Sports Asked on September 13, 2020
The Montreal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – 1 in their best of 5 series of qualifying round of the 2019-20 Stanley Cup playoffs. The heavy underdogs pulled of the upset without scoring a single power play goal.
Which teams have managed to win a Stanley cup playoff series (at least a best of 5) without scoring any power play goals?
Scrapping off Hockey Reference, I found 61 instances where a team didn't score a Power Play Goal (PPG) since 1934. Hockey Reference only shows PPGs starting 1934, hence why the data starts from then. Also, I've only looked at series, where the winning team won 3 or more games to satisfy the best-of-5 or higher criteria of the question.
As of September 5th 2020, there have been 16 teams winning such playoff series (26.23% of all such occurence), 3 of which happened this season! Half of the series were best-of-7, other half were best-of-5. Here are the series:
Bonus: There have been 5 series where neither team scored a PPG:
Correct answer by alamoot on September 13, 2020
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