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Since there was no Stanley cup awarded in 2005...What if...?
It is known that the Stanley cup was originally awarded to the greatest team in hockey in North America each and every year until the NHL took it over in 1926.
With that in mind, since there was no Stanley cup awarded in the NHL in 2005 due to the NHL hockey strike, I have often wondered what if the cup should have been contested that year between the other two major hockey leagues in North America....being the AHL and the CHL.
Furthermore, knowing that the London Knights won the CHL memorial cup in that year with arguably the greatest CHL team ever to play in that league and knowing that the Philadelphia Phantoms won the AHL Calder cup in that year, who would have won in a best of 7 game series for the Stanley cup that year ? London Knights or Philadelphia Phantoms ?
An interesting what if for sure :)
7 Answers
- Expat MikeLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The CHL is a collection of juniors leagues. The AHL is the second best professional league in North America, full of older more seasoned players (the majority of whom are actually former players of a CHL league).
The '04-'05 Knights were a great juniors team, sure, but it still wouldn't have been a contest. The Phantoms in 4, maybe 5.
- Awesome BillLv 71 decade ago
That is an interesting proposition. Forget the reality of it since the Stanley Cup is the property of the NHL, but if London played Philly I'm sure that would have been the best of hockey for that particular season.
I'm biased as I was at most of the Phantoms home games in the playoffs that year. It was nice to be at a championship winning game. I also am completely unfamiliar with the CHL being that we don't get broadcasts here around Philly and there aren't any teams nearby. The Erie Otters of the OHL are on the opposite corner of Pennsylvania.
But if everything were right with the universe, such a tourney would be held in case the NHL decides not to have another season.
- VashtiLv 71 decade ago
This was posted on a blog during the lockout:
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Free Stanley
I read about this group, Free Stanley, in this morning's Wall Street Journal. Three Canadian hockey fans from Edmonton want the trustees of the Stanley Cup to award the cup to some non-NHL team. According to the Free Stanley website, the mission is:
Free Stanley's mission is to make sure there are Stanley Cup playoffs this hockey season. We love the Stanley Cup playoffs and we love the Cup. We believe it is the best trophy in all of sport, and it should not be denied to the best hockey team is playing this season. If there is no NHL season the Stanley Cup should then be awarded to the best hockey team in Canada, which was Lord Stanley's original intent for the Cup.
But the problem, according to the Wall Street Journal article is this:
Even so, the chances of reviving the Stanley Cup this year are slim. The cup's trustees maintain that the cup won't be awarded this year because the NHL season was canceled in February. Under a 1947 agreement between the trustees and the NHL, the league controls the competition for the Cup.
This reminds me of the calls for baseball fans to become free agents in order to get their teams to pay more attention to their interests. But because fans interests are so dispersed, these calls go unheeded. Will Stanley's cup be freed? Stay tuned, sports fans.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Phantoms would because they are more grown up and work out more, and they had Jeff Carter, R.J. Umberger, Mike Richards, and Antero Niittymaki on that team, going up against a 15 or 16 year old Patrick Kane, that would have been a disaster.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Great idea.
A little late, however.
It would have been a good way to give the finger to the NHL at the time.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
That's one way to get Philly back on the cup, maybe the only way. 8P~
Source(s): 1975 - 1 decade ago
Nethier i found youre idea a little to old for now that was then this is now so man c'mon its stuck with the nhl but okay
