Montreal Canadiens are the most successful Canadian franchise in the last 20 years

[TheNumber4]

Main takeaway. Leafs suck.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

I belive what you meant to post was

Fore!!!!

 

[Bounces R Way]

It's 2024, 2005 was not 20 years ago.

 

[rahad]

That's nice and all but it's been 30 years, how much longer will you be generously leaving cups for other teams?

Could say the same about Edmonton. Still 0 Stanley cup final with the best player in the league.

 

[Huffer]

The Jets had a lot of trouble making the playoffs from 2005 to 2011.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

That's nice and all but it's been 30 years, how much longer will you be generously leaving cups for other teams?

We will consider winning additional Stanley Cups as soon as each team has one. If more than 60 years pass, we might have second thoughts.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Not a single brag or proud hab poster in here and all these comments acting like we’re doing laps around town. It’s a pathetic stat for all 7 teams

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

Could say the same about Edmonton. Still 0 Stanley cup final with the best player in the league.

Draisaitl too...

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

What a run

This ain't Texas Nashville.

 

[BrokenFace]

If you added all 3 California teams to this list I think they'd take the top 3 spots. Guess high taxes isn't the issue with Canadian teams.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

It's 2024, 2005 was not 20 years ago.

Don't think it would change anything anyways. The Habs also made the playoffs in 2004 and won a round.

I'm not surprised by these numbers. The Canadiens were a pretty consistent playoff team for about 15 years from 2002 to 2017 (with a couple of runs after that too) and have generally been a pretty tough out in the playoffs, punching above their weight. And the rest of Canada has really really stunk for long periods of time.

 

[tfwnogf]

Could say the same about Edmonton. Still 0 Stanley cup final with the best player in the league.

true, it's up to evander kane to do the heavy lifting

 

[NVious]

What a run

(And for the first time in Las Vegas Golden Knights History! #Historic)

 

[crowi]

It's both funny and sad. Damn Canada - isn't this "your game"?

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

If you added all 3 California teams to this list I think they'd take the top 3 spots. Guess high taxes isn't the issue with Canadian teams.

It isn't the issue, but it's a big one.

The other big part is hiring dumbasses and then keeping them around like Bergevin, or Dorion, or terrible coaches like Smith and Keefe, or thinking a GM who's dumb as f*** like Holland is actually good.

Or Winnipeg just coming back like 13 years ago.

 

[Sykur]

Whenever I see stats like this I always wonder about the cutoff. Why 2005? So the stat maker can get the outcome he wants. If you include any years before, or cut it off to any years after, the stat might be different. It's effectively meaningless.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Whenever I see stats like this I always wonder about the cutoff. Why 2005? So the stat maker can get the outcome he wants. If you include any years before, or cut it off to any years after, the stat might be different. It's effectively meaningless.

I think it's because of the cap era. I'm also not sure the stat changes if you start with 2000 either but I could be wrong.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Well 2 don’t count 2020 they were in the expanded bubble playoffs 24th ranked team, or around there

2021, they were 18th, probably not a playoff team in a normal year. Habs fans don’t like it when that gets mentioned. But it’s the truth.

And that would still leave them with 9 appearances...

Guess who has more: Nobody...

 

[Spring in Fialta]

And that would still leave them with 9 appearances...

Guess who has more: Nobody...

It's also stupid because the Canadiens just played the hand that they were dealt. They didn't get any special rule that no one else got and they still have to beat Pittsburgh in 2020 and make the playoffs over the same season everyone else played in 2021.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Whenever I see stats like this I always wonder about the cutoff. Why 2005? So the stat maker can get the outcome he wants. If you include any years before, or cut it off to any years after, the stat might be different. It's effectively meaningless.

I guess you missed the part about "since the cap"...

 

[daver]

What a run

To you from mediocre hands we throw.....

 

[Mrb1p]

Thank you Carey Price

 

[ViD]

It's 2024, 2005 was not 20 years ago.

But lockout..

 

[Jee]

2021, they were 18th, probably not a playoff team in a normal year. Habs fans don’t like it when that gets mentioned. But it’s the truth.

Or you could have... you know... beat us... but you couldn't. That's the truth.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

2021, they were 18th, probably not a playoff team in a normal year. Habs fans don’t like it when that gets mentioned. But it’s the truth.

I'm not a Canadiens fan; however, this isn't a great argument.

Teams in 2021 played an intra-divisional schedule. You can't really compare between divisions (and so "18th in the league" doesn't mean much).

So it's not really "the truth" regardless of whether you want to offer the "HABS FANS HATE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK" crap. Can you make the argument? I guess. But there are valid counterpoints (you could argue that because the "worst" team in the North had the most points among worst teams that no North team could beat up on the worst team to accumulate points).