from Jonathan Bombulie of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,

It's not a good year to be a team with lots of postseason experience in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Over the past three years, counting regular season and playoffs, no team has played more games than the Penguins with 307. Nashville is next with 295, followed by San Jose with 285.

After the Winnipeg Jets knocked out the Predators with a 5-1 victory in Game 7 of the Central Division finals Thursday night, all three teams have been sent home for the summer. San Jose was ousted by Vegas in six games in the Pacific Division finals and the Penguins, of course, lost to Washington.

Of the four teams left in the hunt for the Stanley Cup, only the Capitals made the playoffs last season. The Jets and Tampa Bay Lightning did not qualify and the Golden Knights didn't exist.

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