Quote Originally Posted by PaulFLUS View Post
Yeah, good luck with that.
Of course the Russians used their geography ,(specifically in winter) to defeat Germany in two world wars so Now if a Canadian team could just pull off a Stanley Cup win
Actually Russia defeated Germany only in WWII. Russia signed a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk in March of 1918 with Germany and others taking them out of WWI. Only with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 that Germany was forced to give back land it had taken from Russia.

https://www.history.com/topics/world...-brest-litovsk

The Canadian hockey teams did seemed to do better in the original 6 teams in the NHL with 2 out of 6 being Canadian. In the current number of teams, Canadian teams represent 11% less of the total number than in the original 6 team set up. You'd need to add at least 3 Canadian teams to bring the odds back to where it was in the original 6. That might be part of the problem.

Bob