The best Stanley Cup Final games of all time

The grueling trek of the Stanley Cup playoffs is one of sports’ greatest events. It gets even better when the Stanley Cup is on the line. There are too many memorable moments to count throughout the history of the Stanley Cup Final, and more specifically, notable games.

Here’s our list of the 25 best games in Stanley Cup Final history.

A Chicago native, Jeff Mezydlo has professionally written about sports, entertainment and pop culture for parts of four decades. He was an integral member of award-winning sports sections at The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster, Ind.) and Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette, where he covered the NFL, PGA, LPGA, NCAA basketball, football and golf, Olympics and high school athletics. Jeff most recently spent 12 years in the editorial department at STATSPerform, where he also oversaw coverage of the English Premier League. A graduate of Northern Illinois University, Jeff’s work has also appeared on such sites at Yahoo!, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated and NBA.com. However, if Jeff could do it again, he’d attend Degrassi Junior High, Ampipe High School and Grand Lakes University