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The Stanley Cup has been contested every year since 1918 (barring two cancellations), with the Montreal Canadiens the most decorated franchise in the sport's history.
Covers every Stanley Cup Final decided from the founding of the NHL (1917-18 season, first Final played spring 1918) through the 2025-26 season; the pre-NHL "challenge cup" era (1893-1917), when amateur and professional clubs from various leagues challenged for the Cup outside any single league structure, is excluded rather than guessed. Two seasons in scope had no Cup awarded and are omitted from the entries list: 1918-19 (series cancelled mid-way due to the Spanish flu pandemic) and 2004-05 (entire season lost to the NHL lockout). From 1917-18 through 1925-26 the Cup was still occasionally won by a non-NHL club (Victoria Cougars of the WCHL, 1924-25) under the old inter-league challenge format; from 1926-27 onward it has been exclusively an NHL competition. Franchise title counts follow standard NHL-recognized lineage (e.g. Toronto Maple Leafs includes the Toronto Arenas and Toronto St. Patricks eras, and Chicago Blackhawks includes the "Black Hawks" spelling era) but do NOT include Montreal Canadiens' 1915-16 championship, which was won in the NHA one year before the NHL existed โ widely-cited "24 Stanley Cups" totals for Montreal include that pre-NHL title, while the 23 shown here reflects only the NHL era covered by this list. New Jersey Devils, Colorado Avalanche, and Tampa Bay Lightning are tied at 3 titles each just outside this top-10 leaderboard and are not all shown due to the 10-team cap.
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107 entries on record
Carolina's second Stanley Cup, and first since 2006.
Back-to-back champions โ a rematch of the 2024 Final.
Florida's first Stanley Cup in franchise history, rallying from a 3-0 series lead being cut to force a Game 7.
Vegas won the Cup in only its sixth season as a franchise.
Played in a bio-secure "bubble" in Edmonton due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Blues were last in the NHL standings in early January 2019 before winning it all.
Washington's first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The entire 2004-05 season and Stanley Cup were not held due to the NHL lockout.
Ended a 54-year Cup drought for the Rangers, their last title before this having come in 1940.
Montreal's most recent Stanley Cup to date โ their 23rd since the NHL was founded.
Fourth consecutive Cup for the Islanders (1980-1983).
Montreal's fourth straight Cup (1976-1979).
Toronto's most recent Stanley Cup โ an active drought of more than 55 years.
Fifth consecutive Cup for Montreal (1956-1960) โ still the longest championship streak in NHL history.
Toronto came back from a 3-0 series deficit โ still the only time in NHL history a team has done so.
From this year on, the Stanley Cup has been an exclusively NHL competition. The Montreal Maroons franchise folded in 1938.
The last Stanley Cup won by a team from outside the NHL โ Victoria played in the rival WCHL.
The 1918-19 Final between Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans was cancelled with the series tied 2-2-1 due to the Spanish flu pandemic โ no champion was declared that year.
First Stanley Cup Final of the NHL era (the NHL was founded in November 1917); Vancouver represented the rival PCHA.