NHL: What is each team's luckiest jersey of all-time?

Luckiest jerseys in the NHL’s long and storied history

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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Hockey -Daniel Sedin and Henrik Seden of the Vancouver Canucks on December 2, 2000 (Photo by Sporting News/Sporting News via Getty Images) /

26. Vancouver Canucks

A perennial powerhouse for the better part of the 2000’s, the Vancouver Canucks were Canada’s San Jose Sharks. A Pacific team near the top of the standings that could never get far in the playoffs. Then, in 2011, they did.

Up two games to nothing in the Stanley Cup final and heading home to Vancouver, their series against the Boston Bruins was all but over. The Bruins went into Vancouver and laid a 8-1 shellacking on the Canucks. Vancouver would lose both game’s 3 and 4 at home, evening the series and making it a best of three.

The Canucks went back to being confident again after a Game 5 win, when star goaltender Roberto Luongo boasted about a save on a crucial goal against the Bruins that he would have made “easily” (He admitted regret about making the comment after the next game, a 4-0 loss to the Bruins in Game 6).

The Bruins won game 7 handily and the Canucks were 0 for three in Stanley Cup finals appearances. The city of Vancouver didn’t handle the loss well. The usually relaxed city turned into a modern day hell as criminals, then fans, began to riot, loot and destroy the city after the game 7 loss. It wasn’t a pretty sight.

The hockey Gods frowned upon the Canucks after the incident and they haven’t even sniffed the Cup finals since. After retiring Daniel and Henrik Sedin in 2018, the team began their rebuild. Drafting the Sedins would end up being the luckiest thing this franchise has had since Pavel Bure, but still, no hardware in the beautiful city of Vancouver.

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