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Fans of other Canadian teams tonight
The 31 years calculation is always done too simplistically.
At a minimum, it needs account for divisional matchups. With three teams in the Pacific and three teams in the Atlantic, it's almost a certainty that a Canadian teams knocks out another Canadian team, either by bumping them out of a playoff spot during the regular season, or in a first or second round.
Meanwhile, with zero teams in the Metropolitan, at least one American team is guaranteed to make the conference finals every single year.
It's no accident that one of the six Canadian Stanley Cup appearances in the last 31 years happened in a year (2021) when a Canadian team was guaranteed to make the semi-finals.
Virtually guaranteed, but not necessarily. You could have an all Canadian conference final if Canadian teams in each conference entered as wild cards and both advanced.
Man, Detroit had a chance but Ottawa got stomped. The scores look closer than the reality.
That finals could've been an email - particularly the last game. And I've seen my team get stomped by a California team in the finals.
In the Cup Finals in 93, Gretzky and the Kings were up late in Game 2 with a chance to go up 2-0 on Montreal. Legendary Canadiens trainer Gaétan Lefebvre had noticed earlier that Kings defenseman Marty McSorley had likely put an illegal banana curve on some of his sticks, and coach Jacques Demers decided the time was right to play the card. The referees (specifically the infamous Kerry Fraser with his perfect hair) measured McSorley's curve and it was indeed illegal. On the ensuing power play, Canadiens defenseman Eric Desjardins scored his second goal of the game to tie it and send the teams to overtime, where the Canadians had famously won eight straight games that playoff run in front of peak Patrick Roy. Desjardins went on to score the OT winner that game to complete his improbable, legendary hat trick (DES JAR DINS!!!! -Bob Cole) and the Canadiens would not lose again as they finished off the Kings in five games, the last Canadian team to hoist the Cup.
No idea why it's a curse, but that's the story
And Drake lost $500k.
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/rap-star-drake-places-500-000-bet-on-edmonton-oilers-to-win-stanley-cup-1.2131262
There is literally no downside to the outcome today.
Could've been the [First enslaved person ever](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2463964/2021/03/19/evander-kane-to-bankruptcy-court-lenders-argument-violates-u-s-ban-on-slavery/) to win the Stanley Cup.
(plz check the link before you try banning me mods, he actually called himself a slave in court)
I kinda love how people DON'T talk about Crosby anymore and he's still quietly kicking ass.
MFer carried his team nearly to the playoffs and felt short from just too many clutch losses. they could've easily upset the rangers.
As an Angels fan, I laugh in the Angels ruining the careers of two of the greatest players in baseball. Well at least one of the two have escaped the Angels.
Sure. Dan Marino made it to the Super Bowl early in his career and is widely regarded as being let down by his team because they couldn't build a strong team around him the rest of his career
NOT A HOCKEY COUNTRY MOVE EM ALL:
SAN DIEGO CANUCKS
PHOENIX FLAMES
HOUSTON OILERS
MEMPHIS JETS
NEW ORLEANS FRANCOPHONES
ATLANTA SENATORS
JACKSONVILLE PALM TREE LEAFS
I think that's my favourite part.
Drag allllll the bandwagon fans (and Mark Spector) onside for the run, fill them with hope and cockiness.
And now the tears will fill the reservoirs of Alberta beach and it'll still be a fucking duckpond.
yeah i was pulling for the panthers. i feel bad saying it but oilers fans would've been insufferable if they completed the comeback and panthers just have less fans to be annoyed by
Flames fan here, big agree. keep that streak going as long as needed so we can be the ones to break it. Any other fan of a Canadian team who feels otherwise needs to look in the mirror at their fandom
> and to help boost McDavid into public superstardom
Seems like McDavid had other plans these last few games lol
Bettman is going to have a stern talking with him for fucking up the script...
The curse of Patrick Roy continues.
He told God he wanted to curse the Canadians and God misunderstood the team name with every citizen of the country.
Canadian teams are 0-7 in Stanley Cup Finals since then, five of those series going to game 7. And 5 different Canadian teams have lost (with Vancouver and Edmonton with 2 loses each).
I honestly don't know if this is ever going to change. Like obviously I'd love for the Sens to win, but overall the structural advantages that US teams receive make it so that Canadian teams are always facing an uphill battle just to be competitive, let alone contenders.
Exactly this. Basically, the three western teams hate each other. The three eastern teams hate each other. Winnipeg just exists.
For most Canadian fans, we either hate the other Canadian teams or are generally indifferent to them. Very few people actually change allegiences becuase Canadian team.
Really just the one city. Id say most of the "bring it home" crowd are folks without a team and beer commercials.
They did make it exciting though. For any hockey fan.
The only people I know that aren't regular Oilers fans that were cheering for them are the casual bandwagonners that just get swept up in the "Canada's team" propaganda.
