Only one team can win the Stanley Cup each season. And for these five teams, their chances at winning the Stanley Cup at the end of the 2023-24 NHL season are practically zero.
Of course, anything can happen in hockey. We’ve seen many examples of teams making incredible turnarounds over the course of a season to make a deep playoff run all the way to the end. However, those stories are few and far between and there are a handful of teams this season you shouldn’t get your hopes up about.
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Whether it be that these teams are committing to a full rebuild or that they have finished their window of competing opportunity, these are five NHL teams that you can count on not winning the 2024 Stanley Cup Final.