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EA Sports playoff simulator predicts Toronto Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup

Colton Pankiw
Colton Pankiw
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Apr 19 2025, 5:10 pm
EA Sports playoff simulator predicts Toronto Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup
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Canada’s Stanley Cup drought will come to an end this year, according to the EA Sports playoff simulator.

The last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup was the Montreal Canadiens back in 1993. Over that time, several Canadian clubs, most recently the Edmonton Oilers, have reached the Cup Final, but have come up just short of the ultimate goal. With five Canadian teams in the playoffs this year, however, there is hope that this can be the year that drought ends.

Every year before the playoffs begin, EA Sports runs a simulator to predict who will come out on top.

This year, they not only have an Eastern Conference Final between two Canadian teams in the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, but have the Leafs winning it all in a seven-game series versus the Colorado Avalanche.

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The simulator is predicting both the Oilers and Ottawa Senators to be eliminated in the opening round. They have the Presidents’ Trophy winning Winnipeg Jets getting by the St. Louis Blues before losing to the Colorado Avalanche in the second round.

The simulator is also predicting that the Leafs will not only get by both the Senators and Florida Panthers in six games, but will sweep the Habs in the Eastern Conference Final.

The Stanley Cup Playoffs are set to get underway Saturday afternoon, with the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars kicking things off, before the Jets and Blues face one another later in the evening.

As for the Leafs, their series versus the Senators will begin on Sunday evening. It marks the first time these two have gone head-to-head in the playoffs since 2004. The Leafs have been victorious in all four of their franchise playoff series against the Sens to date.

Should this prediction hold true, it would snap a 58-year Stanley Cup drought for the Maple Leafs, who last won it all in 1967. There is still a tough road ahead, but this prediction can perhaps increase the confidence of Leafs fans who have had to endear some frustrating postseason runs in recent years.

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