Four NHL teams will enter the playoffs with a chance to win the Stanley Cup for the first time. BetMGM's Gary Pearson says one of his early-season dark horses has the best chance of the four of winning it all.

With the 2026 NHL playoffs set to begin on Saturday, there are 16 teams that need 16 wins to lift the Stanley Cup. Each of those wins will be harder to earn than the last, and only one team can hit magic No. 16 and hang a banner.

Sure, anyone can win the Stanley Cup so long as they make the playoffs — but is that really true? At this point we know there are contenders and pretenders in every postseason, and while it’s really cool to see Sidney Crosby in playoff hockey again ...

Bobby Orr's goal, which won the Stanley Cup in overtime, was scored inside the Boston Garden 56 years ago today. It took all of 40 seconds into OT for the Bruins and Orr to win that Stanley Cup over the expansion St. Louis Blues, sweeping them with ease.

The Utah Mammoth earned their first Stanley Cup Playoff victory Tuesday when they defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 at T-Mobile Arena in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round.

The Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup in back-to-back years, hoisting the trophy in both 2024 and 2025. A team has not three-peated the Stanley Cup since the Islanders won four straight from 1980-1983. But with the Panthers out of playoff contention and a three-peat off the table, a new team will be named champion at the end of the postseason.

The Mammoth became the third team in the last 45 years to make the playoffs in the first two seasons of existence. Their Stanley Cup odds improved from +5500 to +4000 since the end of January, thanks to allowing the seventh-fewest goals against per game (2.90