Talk:Presidents' Trophy
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[edit] "NHL League Champions"
The League chose unfortunate terminology when they picked this particular language to allow teams to display in their arenas. The article has been edited to make note of the Stanley Cup Champion "technically" being the league champion all those years. Is this entirely accurate? I took the League's choice of language to be highlighting the fine distinction between winning the NHL "League" Championship (the one the league as an institutional entity can award) and the Stanley Cup Championship, which is in some sense external to the NHL (since it predates the league's inception and officially has its own trustees). I realize this is operating at a relatively high level of abstraction and in reality may not make much of a difference, but I am just questioning whether we know enough about this theoretical concern to say with confidence that the Stanley Cup winners those years were "technically" the league champion.
