Talented teams with no Stanley Cup

The 1970 and 1972 Cup casts of Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito were gradually replaced by coach Don Cherry's roughneck "Lunch Pail A.C." With six holdovers from the Cup years (Terry O'Reilly, John Bucyk and Gerry Cheevers among them) joining Jean Ratelle and Brad Park, Cherry's B's fell in the Cup final to Montreal in 1977 and 1978. The nadir was a catastrophic too-many-men penalty with under two minutes left in Game 7 of 1979 semi-finals that led to the Canadiens' OT win.