• June 3, 2021

Which teams are considered a current dynasty in the NHL

When you look at all professional sports, each league has a dynasty. Some dynasties are perceived in their own unique way. Soccer has the New England Patriots of the NFL and Notre Dame of the NCAA. Basketball has the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. Of course, baseball has the most obvious and prolific dynasty of all, the New York Yankees. These are still teams that made history then and still make history now. Note that I have not mentioned the list of hockey dynasties yet. That’s because the NHL doesn’t have teams that have made as much history now as they have in the past. Sure you can proclaim the Montreal Canadiens to be a dynasty, but not for the modern fan. The Canadiens last won the Stanley Cup in 1993 and that was 19 years ago when I am recalling this article. Since this is a hockey article, we are going to focus on the topic, I will tell you the best nominees to achieve dynasty status in the NHL and also tell you the reasons why they are not a dynasty.

The Pittsburgh Penguins have made a success story in the past and also a few years ago in 2009, when they won their third Stanley Cup. Between the late 1990s and the 2004-2005 lockout, penguins faced many difficulties on the ice and in accounting records. First, the team was starting to show disappointing seasons after back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992. Mario Lemiuex and Jaromir Jagr were still performing well, but they didn’t have the championship caliber team they had before, Jagr was still performing well. But Lemieux had alarming heart problems. An athlete in his best physical condition should not have an abnormal heartbeat, but nevertheless forced him to retire in 1997. Meanwhile, Jagr was still recording incredible offensive totals, but there was no playoff success for his team during Lemieux’s absence between 1997 and 2000. Lemieux came out of retirement and barely led his team to the playoffs during the 2000-2001 season. Jagr had already been traded at the time and he too led his own team back to the playoffs, which at the time were the Washington Capitals. Nothing happened with that glorious comeback season and once again the Penguins fell into hard times.

In the 2003-2004 season, the Penguins declared bankruptcy during their worst season in franchise history. Lemieux was out for most of the season due to a recurring heart problem and the team played absolutely poorly finishing last in the entire league. The lockout happened and then things improved very quickly for the organization. With the number one draft picks they acquired, they took the NHL by storm and became a modern NHL phenomenon by posting winning records and eventually winning the Stanley Cup in 2009.

The Detroit Red Wings hold the record in all professional sports by entering the playoffs for 21 consecutive seasons dating back to 1991. Because of their winning, they are known as hockeytown and have earned the supreme respect of teams and even from fans around the world. During their incredible playoff streak, they won the Stanley Cup four times, including consecutive cups in 1997 and 1998. Steve Yzerman, Brendan Shanahan, Kris Draper, Niklas Lidstrom and company spent all those years winning cups and building their legendary status. It was only in 2008 that Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan did not win the cup with that edition of the team. Due to their unprecedented writing skills, they found Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg in the sixth and seventh rounds respectively in the NHL draft. Both Datsyuk and Zetterberg led the charge to win the 2008 Stanley Cup and were responsible for keeping the playoff streak alive after Yzerman retired. You may think this team sounds like a dynasty, but the amount of time they’ve been winning the cup between 2002 and 2008 is too great a distance to be recognized as a clear dynasty, plus they’ve accomplished little since the Stanley Cup final. in 2009. when they lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The final team on my list of nominees to be in the close dynasty category was a difficult choice because there are so many teams that move in the same amount of success with each other. My final nominee is the New Jersey Devils. The reason I picked New Jersey over the Colorado Avalanche, Chicago Blackhawks, and Dallas Stars is because the Devils had some kind of success in both the pre and post-lockout era, unlike the other three teams that only had appearances. in the Stanley Cup in just one of those times. The Devils have won the Stanley Cup three times since 1995 and appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2012 and Martin Brodeur was in the net for all of those Stanley Cup Final appearances and victories. The Devils had a supreme defense of Scott Niedermayer, Scott Stevens and Ken Daneyko handling the point. The Devils didn’t really have superstar forwards like the Penguins and Red Wings, but they played a solid, defensive-minded game that weathered opponents with their defensive and goalkeeping prowess. They always had excellent training with Jacques Lemaire, Lou Lamieriello, Pat Burns and most recently Peter Deboer behind the bench. It tells you how well they search for talent year after year in the personnel department and it goes to show how it translates into winning teams. Even after all those times they won the Lord Stanley Cup, the average attendance after all those years was only 16,000, well their legacy remains.

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