NHL’s Longest Cup Final Droughts Still Sting Like Fresh Cuts

The Stanley Cup Final has a way of exposing which franchises can live with pressure and which ones keep tripping over the same old scars. This look at the league’s longest droughts is less about nostalgia and more about the ugly math of how hard it is to get back to June when every mistake gets magnified. The teams on this list know the game changes in the spring, and the ones stuck longest in the wilderness have usually learned that the hard way.