The Last time A Canadian Team won the cup.

[Eisen]

Wrong.

Dang, a few months off. I thought it was 94. Turned out it was early 93 that it ceased. Sorry.

 

[WaW]

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.

Actually though on average based on percentage of Canadian teams, there should be a Canadian team in the cup finals somewhere between once every 2 and 3 years, and winning once every 5ish years. Only 6 finals in 28 years is actually horrid as well lol...

 

[treple13]

-Queen Victoria was still queen of England

-Genghis Khan had just conquered much of the world

-The pyramids weren't finished yet

 

[SniperHF]

Someone should do this is a Conan "In the year 2000" bit.

 

[abo9]

Netflix was -4 years old.

The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup

 

[abo9]

Actually though on average based on percentage of Canadian teams, there should be a Canadian team in the cup finals somewhere between once every 2 and 3 years, and winning once every 5ish years. Only 6 finals in 28 years is actually horrid as well lol...

Forget the Stanley Cups... Canadian teams for some reason have been really bad post-lockout (can't speak for prior as I was too young).

Ottawa was a solid team early 2000's if I'm not mistaken? - then middling or rebuilding
Vancouver was a top team for a while with the Sedins - then rebuild
Montreal had one or two good years - then middling most of it
Toronto has been bad for most of it
Edmonton has been putrid for most of it - except that one year they made it to the finals???
Winnipeg has only been there for 10 years (and the Thrashers were... trash)
Calgary... what have they been?

 

[PuckNorris]

Bettman handed off the cup for the first time.

 

[Mr. Fancy Pants]

Forget the Stanley Cups... Canadian teams for some reason have been really bad post-lockout (can't speak for prior as I was too young).

The irony is that the lockout was supposed to make Canadian teams MORE competitive.

 

[Nihiliste]

Calgary 2004, Edmonton 2006, Vancouver 2011 came really close. Vancouver 94 played a hard fought series. Ottawa 07, Habs 2021 outclassed.

The 10s were bad for Canada

 

[BruinsFan37]

Though it only happened last year (so it's not as bad as you would think at first glance).

There was still someone alive and drawing a veterans pension from the American Civil War.

 

[BTP]

I was 3. I am now 31

 

[BallardEra]

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.

This reminded me of the Fox body Cobras, the Trans Ams and Irocs driven by Ginos pumping these tunes:

 

[Shakey Rustie]

Calgary 2004, Edmonton 2006, Vancouver 2011 came really close. Vancouver 94 played a hard fought series. Ottawa 07, Habs 2021 outclassed.

The 10s were bad for Canada

Except for that part of getting another team.

 

[JianYang]

The darkest time was from around 1995 to 2004.

When the exchange rate was hitting lows, while salaries were escalating at a crazy rate.

Nobody wanted to touch the Canadian teams at this time, and most of the Canadian teams were focused on survival, and were nowhere near the top of the payroll lists.

 

[Osprey]

The last time that a Canadian team won the Cup, I wasn't even into hockey. Everything that I knew about it I learned from Blades of Steel. It was many years before I realized that it wasn't as much the blood sport as I was led to believe.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Free Willy was a month away from being in theatres

 

[abo9]

The irony is that the lockout was supposed to make Canadian teams MORE competitive.

ehhh serious question but how?
At least for Montreal and Toronto, a cap takes away their biggest advantage: money

Winnipeg was not a team at the time.

idk how financially strong the other canadian teams are though

 

[Kane One]

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

He created the World Wide Web. The internet has been around since like the 70s. The World Wide Web is the late 80s, like you said.

 

[Melrose Munch]

Forget the Stanley Cups... Canadian teams for some reason have been really bad post-lockout (can't speak for prior as I was too young).

Ottawa was a solid team early 2000's if I'm not mistaken? - then middling or rebuilding
Vancouver was a top team for a while with the Sedins - then rebuild
Montreal had one or two good years - then middling most of it
Toronto has been bad for most of it
Edmonton has been putrid for most of it - except that one year they made it to the finals???
Winnipeg has only been there for 10 years (and the Thrashers were... trash)
Calgary... what have they been?

The irony is that the lockout was supposed to make Canadian teams MORE competitive.

ehhh serious question but how?
At least for Montreal and Toronto, a cap takes away their biggest advantage: money

Winnipeg was not a team at the time.

idk how financially strong the other canadian teams are though

The cap was not about parity, but people thought that having a cap would have bring costs down for payroll, and in turn help the small market Canadian teams. But we still have NTCs/NMCs, and to be frank, awful drafting. That has hurt. The Canadian media also brutal, and people don't want to deal with that.

 

[dukeofjive]

- I still had hair on my head

 

[optimus2861]

The darkest time was from around 1995 to 2004.

When the exchange rate was hitting lows, while salaries were escalating at a crazy rate.

Nobody wanted to touch the Canadian teams at this time, and most of the Canadian teams were focused on survival, and were nowhere near the top of the payroll lists.

As a refresher, of course, Quebec left in 95, Winnipeg left in 96, the Oilers and Senators came perilously close to death, and if the Oilers had gone, there was some belief that the Flames wouldn't outlive them for long. A few unlucky turns of history and we might've been staring at an NHL landscape with only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver having survived the 90s.

 

[SoupNazi]

- I still had hair on my head

Well played, sir, well played.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

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.

 

[JianYang]

As a refresher, of course, Quebec left in 95, Winnipeg left in 96, the Oilers and Senators came perilously close to death, and if the Oilers had gone, there was some belief that the Flames wouldn't outlive them for long. A few unlucky turns of history and we might've been staring at an NHL landscape with only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver having survived the 90s.

Vancouver was also bleeding money, and was owned by an American at the time. There was some talk about the team being in trouble, but there was no formal report linking them to relocation.

What is do remember is Brian Burke during a press conference who kept repeating that it would only take one phone call to relocate this team.

Molson sold the habs in the early 2000s, and even they could not find a local buyer.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

So the lack of salary cap pre-Cap and the salary cap both have kept the Canadien teams down?

Bad management/ownership kill the teams chances IMO.