Talk:List of NHL franchise post-season appearance streaks

Montreal Canadiens Phantom Streak
I've added back the note about the Montreal Canadiens having a streak of 46 years if it wasn't for that pesky 1969-70 NHL season. Although being an avid Toronto Maple Leafs fan it pains me greatly to recognize any achievement by the despised Montreal Habs team, I felt it was noteworthy for 2 reasons :
 * The unique way in which they were eliminated - to be tied for the last playoff spot and subsequently be eliminated by goal differential *and* by only 2 goals is a tough way to go out.
 * To only miss 1 year out of 46 - that is a very long time, and is almost 1.6x longer than the longest streak of all-time. Although they didn't make it that year, they came *this* close to putting together a streak that would (probably) never be broken. Eric Peebles (talk) 15:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I also believe they pulled their goal-tender early in the last game of the season and used a sixth attacker in order to score as many offensive goals as possible. The game was lost so it did not matter how many goals were scored against them, it only mattered how many goals they scored.  As it turned out, they fell 2 goals short. You stated they lost due to goal differential, but I believe they missed the playoffs due to less goals scored.Juve2000 (talk) 01:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

For the non-North American dummies
Could someone please add an introductory sentence telling us what a post-season appearance streak actually is ? Far Canal (talk) 00:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Other relevant information
I think that it would be appropriate here to list some or all of these related streaks: (1) consecutive Division titles; (2) consecutive 1st overall finishes; (3) consecutive Stanley Cup Finals appearances, or (4) any other, similar sort of thing you can think of. For some of those, there might not be streaks that are long enough to be worth researching it and making a table, but I daresay some of them would be interesting data. MrArticleOne (talk) 03:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: changes
First, putting the all-time streaks up top only makes sense; you always highlight the real records over the lesser "active" streaks. Whether streak articles in other sports are handled differently is up to the Wikiprojects for those sports; since I don't edit football articles, say, as a rule, it wouldn't make much sense for me to barge over there to tell them how they should be editing. Secondly, the Canadiens' footnote was both unnecessary and inappropriate. There are no footnotes on any other team discussing in detail (or at all) of the circumstances of how their streaks ended; that the failure of the 1970 Canadiens to make the playoffs had unusual circumstances is reflected in the appropriate team and season articles. That the Canadiens' streak would have been longer if they had not missed the playoffs is both obvious and pertains to other teams as well.  RGTraynor  05:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I disagree. I am not a Montreal fan so I have no personal "rooting interest" in it, and even I find the circumstances of Montreal's situation so remarkable that it is worth mentioning here. There is room for the exercise of such editorial judgment on Wikipedia. MrArticleOne (talk) 22:49, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Streak updates
The notes included within the article explicitly state not to update the current active streaks until the end of the regular season, so as to complete an update all at once. However, in the past several hours, there have been edits to update the Detroit Red Wings' streak. It should be noted that none of the other teams who have clinched playoff berths as of March 26th have been updated. A lock on the article may be needed to prevent further attempts to change, as based on the criteria, the article should not be updated before 8 April 2012, 06:00 UTC (2:00 AM EDT); this would allow for all teams to have completed play on the final day of the regular season, 7 April (Kings at Sharks is the final scheduled game at 10:30 EDT, and it would be reasonable to expect the game completed by 2 AM). Kyojikasshu (talk) 15:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All the spots have been clinched. I think it's safe to put them in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.198.253 (talk) 14:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, realized that, just got around to checking this afternoon... the main point being everybody getting updated at the same time, so that the data remains consistent. Kyojikasshu (talk) 21:49, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and updated the active appearance streaks now that all spots have been clinched as of 23:00 EDT on 27 April 2013. Note that someone still updated the Red Wings' and Sharks' streaks early, despite the note. Kyojikasshu (talk) 03:14, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

The Red Wings' active streak got updated early again this year. I've reverted the edit, since the rest of the streaks need to be updated as well, and there's still one position not clinched yet. Kyojikasshu (talk) 20:10, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Countries' win streak
Montreal won the cup in 1993, so I've adjusted the year on that one. How this mistake was made I'll never know; oh well. Mingmingla (talk) 22:28, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

This is a ridiculous statistic to post on wikipedia. There are so many more American teams than Canadian teams and more than half of all NHL players are Canadian. Canadian teams are at a disadvantage since their fan base is so inelastic they can lose every year and still make a ton of money and sell all their tickets. None of this is stated in the article.

A better statistic would be to state the win streak for teams where more than half their players were Canadians, and the win streak for teams where more than half their players were Americans. (I forgot, there are no teams where more than half of their players are Americans) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.94.0.199 (talk) 17:05, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Post-season series win streaks - description does not match table
Currently, the description of this table reads: "Since the first round of the playoffs consists of 16 teams in 8 series, there will always be 8 teams in this list, the winners of those series." However, there are only 4 teams currently listed, due to 4 of the winning teams from 2017 failing to qualify. As currently worded, the description is at odds with the table.

Either the table needs to be reverted to reflect the 2017 playoffs until after the first round is completed, or the description needs to be rewritten to reflect that teams that won in a previous season are eliminated from the list if they fail to qualify for the most recent season. Kyojikasshu (talk) 19:51, 11 April 2018 (UTC)