Indeed, the teams with the two best records reached the Cup semifinals (or conference final) the same time in just six of these past 36 tournaments.
So it is first-seed Jannik Sinner going up against second-seed Carlos Alcaraz for the Wimbledon men’s singles title in a dream confrontation that has been anticipated since the tournament started two weeks ago.
And I was thinking about the last time the teams with the two best records faced off in the Stanley Cup Final, and do you have any idea when that was?
It was, in fact, 36 years ago when first-seed Calgary defeated second-seed Montreal in 1989 in six games.
