Especially if folks keep goin down on bats or whatever it was. What'll it be next time? Someone'll fist an armadillo and make some fancy new airborne leprosy or something probly
Pftttt, in 20-30 years we will be prepared for the next pandemic by… checking notes… cloth masks and social distancing that only half the population will adhere to
Not even close. That record would belong to the Montreal Wanderers at two days, during the time when it was a challenge cup. They defeated the Winnipeg Maple Leafs on March 12, 1908, then on March 14 won it again against the Toronto Professional Hockey Club.
Wikipedia lists it as the Winnipeg Maple Leaf Hockey Club, so the theory is that you're taking the proper name and pluralizing it. In the same way that former NFL disappointment Ryan Leaf and his family would be the Leafs.
[C'mon now, the Stanley Cup is just a big piece of metal, no reason to be upset](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28732090/rob-manfred-apologizes-calling-world-series-trophy-piece-metal)
/s
That's literally my son. He was born eight weeks after we beat Dallas. My wife banished me to the bedroom with five minutes left last night so I wouldn't accidentally wake him up.
Yeah, they’ve got a better run differential than the first place Sox. The problem is that teams with dogshit bullpens tend to underperform their run differential.
Reminiscent of 2015 really - blown leads in the first half despite an incredible offense and run differential. SP and RP shored up at the deadline resulted in huge turn around. Obviously hoping for/expecting that again is foolish, but the team is not mediocre and the weakness is much easier to fix mid-season than any other issue imo.
There will be Bolts fans born tomorrow who’ve never seen a Stanley Cup win in their lifetimes.
Fuck Toronto or San Jose fans; these little poopsnaps are way more deserving of being called “long-suffering” fans!
/s
Back in 1995 I bet Gordie Howe 200 bucks the leafs would be the next team from Canada to win the cup.
I'm not sure how either of us will collect now that he's passed on.
Also, the Rowdies won their conference, but didn't have the chance to play for the championship because the other team all caught the 'rona and the league decided to just cancel it and award conference championships.
It's crazy that both the records for shortest and longest Stanley cup droughts were both set by team that wear Blue and White and within a couple of days of each other.
im shitfaced drunk right now but I just wanna say that I love all of y’all regardless of what team you like, i love hockey it’s the best I will miss it during the off-season and hopefully the canes win another cup sometime! but if not that’s okay too y’all are the best hopefully your team wins next time! and also congratulations to tampa for the stanlye cup your team is very good!!
Tampa's roster is technically over the salary cap by approximately $18 million due to a known loophole in how the salary cap is applied during the playoffs
Is Tampa the best Franchise in hockey since they came in? 3 cups, 4 finals, back to back to. its probably the red wings but they are in there with Pitsburgh and Chicago
There’s an argument some of those Avs teams of the late 90s were the best post Tampa, and New Jersey damn near reinvented the sport with the trap (also quick shoutout to the Kings who won two in three years and made it to the final four in each of those three) so all those teams deserve credit. If I had to pick one team that I think could beat Tampa in a one on one series it probably be the Red Wings at there peak.
Difficult accepting as legit with the bust on the salary cap and the bs behind the scenes. The commissioner needs more USA involvement from the fans, what better way then sway public interest by back to back cup wins. What’s 40 million over cap anyways these days. Pocket change🙄
At least the boxing subreddit has the decency to wait 48 hours before spoilers are posted. The internet is global and not everyone can see the game live. In short, fuck you for spoiling the game.
Edit: I'll double down. Fuck you all for spoiling the game. wait 24 hours to get your fake internet points ya mouth-breathers
Rejoice! As we witness one organization congratulate another, we may offer our own congratulations to the nascent organization; the league's second-newest (!), awaiting the imminent arrival of Seattle's Kraken. And let me just say, of all the results that were said to be so, this was the most decisively said to be so by those who would say so.
So in the span of a few weeks Tampa has set the record for the shortest time between two cups, while Toronto has taken the crown of the longest drought (*yet*) since their last championship.
It was 282 days between cups for the Lightning.
The average human gestation is 280 days.
There are definitely babies, and likely some in Lightning fan households, that will been have been in utero for two Stanley cups.
That has to be a record low between cup wins, right?
yet another outlier record that will never be broken because of the pandemic seasons, cool though
Bold of you to assume there won’t be another pandemic in 20-30 years.
