14. 1990s Buffalo Bills
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You know the names. Jim Kelly. Thurman Thomas. Bruce Smith. Andre Reed. All-Pros and all-time greats played for those Buffalo Bills teams in the early 1990s, squads that failed to win the Super Bowl a single occasion. The closest any of those teams came to winning it all occurred at Super Bowl XXV when the Bills were facing off against what was, on paper, an over-matched New York Giants side. New York held possession of the football for over 40 minutes, keeping the high-powered Buffalo offense on the sideline for much of the contest. The Bills went on to lose the game on a last-second field goal that sailed – you guessed it – wide right.
13. 1999-2000 St. Louis Blues
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The 1999-2000 St. Louis Blues had Hart Trophy winner Chris Pronger on the roster, and Pronger may not have even been the best player on that team when you consider that Pavol Demitra and Pierre Turgeon also played for the Blues that season. St. Louis not making it through the postseason to the Stanley Cup Final would have been surprising enough. That the top seed out of the Western Conference would not even get past the No. 8 San Jose Sharks in the first round of the Playoffs was, at the time, unimaginable. The Sharks paid no attention to such talk, beating St. Louis is seven games to shock the NHL world.
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