What are we looking at here?

I'm a fairly new hockey fan, and building this visualization helped me get a sense for the history of the championship. (You know, so I can fake my way through conversations with real hockey fans.)

Just by mousing around for a bit, I can easily see that:

Montreal pretty much consistently dominated up until the 90's.

If you were a fan of ANYONE besides the Islanders or the Oilers in the 80's, you were pretty bummed out.

Ottawa had a HUGE dry spell (nevermind, they actually disbanded for 66 years).

What about '28, '35 and '05?

The loser of the 1928 series, and the winner of the 1935 series was the Montreal Maroons. They don't show up on the graphic because I didn't have a logo for them. Oops. Update: Some awesome guy emailed me the Maroons logo, they're now included.

In 2005, there were no Stanley Cup finals, because there was no hockey. :(

2011

Congrats, Boston!