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4 Stanley Cup-titlar. Professional clubs came to dominate the competition in the early years of the twentieth century, and in the two major professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association NHA , forerunner of the NHL, and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association PCHA , reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other in an annual series for the Stanley Cup.
After a series of league mergers and folds, it became the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in , though it was nominally still subject to external challenge. After , the Cup became the de jure NHL championship prize. From to the end of the —24 season, the trophy has been won times. Prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine teams. There were two years when the Stanley Cup was not awarded: , because of the Spanish flu pandemic , and , because of the —05 NHL lockout.
The origins of the Challenge era come from the method of play of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada prior to From to , the league did not play a round-robin format, but rather challenges between teams of the association that year, with the winner of the series being the 'interim' champion, with the final challenge winner becoming the league champion for the year.
The Stanley Cup kept the tradition going, but added league championships as another way that a team could win the trophy. If a team in the same league as the current champion won the league championship, it would then inherit the Cup, without a challenge. The only time this rule was not followed was in , when the Ottawa Senators club withdrew from its league, the CAHL.
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During the challenge cup period, none of the leagues that played for the trophy had a formal playoff system to decide their respective champions; whichever team finished in first place after the regular season won the league title. In , Cup trustees declared that it was only to be defended at the end of the champion team's regular season. In , the Allan Cup was introduced as the trophy for Canada's amateurs, as the Stanley Cup became a symbol of professional hockey supremacy.
This table lists the outcome of all Stanley Cup wins, including successful victories and defenses in challenges, and league championships for the challenge era.
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As a compromise, the trustees decided that if the Montreal HC won the challenge match, the Victorias would become the Stanley Cup champions. The Montreals eventually won the game, 5—1, and their crosstown rivals were awarded the Cup. Intended to be a best-of-three series, Ottawa Capitals withdrew their challenge after the first game. The January 31 a Saturday game was tied 2—2 at midnight and the Mayor of Westmount refused to allow play to continue on Sunday.
The game was played on February 2 a Monday and the January 31 game was considered to be void. For most of , the Ottawa Hockey Club was not affiliated with any league. The Montreal Wanderers were disqualified as the result of a dispute. After game one ended tied at the end of regulation, 5—5, the Wanderers refused to play overtime with the current referee, and then subsequently refused to play the next game of the series in Ottawa.
During the series, it was revealed that the Victoria club had not filed a formal challenge. A letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, stating that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge because he had expected Emmett Quinn, president of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored.
In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted. After the New Westminster Royals moved to Portland in the summer of becoming the Portland Rosebuds , an American-based team, the trustees issued a statement that the Cup was no longer for the best team in Canada, but now for the best team in the world. In , the Spanish influenza epidemic forced the Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans to cancel their series tied at 2—2—1, marking the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded.
Now three leagues competed for the Cup and this necessitated a semi-final series between two league champions, with the third having a bye directly to the final. With the loss of the PCHA, the championship reverted to a single series. When the WHL folded in , its remaining assets were acquired by the NHL, making it the only remaining league with teams competing for the Cup.
Other leagues and clubs have issued challenges, but from that year forward no non-NHL team has played for it, leading it to become the de facto championship trophy of the NHL. Ross and Cooper Smeaton to grant control of the Cup to the NHL, allowing the league itself to reject challenges from other leagues that may have wished to play for the Cup. Since , the league's playoff format, deciding which teams advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals , has changed multiple times.
In some systems that were previously used , playoff teams were seeded regardless of division or conference. From to the Cup was competed for by the league's six teams, also known as the Original Six. In , the league returned to using playoff systems that allowed cross-over between the divisions and conferences. In , the COVID pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions along the Canada—United States border forced the league to temporarily realign the teams into four regional divisions with no conferences, and hold a divisional-based playoff format: the four divisional playoff champions advanced to the Stanley Cup Semifinals, and the winners of those series moved on to the Finals.
The league then returned to the Eastern vs. Western Conference format in In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of appearances, then by number of wins, and finally by alphabetical order.
In the "Season s " column, bold years indicate winning Stanley Cup Finals appearances. Unless marked otherwise, teams played in the NHL exclusively at the time they competed for the Stanley Cup.