Thread by @SlavaMalamud

For the 5th time in a row, and for the 10th time out of the last 13, the Stanley Cup is awarded to a team in white.
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100% of Russian goaltenders who have won the Stanley Cup as starters were playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
This translates to the Vratarski Coefficient of 1.000.
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Andrei Vasilevskiy has now set the all-time record for Russian Stanley Cup-winning goalies, with 11 letters in his last name. The previous record, 10 letters, belonged to Nikolai Khabibulin.
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100% of Nikitas who have won the Stanley Cup have played for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Kucherov becomes the inaugural member of the Nikita Stanleyovich Club. A fellow Lightning player Alexeev missed it by one season in the early 2000s.
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50% of the Cups won by a team with a singular nickname since 1915 belong to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The other 50%, to the Colorado Avalanche. The Minnesota Wild and, soon, the Seattle Kraken are cordially invited to feel a singular kind of shame.
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