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Oilers look to end lengthy drought: What life looked like the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup

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The year was 1993.

of Dallas Cowboys The team won the Vince Lombardi Trophy and lost three straight Super Bowls to the Buffalo Bills. Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States. American music icon Prince became “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.”

On June 9, 1993, the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Final in Montreal. (Bruce Bennett Studios, Getty Images Studios/via Getty Images)

It also marked the last time a Canadian hockey team won the championship. Stanley Cup.

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Saturday night, Edmonton Oilers They will be hoping to take the first step towards ending their unbeaten streak when they face the Florida Panthers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals.

It’s familiar territory. The Oilers are one of five Canadian-based teams to have reached the finals six times since then. Edmonton Carolina Hurricanes In the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals.

The Oilers have a chance to bring the Cup home to Canada for the first time in 30 years.

Oilers’ Connor McDavid, Zach Hyman lead team to Stanley Cup Final

Let’s take a look back at the last time a Canadian team won the Cup.

Flashback

Top Songs

Whitney Houston performs

Whitney Houston performed in Paris on May 18, 1988. (Frédéric Legrand/Gamma Raffo via Getty Images)

Whitney Houston’s Released in 1992 as part of the soundtrack to her film debut, The Bodyguard, her record-breaking single “I Will Always Love You” reached the top of the charts in 1993, staying at the top for a then-record 14 weeks.

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Directed by Steven Spielberg

Jurassic Park, 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg. (Murray Close/Sigma/Sigma via Getty Images)

Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movies “Jurassic Park,” The first film in the original trilogy, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, was released in June 1993 and became the highest-grossing film of that year, grossing over $914 million worldwide.

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Internet Browser

A computer monitor in San Anselmo, California, July 29, 2009 displays the Bing, Microsoft and Yahoo websites. (Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

April 30, 1993 world wide web It was released to the public four years after development began and quickly gained popularity with the birth of the Mosaic web browser, which was released in September of that year.

Game 1

Oilers players stand for the national anthem

Edmonton Oilers’ Evan Bouchard (2), Connor McDavid (97), Zach Hyman (18), Mattias Ekholm (14) and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) stand for the national anthem before Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Dallas Stars at Rogers Place on June 2, 2024 in Edmonton. (Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images)

The Oilers will host the Panthers in Game 1 on Saturday night and Game 2 on Monday night before the series moves to Florida. The Panthers are back in the Stanley Cup Final for the second straight year after losing in five games to the Vegas Golden Knights last year.

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