance of winning at least one.

An apparition is a ghost lol

 

[Master P]

Any Tampa fan that doesn't vote 3 is a coward

 

[Krewe]

What you meant to say is you don't understand why certain teams lost. That doesn't make it luck.

TB lost consecutive games twice all last regular season, yet lost all 4 playoff games. The odds of that happening naturally are very low. It's almost as if the regular season is different than the playoffs.

Yes we have never had good/deep runs in the playoffs. Just get swept year after year

 

[Hoek]

This poll is ridiculous. We're winning at least 6.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

It seems that most hockey fans either call the Lightning a team of chokers or a dominant force to be reckoned with.

The truth lies somewhere in between, but I wouldn't want to stand in the way of hyperbole.

You were literally both last season. The truth kind of lies in both statements.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

These losers aren't winning jack shit. The book is out on how to play them, Trotz exposed Cooper two years ago and I don't see anything changing given how this team is constructed.

 

[Machinehead]

These losers aren't winning jack ****. The book is out on how to play them, Trotz exposed Cooper two years ago and I don't see anything changing given how this team is constructed.

You might need to change Cooper if this is really the case. Easier than changing the team.

 

[Eat The Rich]

Zero.

 

[JoVel]

Six. Three Stanley Cups and more importantly, three Governor's Cups.

 

[thadd]

I don't bank on a team winning the cup until they've won a cup.

 

[M2Beezy]

17

Maybe re read the question pal

 

[CraigsList]

0.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

No team has the inside track winning the cup. Just sayin.

 

[hockeyguru]

my guess is 1.

 

[42]

1.5

 

[Mike Liut]

I dont think signing Maroon solves their problems. Their team will struggle in the playoffs against bigger, more physical teams.

 

[Mobiandi]

No one's afraid of them anymore after the Columbus fiasco

 

[Fugazy]

I think they'll get there at some point during this window.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

No team has the inside track winning the cup. Just sayin.

Maybe not on Lake Woebegone. Everywhere else there's a team with the best odds.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Maybe not on Lake Woebegone. Everywhere else there's a team with the best odds.

Nah. Odds are one thing, but if there was a team with the inside track, people would more accurately predict the cup winners before each season.