Peter Klein continues his NHL Preview, highlighting the teams that must win the Stanley Cup this year. Whether it’s due to aging stars or mounting pressure, these teams have everything to lose. Find out who needs the Cup the most and why!
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00:00Alright, it is another edition of our NHL Preview as we get ready for the start of the
00:15NHL season.
00:16And look, every team comes in saying they are the one, that this is our year, it's Stanley
00:23Cup or bust, here we go, we got this, this is our year.
00:29We know only a few mean that though, right?
00:31We have an understanding, like they're talking in Calgary about, yeah, you know, we can surprise
00:35some people.
00:36Will you?
00:37We'll see.
00:38Um, but, there are some teams who that's legitimate.
00:41It is Stanley Cup or bust.
00:43And there are even more teams who have a lot of pressure on them coming into this season.
00:48And so today, going to be looking at the teams that need the Stanley Cup the most.
00:54Which teams need to win this year?
00:58Obviously I feel like a lot of teams, you know, want to win, and all of those things.
01:03But who needs this one the most?
01:07I have a poll up right now, so you guys can get that voting going and all of those things.
01:17But let's get into it now.
01:19Honorable mention to the Carolina Hurricanes.
01:23This is a team that I feel like they have underperformed in the postseason the last
01:30couple of years.
01:31I do only have them as an honorable mention simply because they are a team that lost quite
01:39a few pieces in this offseason.
01:41And so I think the pressure to do well, even though I put their coach on the hot seat on
01:45the last preview episode that we did on Wednesday, I do think that this is a team that probably
01:50has a little bit of wiggle room.
01:52So, coming in at number 5, the team that needs it the most this year in the NHL, it's the
01:56Boston Bruins.
01:58The Bruins are a team that… long, proud history, all of those things.
02:05But it's been a minute since they were a Stanley Cup contender in, you know, the late
02:10rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and things like that.
02:14They have gone out and made some big acquisitions, acquisitions that people in Calgary are going
02:19to be very familiar with, right?
02:23When you bring in Nikita Sidorov, and you bring in Elias Lindholm, you are not doing
02:29that just so you have the long-term stability of this organization.
02:33You are wanting to win now, because those contracts, I hate to tell you, those contracts
02:37aren't going to look awesome in the next couple of years.
02:41And so when you have the Boston Bruins, who haven't been out of the second round since
02:46they lost to the St. Louis Blues back in 2019, I think there's some pressure on here.
02:54And I think that this is a team that is going to try to come out and really make a statement.
03:01Again, I think it gets ugly.
03:03We're also in the latter stages of Brad Marchand, and in the latter stages of…
03:08well, not latter stages, I guess, I was going to say a Pasternak, I don't think that's
03:11accurate, actually.
03:12But, Marchand, he is on the back part of his career, still playing very effectively, but
03:16still in the back part of his career.
03:17And so I think when you combine all of those forces, it leads to must-win territory for
03:23the Boston Bruins.
03:24So they are the team that needs it the fifth most, in my opinion, in the NHL.
03:28At four, it's the New York Rangers.
03:30I have said before, I like this Rangers team a lot.
03:32Panarin is legitimately one of my favorite players in the NHL, and Mika Zabinijad, you
03:36know, ditto.
03:39And so, like, there are pieces on this team that I really, really, really like.
03:45But, I do also have some concerns, again, about maybe a lack of playoff success.
03:52This has been one of the best teams in the league for a minute now.
03:56And it still hasn't really clicked in the way that they would want it to, if we're
04:01going to hold the Boston Bruins record against them.
04:04I guess the Rangers, they do make it to the conference finals here this last go-around.
04:07Actually, you know what?
04:08They've been in the conference finals two of the last three years.
04:10Maybe I'm… maybe I'm overstating the lack of playoff success.
04:14Because before that, they had the first-round loss against the Devils.
04:17They didn't qualify for the playoffs in 20 and 21.
04:21And actually, that was four years in a row they technically didn't qualify for the
04:25postseason.
