Stanley Cup Game: 2026 Edition

[The Sicatoka]

Welcome to the 2026 game. 

The rules are the same as 2025:  

• pick nine (9) forwards
• pick six (6) defensemen
• straight POINTS, not goals, POINTS (G + A) scored by your fifteen players in the four rounds to the Cup determines winner
• no more than five (5) players from a single NHL team on your team 

Teams must be in before first playoff puck drops.

[The Sicatoka]

Game is open to all.

Attention past contestants:

@stoneySIOUX @tnt @iluvdebbies @andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!! @petey23 @Goon @Shawn-O @farce poobah @MafiaMan @cberkas @90siouxfan @Blackheart 

[stoneySIOUX]

MacKinnon - COL
Necas - COL
Nelson - COL
McDavid - EDM 
Draisaitl - EDM
Aho - CAR
Kaprizov - MIN
Kucherov - TB
Guentzel - TB

Makar - COL
Bouchard - EDM
Gostisbehere - CAR
Sanderson - OTT
Hughes - MIN
Dahlin - BUF

[Blackheart]

1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:

Game is open to all.

Attention past contestants:

@stoneySIOUX @tnt @iluvdebbies @andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!! @petey23 @Goon @Shawn-O @farce poobah @MafiaMan @cberkas @90siouxfan @Blackheart 

I guess you needed someone to finish last...

[Shawn-O]

Time permitting I’m going to feed the rules to Grok and ChatGPT, and make one up based on my own research first.  Claude won’t be invited. That’s Anthropic, they are all about enterprise software. The ones coming for the desk/work from home crowd. 

[Shawn-O]

Here’s ChatGPT and really mine after a pleasant conversation. 
 

FORWARDS (9)
Nathan MacKinnon (COL)
Mikko Rantanen (COL)
Sebastian Aho (CAR)
Andrei Svechnikov (CAR)
Martin Necas (CAR)
Nikita Kucherov (TBL)
Brayden Point (TBL)
Steven Stamkos (TBL)
Matt Boldy (MIN)

DEFENSEMEN (6)
Devon Toews (COL)
Bowen Byram (COL)
Brent Burns (CAR)
Victor Hedman (TBL)
Mikhail Sergachev (TBL)
Quinn Hughes (MIN)

[Shawn-O]

Free version of Grok similar prompts: 

Forwards (9):

Nathan MacKinnon (COL)

Nikita Kucherov (TBL)

Martin Nečas (COL)

Jake Guentzel (TBL)

Sebastian Aho (CAR)

Brandon Hagel (TBL)

Andrei Svechnikov (CAR)

Seth Jarvis (CAR)

Matt Boldy (MIN)

Defensemen (6):

Cale Makar (COL)

Quinn Hughes (MIN)

Darren Raddysh (TBL)

Shayne Gostisbehere (CAR)

K’Andre Miller (CAR)

Sam Malinski (COL)