Winning the Stanley Cup two seasons in a row is a rare feat these days. Before the Penguins beat the Predators in six games, the previous team to take back-to-back Cups were the 1998 Red Wings, a fact beaten to death by writers and broadcasters ever since the final started. As much as we may hate them, that deserves a ton of respect (and if you see an irritable, bearded man stalking the streets of Eastern Pennsylvania today, it might be our own Mark).
But a generation or two ago, it wasn’t unusual for a team to win two (or more) championships in consecutive years.