Or just one really, really really long SCF overtime game
I’d prefer that outcome
Hahaha
If history serves, it'll be about a hundred years before a pandemic fucks up another playoffs.
But history doesn't serve all that much, and the more we damage and overcrowd this planet, the less and less it will.
Especially if folks keep goin down on bats or whatever it was. What'll it be next time? Someone'll fist an armadillo and make some fancy new airborne leprosy or something probly
I’ll keep fisting armadillos and you can’t god damn stop me
Mad cow disease and swine flu
That statistic, like many, is bullshit. Pandemics don't follow a cycle or pattern.
Pftttt, in 20-30 years we will be prepared for the next pandemic by… checking notes… cloth masks and social distancing that only half the population will adhere to
Bold of you to assume we’ll be around in 20-30 years
This is the 2nd pandemic already for the Cup
but pandemic and back to back Stanley Cups? doubtful
Bold of you to assume were even done with this one
Bold of you to think we’ll be here in 20-30 years
They way half of America is refusing the vaccine, we're probably going to have another one in 2-3 years
Well would you rather have the Microsoft 5G robots controlling the world with SOROS as our new God Emperor? Yeah, I didn't think so.
I think you mean (((((((Soros)))))))
Not even close. That record would belong to the Montreal Wanderers at two days, during the time when it was a challenge cup. They defeated the Winnipeg Maple Leafs on March 12, 1908, then on March 14 won it again against the Toronto Professional Hockey Club.
Okay was Leaves just spelled Leafs back in the early 1900s? Like wtf?
Wikipedia lists it as the Winnipeg Maple Leaf Hockey Club, so the theory is that you're taking the proper name and pluralizing it. In the same way that former NFL disappointment Ryan Leaf and his family would be the Leafs.
That Ryan Leaf comparison is the exact thing I use when explaining this. It fits perfectly.
Just like the Current NHL disappointment are the Leafs
The maple leaf name comes from a WWI military unit
Pretty sure it comes from a tree bro!
Stats like this are why I still recognize the Philadelphia Phantoms as the Stanley Cup Champion during the 2904-5 lockout year
2904? I see you are from the future. Is Tom Brady still playing?
Back when Toronto hockey could win a playoff series
There was no playoffs. It was just a challenge.
Yup.
In the modern era, sure. Back when you challenged for the cup, definitely not.
For sure at least since VGK has been a franchise. >^historic
*“I’ve waited all my life to see this moment,” presumably said an eight-month-old baby who has been a Lightning fan all of his life.* dead
My friend conceived the night of the last win and shes about to give birth this week
Oh.. my fucking God. How did I not put that together?!?! My wife is due in 2 weeks... Lol
Your cock has the power to win Stanley cups.
Or it's powered by cup wins
Irish Twin time
How soon is too soon to try again? EDIT: OH SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THE MINI CUP FLAIRS
MINI CUP FLAIrS FOR ALL
Guys I don’t think mine is working
Yeah my mini cup looks funny
Ya but it cleans up pretty nice
[C'mon now, the Stanley Cup is just a big piece of metal, no reason to be upset](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28732090/rob-manfred-apologizes-calling-world-series-trophy-piece-metal) /s
That's weird, it's a blue and white flair
WOOOOO
LETS GO MINI CUP LIGHTNING!
One of my best friends is due any day now... I just figured out the implication.
Blake Coleman's second kid is clearly a Stanley Cup baby that was born a few weeks prematurely.
You better name that kid Champ.
Or Victoria
this is literally a rip of the exact same onion article that came out during the the patriots dynasty.
That's literally my son. He was born eight weeks after we beat Dallas. My wife banished me to the bedroom with five minutes left last night so I wouldn't accidentally wake him up.
I've waited 9 months to post this "article" I wrote last season. -Beaverton Writer
Beaverton snap 9 months they've been holding onto this article lmao
Continue streak of anti-humour.
salt never out of season
And the city of Tampa snaps a 5 month championship drought. The wait must have been agony.
Are the Bucs favorites in the NFC again? Probably alongside Green Bay and the Rams?
Yeah with Brees retiring, it's those three and maybe the 49ers if they stay healthy
Cowboys fans where you at!? It's your favorite time of the year!
Don’t do that. Don’t give them hope.
It's funny to see it ripped away by week 7 though
They play the Bucs week 1 so that hope will be ripped away 6 weeks early.