04:26So, maybe I'm still stuck in that.
04:28But either way, their time is now.
04:31When you look at having one of the best goaltenders in the league, one of the best players in
04:34the league, in Artemi Panarin, one of the best defensemen in the league, in Adam Fox,
04:42then all of a sudden, this is a team that I think should be doing a little bit better
04:47than they have been, and needs to start to really build some things up here.
04:51So, I do think that there is a lot of pressure on the New York Rangers.
04:57The team with the third-most amount of pressure on them this year, the Vegas Golden Knights.
05:02Hey, Crash Andrews.
05:03How's it going?
05:04Thanks for joining the chat.
05:05And also, I believe we just had an influx of people here.
05:08So, yes, we're doing a bit of NHL right now, and then we're going to get to the
05:12fantasy football in just a second.
05:14At number three, it's the Vegas Golden Knights.
05:16They just won the Stanley Cup very, very recently.
05:18But, I feel like when you run a team the way Vegas does, there is kind of a proof of concept
05:24that is needed when you are constantly, hey, Toxic, how's it going?
05:29When you are constantly out there, moving players, and just, okay, well, we traded for
05:34this guy.
05:35He is the apple of our eye.
05:36This is so nice to see.
05:37By the way, we've just traded you to Buffalo, so deal with that.
05:41When you're constantly moving players in and out, and trying to circumvent things the
05:46way they have, which, again, totally legal, but when you do that, you do have to continue
05:51to win.
05:52Vegas did not do that last year.
05:53There's pressure on them to do it this year.
05:55At two, it's the Toronto Maple Leafs, because they're the Maple Leafs.
05:58But also, this is kind of the last dance for this group, which, again, I apologize for
06:04continuing to be one of the people who overuses that.
06:09And so, oh, thank you, Crash.
06:11I really appreciate that.
06:12I appreciate that quite a bit, thank you.
06:16For the Leafs, like, again, I said this is the last dance.
06:21This is not a team that has had the success, even close, to the Chicago Bulls.
06:26They are to losing what the Bulls were to winning, in the playoffs, anyway.
06:29But still, this is the last go-around, probably, for Matthews, Nylander, Marner, and Tavares,
06:35and Riley.
06:37I think we can all agree on that one, as well.
06:39So, I do think that there is quite a bit of pressure on Toronto this year to find a
06:44proof of concept.
06:45Listening to the CJ show, with CJ and Julian, yes, I still listen to some shows on that
06:51network.
06:52One.
06:53But, listening to them, you have the, they were talking about what would be the funniest
06:59thing to happen to your team, and I think they said for the Leafs, it's like, Marner
07:04comes out and has just a blowaway playoffs, and this team makes, like, the Eastern Conference
07:08Finals.
07:09That would be hilarious.
07:10That would be absolutely amazing.
07:11I would greatly appreciate that.
07:13I think it would be just a whole lot of fun if that was a thing that ended up happening
07:21with them.
07:22And so, I do think that there is quite a bit of pressure on the Toronto Maple Leafs to
07:27try to make something like that happen here this year.
07:31And the number one team with the most pressure on them is the Edmonton Oilers.
07:34They finally make it to the promised land within Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, and
07:42wouldn't you know it, they come up just a little bit short.
07:45They do, I still think, again, I know, toxic, I know, that the Oilers, you know, we don't
07:50want them to do it, but they kind of need to.
07:53When you have Dry Sidle, when you have McDavid, when you have a Dry Sidle extension coming
07:57up that is going to be expensive, and you have a McDavid contract that is coming up
08:01that's going to be expensive-er, there's a lot of pressure to win now.
08:07And when you give up on future assets like Holloway and Broberg in the way they did,
08:14the pressure is on in Edmonton.
08:15I don't think I'm breaking news with that, but the pressure is absolutely 100% on with
08:20the Edmonton Oilers.
08:22So they are the team that needs it the most in the NHL for the 2024-2025 season.