Edmonton Oilers celebrity Connor McDavid continues to be ready for his first Stanley Cup, and the NHL’s seven Canadian franchises are nonetheless ready for his or her championship drought to finish.
With the Oilers’ 5-1 loss to the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night time, it continued Canada’s staggering Stanley Cup drought and prolonged it to 32 consecutive years.
You need to go all the best way again to the 1992-93 NHL season to search out the final time one of many NHL’s Canadian-based franchise received the Cup. It was throughout that season that the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Los Angeles Kings to win their twenty fifth championship. Since then, all of them have been shut out.
The drought is so intensive that an American-based staff received the Canadian Soccer League championship (the Baltimore Stallions in 1995) extra just lately than a Canadian NHL staff has received the Stanley Cup. It’s price noting that the CFL left the USA and returned to being a Canadian-only league in 1996.
Since Montreal’s win in 1993, Canadian groups have made eight appearances within the Stanley Cup Closing and misplaced all of them.
- The Vancouver Canucks misplaced the 1994 (New York Rangers) and 2011 (Boston Bruins) Stanley Cup Closing
- The Calgary Flames misplaced the 2003 collection (Tampa Bay Lightning)
- The Ottawa Senators misplaced the 2006 collection (Anaheim Geese)
- The Canadiens misplaced the 2021 collection (Tampa Bay Lightning)
- The Oilers have made essentially the most Stanley Cup Closing appearances among the many league’s Canadian groups in the course of the drought, shedding the 2006 (Carolina Hurricanes), 2024 and 2025 (Florida Panthers) collection.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets are the one two Canadian franchises to haven’t appeared in a Stanley Cup Closing for the reason that 1993 season.
So long as McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are in Edmonton, the Oilers determine to be the staff closest to snapping that drought and bringing the Cup again to Canada, however it’ll be awfully tough to make a 3rd consecutive Stanley Cup Closing subsequent season.