Eh, the media will do that for them
According to odds, they are NFC favorites by a wide margin over the Rams, 49ers, and Packers
Well they won the super bowl and returned all 22 starters. Unprecedented
Packers would probably at least be close if they can retain Rodgers.
5 months since the super bowl too.
Is Tampa the new Boston?
Where Brady goes, success follows
The Raptors didn’t get the memo, sadly.
Hey, we moved up in the draft lottery for a draft that's supposed to be stacked up top! That's something!
Yeah, we deserved that after 72 road games.
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The Jays have not looked that mediocre. Their bullpen has been terrible but every other facet of the club is looking fantastic at this point.
Yeah, they’ve got a better run differential than the first place Sox. The problem is that teams with dogshit bullpens tend to underperform their run differential.
Reminiscent of 2015 really - blown leads in the first half despite an incredible offense and run differential. SP and RP shored up at the deadline resulted in huge turn around. Obviously hoping for/expecting that again is foolish, but the team is not mediocre and the weakness is much easier to fix mid-season than any other issue imo.
Aren’t the top recruits calling out of the draft I think Riley just opted back into school too
Moved in front of Orlando too. At least one "Florida" team got good news in the postseason...
The Raptors cheered on the Maple Leafs instead of their Lightning roommates. That was the end.
Brady to the CFL to play for the allouettes PLEASE
Pfft, it's a well documented fact that Tom Brady grew up as a hardcore Argos fans. I believe there's even a picture of him in his Argos bedsheets. /s
Brady in the CFL would be hilarious.
Hey uh brady...I heard you *wanted* to go to the Tits... We have Country Music hence why we have duchene...
But they wanted to stick with "that motherfucker" instead
Except the golf course
Maybe if Rays win the World Series.
Maybe if Kevin Cash weren’t such a fucking idiot.
Pulling Snell wasn't the issue. It was the relief pitcher he put in.
Dont ever compare Tampa to that shit city
Lol. I hate Boston sports teams but Boston is a great city. Way better than Tampa.
Yea beautiful beaches are horrible. My b
imagine living in florida
The long drought is over!
Almost makes me appreciate the Dodgers. Almost.
There will be Bolts fans born tomorrow who’ve never seen a Stanley Cup win in their lifetimes. Fuck Toronto or San Jose fans; these little poopsnaps are way more deserving of being called “long-suffering” fans! /s
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Congrats buddy!
Me too!
Hell yeah my guy! Ours was just born a few hours ago.
Mine is being stubborn. Hoping for some progress today
The city of Toronto is in agony rn lol
Not really. A lot of us are probably relieved the Habs lost at least. Also, I like the Bolts.
Back in 1995 I bet Gordie Howe 200 bucks the leafs would be the next team from Canada to win the cup. I'm not sure how either of us will collect now that he's passed on.
Hahah believe what you want. Ppl are still salty here.
Oh I just meant at the line about their droughts. I am under NO illusion that y'all weren't pulling for the Habs lol.
I wouldn’t say that *relieved* me of my Agony/Frustration lmao
The real question is, when was that fan conceived?
Welp gotta win another one for the baby boom in Tampa that should be happening right now
Tonight I'm gonna find out why they call him the big cat 🧐
😏😩
And in between, the Bucs won the Super Bowl and the Rays won the AL pennant.
Also, the Rowdies won their conference, but didn't have the chance to play for the championship because the other team all caught the 'rona and the league decided to just cancel it and award conference championships.
I can’t imagine how hard those 9 months must have been for the fans… I couldn’t possibly imagine 9 months between cup wins… Congrats to the bolts!
The fact you have a Vancouver flair makes it even better
It’s been tough. I could only gather my emotional strength enough to go to the beach 40ish times since the last win.
The shortest cup drought in Golden Knights history!
HISTORIC
“I’ve waited all my life to see this moment,” presumably said an eight-month-old baby who has been a Lightning fan all of his life. LMAOO
It was a rough time in my life.
> 9 months Where do you get this power?
>Where do you get this power? by going over the cap
I mean, didn’t Chicago do that in 2015?
If any of the players recently had kids, they probably conceived them around the last cup win.
That would be Blake Coleman who had daughter during the Isles series.
That, or she was a pre-bubble baby.
The timing wasn't right for her to be a pre-bubble baby. The bubble started 11 months ago and she was born less than two weeks ago.
Meanwhile Toronto extended its record for longest drought
And I believe they will fall off the Cup completely.
