With the elimination of the New York Rangers, the President's Trophy curse lives on.
Normally in sports, the best team from the regular season tends to have the greatest odds to win the championship, at least theoretically. However, we have seen that this fact doesn't always come to fruition. The NFL and NBA are the two sports that tend to have more of their better teams win it all but MLB and the NHL tend to have more parity.The team with the best overall record in the NHL is awarded the President's Trophy, a symbol of dominance during the regular season.
It's almost a blessing for teams to not clinch the best record based on recent history in the league.Many believed that the Rangers would be the ones to break the dreaded curse this season as they were loaded on both sides of the ice. New York just happened to get outplayed by the Panthers in the series, with three of the six games going to overtime. Five of the six contests were decided by one goal, showing that the teams were fairly even.
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