There is no such thing as a working crystal ball. Even the best forecasters are going to be wrong if they forecast over a long enough period, whether they’re predicting world events, the weather or the winner of the Stanley Cup. Forecasters deal in probabilities, and in this specific example every game represents a chance for the players on the ice to overcome those probabilities.
To borrow a phrase, the race does not always go to the swift nor the battle to the strong, and that’s even when there’s no argument over who precisely is the strongest and the fastest.
Still, those probabilities can tell us a lot. If we look back over the 10 Cup winners of the salary-cap era and see that nine of them share a certain trait, it becomes a lot easier to say that if your NHL club is to win the championship, it should also have that quality.
That’s what we’re going to do here: examine some of the common threads that tie champions together to see if we can identify the real contenders in the 2016 NHL postseason.
Scoring more goals than the other team is a good thing
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