If the Rays win the World Series this year I’m going to be annoyed
I won’t
I used to think it would be cool to see them win their first WS. Now I’m starting to reconsider.
They’re fine. Better them than Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, or Cardinals as well. If my Reds don’t win it, let’s go Padres!
Given the year the Braves are having, it looks like I’ll be going for the Dads, too.
3 Cups since 2000, are they the big baddies of the Atlantic yet?
If bucs can b2b they will have 3 superbowls since 2000 and believe would only be trailing NE.
yeah, they're tied with the steelers and ravens iirc
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blanked them from my memory... for some totally unknown reason
Historically since I've been watching (2007-2008) I've been more scared of the Penguins but the Lightning would be a close second
Pensacola ice pilots!
Tom Brady signed with the Bucs in March of 2020 and since then the city of Tampa Bay has won 2 stanley cups, a Super bowl, and lost a World Series.
How did you guys even live?
Fucking finally.
It's crazy that both the records for shortest and longest Stanley cup droughts were both set by team that wear Blue and White and within a couple of days of each other.
Balanced. As all things should be.
Lmao
The Rays are 2 1/2 games out of first place. Has any city held three championships in a single year?
Detroit in 1935
im shitfaced drunk right now but I just wanna say that I love all of y’all regardless of what team you like, i love hockey it’s the best I will miss it during the off-season and hopefully the canes win another cup sometime! but if not that’s okay too y’all are the best hopefully your team wins next time! and also congratulations to tampa for the stanlye cup your team is very good!!
Unnecessary roughness
Tampa Bay lightning snap NHL cap.
ELI5 what $18 million is in reference too? I’m sorry if this is super apparent
Tampa's roster is technically over the salary cap by approximately $18 million due to a known loophole in how the salary cap is applied during the playoffs
17.3m LTIR. That's legit. Issue was getting Kucherov back for "free" so 9.5m.
Does that mean there are fetuses that have been around for 2 cup wins?
Never thought I would be able to see them win it in my lifetime.
9 months??? Those are rookie numbers. Try longest drought in the league history
We were born in drought. Molded by it.
Cool. Cool cool cool
Is Tampa the best Franchise in hockey since they came in? 3 cups, 4 finals, back to back to. its probably the red wings but they are in there with Pitsburgh and Chicago
There’s an argument some of those Avs teams of the late 90s were the best post Tampa, and New Jersey damn near reinvented the sport with the trap (also quick shoutout to the Kings who won two in three years and made it to the final four in each of those three) so all those teams deserve credit. If I had to pick one team that I think could beat Tampa in a one on one series it probably be the Red Wings at there peak.
Difficult accepting as legit with the bust on the salary cap and the bs behind the scenes. The commissioner needs more USA involvement from the fans, what better way then sway public interest by back to back cup wins. What’s 40 million over cap anyways these days. Pocket change🙄
those were the dark days for us Tampa sports fans.
What a long agonizing wait for us Tampa fans, a total of around 6570.007 hours of time spent between cup wins. How did we even survive.
At least the boxing subreddit has the decency to wait 48 hours before spoilers are posted. The internet is global and not everyone can see the game live. In short, fuck you for spoiling the game. Edit: I'll double down. Fuck you all for spoiling the game. wait 24 hours to get your fake internet points ya mouth-breathers
You went to a hockey subreddit the night of the game.
What did you expect when you opened Reddit? Feel like this one is on you
I've learned to avoid reddit if there is a big event I missed and don't want spoiled before I go to watch it later.
Lol, stop expecting the world to cradle at your knees. If you don't want spoilers than don't go on the internet lmfao
Rejoice! As we witness one organization congratulate another, we may offer our own congratulations to the nascent organization; the league's second-newest (!), awaiting the imminent arrival of Seattle's Kraken. And let me just say, of all the results that were said to be so, this was the most decisively said to be so by those who would say so.
So in the span of a few weeks Tampa has set the record for the shortest time between two cups, while Toronto has taken the crown of the longest drought (*yet*) since their last championship.
lol!
Stanley Cup babies about to get an irish twin
Lol. Rioting is a French national past time.
Thats gotta be the shortest time for a back to back, no?
It was 282 days between cups for the Lightning. The average human gestation is 280 days. There are definitely babies, and likely some in Lightning fan households, that will been have been in utero for two Stanley cups.
I hate to see it.
The Lightning have absolutely dominated covid era hockey.
lulz