<Tr> <Td> 1926 </Td> <Td> Montreal Maroons (NHL) (1, 1--0) </Td> <Td> Eddie Gerard </Td> <Td> 3--1 </Td> <Td> Victoria Cougars (WHL) (2, 1--1) </Td> <Td> Lester Patrick </Td> <Td> Nels Stewart (2: 50, second) </Td> </Tr> <P> The WHL folded in 1926, and its assets were bought by the NHL . This left the NHL as the only league left competing for the Cup . Other leagues and clubs have issued challenges, but from that year forward, no non-NHL team has played for it, leading it to become the de facto championship trophy of the NHL . In 1947, the NHL reached an agreement with trustees P.D. Ross and Cooper Smeaton to grant control of the Cup to the NHL, allowing the league itself to reject challenges from other leagues that may have wished to play for the Cup . A 2006 Ontario Superior Court case found that the trustees had gone against Lord Stanley's conditions in the 1947 agreement . The NHL has agreed to allow other teams to play for the Cup should the league not be operating, as was the case in the 2004--05 NHL lockout . </P> <P> Since 1927, the league's playoff format, deciding which teams advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals, has changed multiple times . In some systems that were previously used, playoff teams were seeded regardless of division or conference . From 1942 to 1967, the Cup was competed for by the league's six teams, also known as the Original Six . After the 1967 NHL Expansion, the Stanley Cup was competed for by the winners of each conference . Since 1982, the Finals have been played between the league's conference playoff champions . </P> <Dl> <Dd> Numbers in parentheses in the table indicate the number of times that team has appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals, as well as each respective teams' Stanley Cup Finals record to date . </Dd> </Dl>

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