Morrow didn’t grow a beard during the 1980 playoffs. ... He has covered almost 2,000 NHL games, including over 150 in the playoffs and four Stanley Cup Final series.

Stanley Cup Playoffs 2025: Picks, predictions for every first-round series, ... It's tied for the most consecutive opening round meetings since the postseason expanded to 16 teams in 1980.

Rookie defenseman Lane Hutson is the sixth first-year blueliner in playoff history to record at least five assists in his first postseason series, joining Ray Bourque (1980), Janne Niinimaa (1997 ...

Draisaitl was drafted third in 2014 by Edmonton behind defenseman Aaron Ekblad and center Sam Reinhart, both of whom are now on the Panthers. McDavid was the coveted first pick in 2015 whom Edmonton ...

Oilers Stanley Cup playoff history. ... 1980-92, a 12-year stretch in which the team made the playoffs every season and won all five of its titles, ...

But sagging television ratings in the United States during the 2024-25 Stanley Cup playoffs have since offered the latest confirmation of what the NHL has experienced since at least the famed 1980 ...

The Panthers are now just the fourth team since 1980 to reach the Stanley Cup Final in three consecutive seasons. They can be the third team since 2000 to win back-to-back Cup titles.

One top seed has never won a Stanley Cup. The other wasn't expected to make the playoffs at all. And a pair of brothers who burned bright for Team USA in February are set to return to the ice.

All four rounds of the playoffs are best-of-seven, and the first team to 16 victories wins the Stanley Cup. Rematch time Last year, Florida went up 3-0 before Edmonton won the next three in a row ...

The teams competing in every single Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup essentially lie directly due north (or south) of each other, with a margin of no larger than 1.6 degrees longitude.

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The first-round matchups are set for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, ... It's tied for the most consecutive opening round meetings since the postseason expanded to 16 teams in 1980.