The success rate is poor, especially lately.
Like zero percent.
As in none of the past 16 teams that have raised the Stanley Cup in a given season have been able to do it again the following year.
If there is indeed such a thing as a Stanley Cup hangover, it’s not curable with coffee, a cold shower and greasy breakfast.
“The challenge is great,” Bryan Trottier said Monday at the Penguins alumni golf outing, “but that’s the fun of it, the anticipation and recognizing you know what it takes to win, realizing there’s a whole bunch of other teams that love knocking you off.