Nowadays on the NHL with 30 teams competing for 16 playoff spots, it's inconceivable that any team could win the Stanley Cup using a losing record over the regular season. In your modern era, teams having a quite as good as.500 record often don't even make the playoffs.Incredibly, twice in your standing for the National Hockey League, teams along with a losing record did not only made it to the Stanley Cup final but have the Cup home as league champions. It happened once usually in the 'Original Six' era just as soon as little one any time there was eight NHL teams separated into two divisions of four teams.To start with this happened was within the 1937-38 season. Once, the teams inside the league played easy to access . 48 games schedule and most loved teams, the latest York Americans and Montreal Maroons were still going strong. The Toronto Maple Leafs took the Canadian Division within regular season which has a record of 24 wins, 15 losses and 9 ties. The Boston Bruins ran away along with the American Division by using a record of 30 wins, 11 losses and 7 ties.The Chicago Black Hawks finished third in your American Division, just two points in front of the Detroit Red Wings which includes a dismal record of 14 wins, 25 losses and 9 ties. Really the only team worse was the Montreal Maroons have been as part of their 2009 of existence. Yet, when all was said and done, the Black Hawks were crowned Stanley Cup Champs.The next time the position arose was all through the 1948-49 season. There initially were only six teams during the league and only the highest four teams competed inside the post season playoffs. The Detroit Red Wings took to begin with easily with 75 points over the 60 game season. Boston and Montreal were second and third with 66 and 65 points as well as the Toronto Maple Leafs rounded the top four with 57 points on 22 wins, 25 losses and 13 ties.Toronto happened for taking their third straight Stanley Cup a lot more durable weak regular season showing. Consider the 63 the final time the feat was ever accomplished and in all likelihood may be the last time ever unless the league downsizes or changes its playoff structure in the foreseeable future. It must be noted that a lot of every season through 'Original Six' era, the fourth place time had a losing record usually in the regular season so nearly every year a chance was there for one severe underdog to take the Stanley Cup home.
