The Last time A Canadian Team won the cup.

[Rapsfan]

Here are the notable events I can think of off the top of my head the last time a Canadian team won the cup.

- The Raptors didn't even exist
- Michael Jordan was still in his prime
- Space Jam 1 wasn't even out
- Jagr was still extremely young in the league
- Shaq finished his rookie year
- Blue Jays won the World Series b2b

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[Buck Naked]

Justin Bieber wasn't born.

 

[Jacob]

-it was 1993

 

[snipes]

A+ stream of consciousness

 

[Jacob]

A+ stream of consciousness

In the future years will be notated as BSJ or ASJ.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Without looking, I'd guess that less than a quarter of all current NHL players were born the last time a Canadian team won the Cup.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Internet didn't exist

Kurt Cobain and Tupac were making music

Apartheid was still a thing

Animation was drawn by hand still (Toy Story came out in 95).

OJ Simpson was known as a football player / actor

World Trade Center were the 2 tallest towers in New York City.

Putin wasn't prez of Russia

 

[snipes]

Internet didn't exist

Kurt Cobain and Tupac were making music

Apartheid was still a thing

Animation was drawn by hand still (Toy Story came out in 95).

OJ Simpson was known as a football player / actor

World Trade Center were the 2 tallest towers in New York City.

Putin wasn't prez of Russia

Didn’t Tim Berners-Lee invent it in 1989 building on previous systems with CERN?

 

[Soundwave]

Almost no one had internet, many households didn't even have a computer. Mobile phones looked like this and were generally reserved for business yuppies.

The 16-bit video game wars raged at their peak

Jurassic Park was about to come out and dominate the world

Michael Jordan beat the Phoenix Suns (who coincidentally are back in the NBA Finals this year for the first time since 1993) to threepeat

Forget Netflix, you went here if you wanted to watch a movie at home

 

[SoupNazi]

- Larry Bird hadn't yet been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- John Stockton and Karl Malone were making the Jazz competitive.
- Dennis Rodman hadn't started coloring his hair every shade of the rainbow yet.

 

[HisIceness]

This was the #1 song in both Canada and the United States for that week. A then-unknown Jennifer Lopez was in this video.

This was for me anyways one of the first "90s" 90s songs, as in it didn't have an "80s" feel to it.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Didn’t Tim Berners-Lee invent it in 1989 building on previous systems with CERN?

Probbaly.

I guess I should say it wasn't widely adopted yet.

 

[jetsforever]

Weird how all of the notable world events then involved basketball

 

[WaW]

Notable financial realities that have absolutely made it harder for Canadian teams to win the cup:

- the emergence of NYR, Detroit, and Colorado as really big spenders, and NJ and Dallas as big-ish spenders due to the success they were having, coupled with a declining Canadian dollar from the early 90s until the early-mid 00s. Toronto was the only Canadian team that could compete with this spending.

- a lockout and complete change of rules through the salary cap, that completely negated the strengthened Canadian dollar of the time, thus putting Canadian teams at substantial disadvantages because of very low cap figures since the cap came into effect.

It's still an anomaly that Canada hasn't crowned a cup champion since then when on average they should every 4-5 seasons, but there are undisputable financial reasons that have contributed tremendously to the drought.

 

[HisIceness]

Weird how all of the notable world events then involved basketball

Well the OP is a big Raptors fan

 

[SavesEmNot]

The fourth generation Corvette was in production (the current one is the eighth generation).

The Ford Mustang looked like this:



Also, 1993 is also the earliest year I can distinctly remember it being.

 

[DearDiary]

The universe was created after I gained consciousness, so none of things actually happened as I wasn't born yet. The cup belongs to the US as memories of Canada winning do not exist to me and I have not experienced the event first hand

 

[Soundwave]

Weird how all of the notable world events then involved basketball

Well I mean at the time Michael Jordan was probably the most famous person on the planet, you didn't really need to be a big basketball fan to recognize him.

 

[SotasicA]

Here are the notable events I can think of off the top of my head the last time a Canadian team won the cup.

- The Raptors didn't even exist
- Michael Jordan was still in his prime
- Space Jam 1 wasn't even out
- Jagr was still extremely young in the league
- Shaq finished his rookie year
- Blue Jays won the World Series b2b

When you put it like that, it seems like it wasn't really such a long time ago. The Raptors are a new franchise. Space Jam's a relatively new movie. Jagr is a current generation player.

That was like a decade ago, max. Right? Right?

 

[Eisen]

Czechoslovakia still existed
The Maastricht treaty becomes law

 

[JianYang]

1993 was probably the greatest nhl season of my lifetime. There were so many great stories, and so many stars at the same time. 94 was a good season too, but I feel like the product took a hit after the 94 lockout.

This was prime nhl.

 

[Mickey Marner]

The 2021 Conn Smythe winner wasn't ever born yet.

 

[JianYang]

Notable financial realities that have absolutely made it harder for Canadian teams to win the cup:

- the emergence of NYR, Detroit, and Colorado as really big spenders, and NJ and Dallas as big-ish spenders due to the success they were having, coupled with a declining Canadian dollar from the early 90s until the early-mid 00s. Toronto was the only Canadian team that could compete with this spending.

- a lockout and complete change of rules through the salary cap, that completely negated the strengthened Canadian dollar of the time, thus putting Canadian teams at substantial disadvantages because of very low cap figures since the cap came into effect.

It's still an anomaly that Canada hasn't crowned a cup champion since then when on average they should every 4-5 seasons, but there are undisputable financial reasons that have contributed tremendously to the drought.

It's turned out to be a a bit of a curse. There's actually been 6 finals appearances since 93, which is around what you would expect, but they have lost them all, including 4 game 7s.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I miss pointing out that the Ottoman Empire existed when the Cubs last won before they did in 2016.

 

[alko]

Czechoslovakia still existed

Wrong.