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

It was the year 1993.
He Dallas Cowboys he had just won the Vince Lombardi Trophy, handing the Buffalo Bills their third consecutive Super Bowl loss. Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States. And American music icon Prince became the artist formerly known as Prince.
The Montreal Canadiens after defeating the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Final in Montreal on June 9, 1993. (Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images)
It was also the last time a Canadian hockey team won the Stanley Mug.
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On Saturday night, Edmonton Oilers I hope to take the first step toward breaking that drought when they face the Florida Panthers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
It’s familiar territory. The Oilers are just one of five Canadian-based teams to have reached the finals six times since. Edmonton lost to the carolina hurricanes in the 2006 Stanley Cup Final.
The Oilers have a chance to bring the Cup to Canada for the first time in 30 years.
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Here’s a look back at what life was like the last time a Canadian team won the Cup.
RETROSPECTIVE SCENE
top song

Whitney Houston performs on May 18, 1988 in Paris. (Frederic Reglain/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Whitney Houston The record-breaking single “I Will Always Love You”, released in 1992 as part of the soundtrack to her film debut in “The Bodyguard”, topped the charts in 1993. It set a record at the time with 14 weeks on top. .
box office

Steven Spielberg directing Jurassic Park in 1993. (Murray Close/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)
Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film “Jurassic Park,” The first of the original trilogy starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, it was released in June 1993 and was the highest-grossing film of that year with more than $914 million worldwide.
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New technology

The Bing, Microsoft and Yahoo websites are displayed on a computer monitor on July 29, 2009, in San Anselmo, California. (Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
On April 30, 1993, the world Wide Web It became available to the public four years after development began. It became popular shortly after with the creation of the Mosaic web browser, which was released in September of that year.
GAME 1

Evan Bouchard (2), Connor McDavid (97), Zach Hyman (18), Mattias Ekholm (14) and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) of the Edmonton Oilers 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 host the Panthers on Saturday night in Game 1 and Monday night in Game 2 before the series moves to Florida. The Panthers returned to the Stanley Cup Final for the second straight year after losing to the Vegas Golden Knights in five games last year.
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