The Edmonton Oilers must win the subsequent 4 video games towards the Florida Panthers within the Stanley Cup Ultimate in the event that they need to finish one of many longest droughts in skilled sports activities. Edmonton has turn out to be the newest Canadian staff to achieve the championship collection and is hoping to finish the nation’s 31-year drought. The final time a Canadian staff raised Lord Stanley’s Cup was in 1993. Now the Oilers might want to climb out of a 3-0 collection deficit in the event that they hope to make some historical past of their very own.

On June 9, 1993, the Montreal Canadiens handed across the Stanley Cup after beating the Los Angeles Kings in 5 video games. Jurassic Park was mauling its competitors on the field workplace. “Roseanne” and ‘House Enchancment” had been on nearly each TV in America. Janet Jackson’s “That is the Manner Love Goes” was topping the billboard charts.

Since then, the Stanley Cup has taken up residence in america for 31 consecutive years.

That is a very long time for a hockey-crazy nation to go and not using a Cup winner, however Canadian groups have completed their justifiable share of dominating all through the years. The Canadiens lead the NHL with 23 Stanley Cup wins, together with 5 straight from 1956-60.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have turn out to be the butt of many postseason jokes within the modern-day, however they’d a few dynasties of their very own within the 40s and 60s. In whole, Toronto has received the Cup 13 occasions, even when it has been almost 60 years since their final championship.

The Oilers themselves are a lot conversant in Lord Stanley. From 1984-88, Edmonton received the Stanley Cup in 4 out of 5 years with the good Wayne Gretzky main a staff chock-full of future Corridor of Famers like Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Grant Fuhr. The Oilers received their fifth and most up-to-date Stanley Cup in 1990, after sending Gretzky to the Kings two years earlier.

If they will beat the Panthers, which weren’t even a franchise in 1993 when Montreal received the final Cup for a Canadian staff, the Oilers will lastly deliver the Stanley Cup north of the border, ending the prolonged drought. With that in thoughts, let’s check out how lengthy every Canadian staff has gone and not using a championship.

Toronto Maple Leafs | 57 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 13
• Years received: 1967, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1951, 1949, 1948, 1947, 1945, 1942, 1932, 1922, 1918

Vancouver Canucks | 54 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 0
• Years received: N/A

Calgary Flames | 35 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 1
• Years received: 1989

Edmonton Oilers | 34 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 5
• Years received: 1990, 1988, 1987, 1985, 1984

Ottawa Senators | 32 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 0
• Years received: N/A

Montreal Canadiens | 31 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 23
• Years received: 1993, 1986, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1973, 1971, 1969, 1968, 1966, 1965, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1953, 1946, 1944, 1931, 1930, 1924, 1926

Winnipeg Jets | 13 years

• Stanley Cup wins: 0
• Years received: N/A