How many games does a player have to play during the season in order to have name on Cup?
June 19, 2010
I believe it was something like 30. I only ask this because Bolland was hurt most of the year and didn’t have enough games. I know they(TV) said since he played in a finals game his name would be on the Cup.Does that only mean in the Finals or appearing in any playoff game? I ask this because a few Blackhawks fell into this category.
41 or 1 single playoffs game =)
41
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Real canadian boys play a full 82 games!
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From what i have been told, it is over half of the NHL regular season games (41+) or if you played or dressed as an active player in just one Stanley Cup ‘Final’ game, not a playoff game! You will find a lot of players in NHL’s past to have this happened which is unfortunate. The 1993 Stanley Cup finals brings this situation upfront. Jacques Demers, head coach of the habs, wanted to give Donald Dufresne the chance to have his name on the cup, but Dufresne having played part time most of the season and not in the playoffs, Demers asked Rob Ramage to sit out game 5 so he can add Dufresne to the roster only knowing Dufresne was not coming back next season. To be honest i don’t recall all to well but i think Dufresne played only one shift which was like the last minute of the game. But in another situation Oleg Petrov played almost 30 games for Montreal that year and played a couple of playoff games in ’93 for the habs but did not play in the finals so unfortunately he could not get his name on the cup, but oddly i was told he was still entitled to get a stanley cup ring!
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41 or 1 single playoffs game =)
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