No city with NBA, NHL teams has done this in 74 seasons. Is this the year for a title sweep?

South Florida, you’re in position to make “winter sports” history.

This is the 75th season in which the NBA and the NHL will both crown champions, and never has the same city or market won both the NBA championship and the Stanley Cup in the same season.

The Miami Heat finished first in the NBA East, thereby seeded to reach The Finals, and is playing the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round of the playoffs. The Florida Panthers finished with the best record in the NHL, claiming the franchise’s first Presidents’ Trophy, and are playing the Washington Capitals in the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

There are currently 14 markets in North America with franchises in both the NHL and the NBA. Seven qualified teams in both sports this postseason with four the NBA teams eliminated in the first round. Still alive are Boston’s Celtics and Bruins, Dallas’ Mavericks and Stars plus the Miami area’s teams.

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If the Panthers and Heat so much as reach their respective league championship rounds, that would mark only the ninth time that one market has done that. In the previous eight instances, the first participant won four times only to see the second one lose.

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The most recent “double finalist” was the New York metropolitan area in 2003 with the New Jersey Devils and the New Jersey Nets.

The Devils were seeded No. 2 in the East, upset No. 1 Ottawa in the East Finals and defeated Anaheim, a long shot at No. 7 in the West, in seven games to win the Cup on June 9. At that point, the Nets trailed San Antonio in The Finals two games to one.

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