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While the Montreal Canadian's are not "my team" it's hard to deny that they are the best Hockey franchise in the modern hockey era. Imagine this... the Canadian's have won 25% of all the Stanley Cup's awarded!

24 Stanley Cups (1916, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1944, 1946, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1993)

8 Conference championships (1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1992–93)
Presidents' Trophies 0

22 Division championships (1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2007–08)
 
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Not sure if you mean by year (like the 88 Oilers) or franchise through the history of the sport, but I'm treating it like the latter.

Football: GB Packers
Baseball: Yankees
Hockey: Canadiens
Basketball: Lakers (barely ahead of the Celtics with the Spurs a close third)
 
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Knight said:
While the Montreal Canadian's are not "my team" it's hard to deny that they are the best Hockey franchise in the modern hockey era. Imagine this... the Canadian's have won 25% of all the Stanley Cup's awarded!

24 Stanley Cups (1916, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1944, 1946, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1993)

8 Conference championships (1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1992–93)
Presidents' Trophies 0

22 Division championships (1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2007–08)
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I agree. They may be the greatest franchise of all time if more people cared about hockey.
 
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Squishes said:
Not sure if you mean by year (like the 88 Oilers) or franchise through the history of the sport, but I'm treating it like the latter.

Football: GB Packers
Baseball: Yankees
Hockey: Canadiens
Basketball: Lakers (barely ahead of the Celtics with the Spurs a close third)
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What Squishes said.
 
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Knight said:
While the Montreal Canadian's are not "my team" it's hard to deny that they are the best Hockey franchise in the modern hockey era. Imagine this... the Canadian's have won 25% of all the Stanley Cup's awarded!
24 Stanley Cups (1916, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1944, 1946, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1993)
8 Conference championships (1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1992–93)
Presidents' Trophies 0
22 Division championships (1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2007–08)
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I certainly agree Knight. Their dominance rivals the Yankees.
 
kmoney

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Baseball - The evil empire, Yankees

Hockey - Canadiens

Those are the easy 2.

Football - Packers, but Pittsburgh is close behind.

Basketball - Lakers or Celtics. :idunno:
 
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Knight said:
While the Montreal Canadian's are not "my team" it's hard to deny that they are the best Hockey franchise in the modern hockey era. Imagine this... the Canadian's have won 25% of all the Stanley Cup's awarded!
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Not only that, it wasn't just a run of a time like Dallas in the 90's. They did it over decades and decades. It is hard not to put the Yankees first.
 
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Greatest by sport...:think:

Football: Packers or Steelers depending on whether you begin with the Super Bowl era or count earlier championships in the lesser league.

Baseball: Yankees

Hockey: I'm not qualified to render an opinion.

Basketball: Celtics. Ahead on the count and the longest uninterrupted run in any professional sport's history. The Lakers are next, but never produced the dominance of the 59-66 Boston run.
 
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Basketball: Celtics. Ahead on the count and the longest uninterrupted run in any professional sport's history. The Lakers are next, but never produced the dominance of the 59-66 Boston run.
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I could have picked the Celtics over the Lakers pretty easily, but the reason I didn't is I feel the Lakers will never go through a drought again because they have a star power that the Celtics don't. When the championship count is more or less a wash, reputation and expectation of excellence tip the scales in favor of the Lakers for me.
 
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Brazil National Futbol team is the most successful national futbol team in the history of the FIFA World Cup, with five championships. They are also the most successful team in the FIFA Confederations Cup with three titles. In continental level, Brazil has won eight Copa América titles, the third most titles won, after Argentina and Uruguay who have won 14 titles each.

Oh, and you should see their women......in the words of Homer Simpson when he thinks of a doughnut - oooooouuuuhhhhhhhh. Take a walk on a beach of Copacabana, you'll know what I mean. Errrrrr, back to futbo.....I mean "soccer".....no other team comes close.
 
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Town Heretic said:
Basketball: Celtics. Ahead on the count and the longest uninterrupted run in any professional sport's history. The Lakers are next, but never produced the dominance of the 59-66 Boston run.
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Boston has 1 more championship. A much better win PCT in the Finals

What is more impressive....
17 rings but the majority coming in a huge clump early on
or
16 rings that are spread out a little bit more


LA has many more conference championships (but, more Finals losses than Boston). More division titles.

LA seems to have had more sustained success than Boston. Boston had absolute domination for a decade.

:idunno:
 
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Oh, and you should see their women......in the words of Homer Simpson when he thinks of a doughnut - oooooouuuuhhhhhhhh. Take a walk on a beach of Copacabana, you'll know what I mean. Errrrrr, back to futbo.....I mean "soccer".....no other team comes close.
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Agreed. I've been all over the world and no country's women have lit the fires below deck as much as Brazilian women (followed by Hungarians).
 
The Berean

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How good have the Yankees been? Below are how Yankees stack up as a franchise and the next best team.

Franchise Winning Percentage
.568- New York Yankees
.538- NY/SF Giants

World Series titles
27- New York Yankees
10- St. Louis Cardinals

Pennants
40- New York Yankees
22- Brooklyn/LA dodgers

Games over .500
2322- New York Yankees
1484- NY/SF Giants

1949-53 Yankees won 5 straight World Series
1936-39 Yankees won 4 straight World Series
1998-00 Yankees won 3 straight World Series (and 4 in 5 years)

-Only one other team has won 3 straight World Series (1972-74 Oakland A's)

- From 1949-1964 (16 years) the Yankees played in 14 World Series.
 
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