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Luckiest jerseys in the NHL’s long and storied history

By Bruin Belisle

DENVER, COLORADO - JUNE 9: Ray Bourque #77 of the Colorado Avalanche lifts the cup with Joe Sakic #19 after the Colorado Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The Avalanche take the series 4-3. (Photo by B Bennett/Getty Images)
DENVER, COLORADO - JUNE 9: Ray Bourque #77 of the Colorado Avalanche lifts the cup with Joe Sakic #19 after the Colorado Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The Avalanche take the series 4-3. (Photo by B Bennett/Getty Images) /
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19 Jun 1999: The Dallas Stars pose for a team photo with the Stanely Cup trophy as they celebrate the win over the Buffalo Sabres at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. The Dallas Stars defeated the Sabres 2-1 in the third overtime. Mandatory Credit: Elsa Hasch /Allsport
19 Jun 1999: The Dallas Stars pose for a team photo with the Stanely Cup trophy as they celebrate the win over the Buffalo Sabres at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. The Dallas Stars defeated the Sabres 2-1 in the third overtime. Mandatory Credit: Elsa Hasch /Allsport /

4. 1999 Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars’ one and only Stanley Cup came in 1999, in a triple overtime game 6 on a goal that should have been disallowed. It doesn’t get much more lucky than that.

Poor, poor Buffalo. This team just can’t seem to get away from hardship and sorrow in both their NHL and NFL franchises. The city of Buffalo was finally recovering from their early-90’s Super Bowl losses when they came to face the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup finals. The Sabres were stacked and this city was due for a win!

In the sixth period of game 6, Brett Hull would score the goal that won Dallas the series and the Stanley Cup. His foot was entirely in the goaltenders crease, which was in violation of the NHL rules at that time. The entire city of Dallas was lucky that this wasn’t reversed. To this day, this goal is brought up any time there is a controversial call in sports.

That game continues to live on in infamy. If you bring up the Stars’ Stanley Cup win around anyone not from the Dallas area, someone will bring up the “asterisk” talk. Should they have actually won that game? Was the game rigged? Should the goal have been disallowed? None of it matters anymore but you best believe it did at the time.

Still, the Stanley Cup is engraved with the names of those Dallas players, some of which are hall-of-famers now, such as Mike Modano, Brett Hull and Ed Balfour. A bit of luck in the way the puck bounced in front of Hull led to the NHL’s most infamous Stanley Cup winning goal, but a Stanley Cup winning goal nonetheless.

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