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. 

[The Sicatoka]

@Shawn-O at least one of them know who Stamkos and Sergachev play for ... 

[stoneySIOUX]

And Martin Necas 

[The Sicatoka]

McDavid EDM
Kucherov TBL
MacKinnon COL
Necas COL
Guentzel TBL
Dreiseitl EDM
Sukuki MON
Eichel VGK
Robertson DAL

Bouchard EDM
Makar COL
Hughes MIN
Dahlin BUF
Hutson MON
Raddysh TBL

[Goon]

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

Makar - COL
Toews (COL)

Gostisbehere - CAR
Hedman (TBL)

Hughes - MIN
Raddysh - BUF  

 

 

 

[tnt]

1 hour ago, Goon said:

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

Makar - COL
Toews (COL)

Gostisbehere - CAR
Hedman (TBL)

Hughes - MIN
Raddysh - BUF  

 

 

 

Are you picking Rantanen for Dallas, and Necas for both Colorado and Carolina? And Raddysh for Tampa, not Buffalo?

[tnt]

MacKinnon - Col

Necas - Col

Eichel - Vegas

McDavid - Edm

Kaprizov- Min

Boldy - Min

Aho  - Car

Kucherov - Tampa

Guentzel - Tampa

 

Hughes - Min

Gostisbehere - Car

Bouchard - Edm

Malinski - Col

Makar - Col

Raddysh - Tampa

 

[Shawn-O]

22 minutes ago, tnt said:

Are you picking Rantanen for Dallas, and Necas for both Colorado and Carolina? And Raddysh for Tampa, not Buffalo?

Relax.  

[Shawn-O]

ChatGPT corrected

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

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

[Shawn-O]

32 minutes ago, tnt said:

Are you picking Rantanen for Dallas, and Necas for both Colorado and Carolina? And Raddysh for Tampa, not Buffalo?

That was pretty bad though.  

[Shawn-O]

 

Grok with corrections 

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)

 

•  

[tnt]

18 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

Relax.  

Just wanted Goon to put in the correct picks before it starts tomorrow.

[Shawn-O]

On 4/15/2026 at 2:42 PM, Blackheart said:

I guess you needed someone to finish last...

[petey23]

Well, I wanted to run it back but figured only rolling with 7, since the other 8 are booking tee times wouldn't be a good idea, here goes nothing.

Last year I was pretty confident in which teams would advance through the playoffs....not so much this year.

Forwards-

Thompson-Buffalo

MacKinnon-Colorado

McDavid-Edmonton

Stutzle-Ottawa

Eichel-Vegas

Kucherov-Tampa

Guentzel-Tampa

Karpizov-Minnesota

Boldu-Minnesota

 

Defense-

Dahlin-Buffalo

Makar-Colorado

Bouchard-Edmonton

Sanderson-Ottawa

Raddysh-Tampa

Hughes-Minnesota