Sorry, Bucky - after reading what I posted, I was probably lashing out in frustration. Pretty much overreacted. But I
am sick and tired of people on these boards (usually Canadians) cr@pping all over my hometown team to make a misguided point.
Personally, I'm very much opposed to contraction (doesn't make much sense legally or practically), but the business reality of the situation in the NHL is that low-revenue Canadian teams like Calgary and Edmonton would be contracted well before Tampa Bay would. And that would be a real tragedy for Canada as well as the NHL...
...I wonder sometimes if that's really what the pro-contraction people want. Because that's far more likely to happen than all of the southern teams falling off the face of the earth.
(And, sorry about the math snafu - I simply forgot about the Habs' Cup victory in '93. In my haste to post, I thought that the '89-90 Oilers team was the most recent Canadian squad to win it all...
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