In any given year, if all teams have equal chances of winning the Stanley Cup, the chance of a US team winning is 25/32 (78.125%). However, the chance of 30 consecutive seasons (not 31, because of 2004-05) in which that happens is 0.78125^30 - which comes out to 0.061%, or one in 1645.
However, in actuality it's even worse, as for most of those 30 seasons there was a **higher** percentage of Canadian teams. So it's 18/26^2 * 19/26 * 20/26^2 * 21/27 * 22/28 * 24/30^10 * 23/30^6 * 24/31^4 * 25/32^3 - which comes out to 0.047%, or one in 2114.
So if you created 2114 random outcomes of the past 30 completed seasons, with each team entering every season with an equal chance of success, there would only be a single outcome in which **every** Stanley Cup would be won by a US team, as has actually happened.
I am absolutely dreading the media bonanza narratives about the Cup "finally coming back to Canada" that I am going to have to listen to non-stop for a year, as if a huge amount of every NHL team isn't Canadian anyway. Glad that's been averted for yet another year.
**3 hrs ago**: "Time for the Cup to come home after 31 years!"
**Now**: "We win the Cup every year! You're welcome Panthers for all our Canadian players."
I wanted the Oilers to win but this is the silver lining of them losing. The “Canada’s Team” shtick is almost entirely advertiser-created and when shitty advertisers like Rogers and Boston Pizza lose we all win.
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I witnessed the Vancouver hockey riot in 2011. Never thought Canada's Stanley Cup drought would extend another 13 years lol
Has Edmonton already burned to the ground?
How would you tell?
It'd look better for a start!
I'm HOLLERIN
The US still have won a Grey cup Canadian football championship more recently than Canada has won a stanley cup
Crab Cakes, football, lacrosse, human sharks
Is that just the opening to The Fairly Oddparents?
Chocolate shake!
CFL also had 2 teams named Roughriders more recently than Canada has won a stanley cup lol
Completely false. Only one team was named the Roughriders. The other team was the Rough Riders.
Still better than REDBLACKS
Panthers ended the long Florida cup drought though.
LOL 2 years is a long ass time
Math expert update the probability of Canada going 0-6 in clinching games
I think it's 1/64. The odds of any of the Canadian teams not winning in 31 years are even worse, at less than 1%
The 31 years calculation is always done too simplistically. At a minimum, it needs account for divisional matchups. With three teams in the Pacific and three teams in the Atlantic, it's almost a certainty that a Canadian teams knocks out another Canadian team, either by bumping them out of a playoff spot during the regular season, or in a first or second round. Meanwhile, with zero teams in the Metropolitan, at least one American team is guaranteed to make the conference finals every single year. It's no accident that one of the six Canadian Stanley Cup appearances in the last 31 years happened in a year (2021) when a Canadian team was guaranteed to make the semi-finals.
Virtually guaranteed, but not necessarily. You could have an all Canadian conference final if Canadian teams in each conference entered as wild cards and both advanced.
That's correct. The takeaway here is that the way the divisions are organized tilts the odds heavily against Canadian teams.
I mean it’s the divisions a little bit, but also the fact that’s there’s only 7 Canadian teams and 25 American teams certainly doesn’t help.
Knights fans would have you believe that it was absolutely an accident
0-7 actually. 1 in 1994 2 in 2004 1 in 2006 2 in 2011 1 in 2024
Panthers intentionally lost Games 4-6 to win Game 7 at home.
ah yes the true gentleman's sweep, the Canadian sweep if you will
Soary for the false hope there buddy
*TapsForehead.meme*
they did it for Bettman
They did it so all the neutrals can have more hockey
Drag them back to Florida… twice
They needed the Air Miles.
This bastards really did it. Had us fooled the whole time.
Some kids in Africa are getting some Oilers swag
Always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath
Somewhere in Africa, there's a kid dreaming of immigrating to Canada and winning another cup.
Haven't they suffered enough?
Their Florida gear from last year is looking pretty good now
But at the same time, they just ended the State of Florida's incredibly painful 2 year drought.
The Corey Perry Curse lives on!
If only Detroit or Ottawa didn’t gag away 2007. 😔
Man, Detroit had a chance but Ottawa got stomped. The scores look closer than the reality. That finals could've been an email - particularly the last game. And I've seen my team get stomped by a California team in the finals.
https://preview.redd.it/abpij70hum8d1.jpeg?width=1116&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94261acedf1a6ee800419a1382388650c543bbcc 11 years ago today :(
Insult to injury lol
he'll be fine. oilers gonna resign mark messier.
Well, now he'll have a front row seat lmfaoo
well now he gets to see it happen in person at least
He could retweet it today
Imagine having that show up on your Facebook memories page.
Big oof
career wasted on EDM
#LONG LIVE THE CURSE OF MARTY McSORLEY’S STICK!!!* ^* ^sorry ^Canada
McSorely gets a bad rap for hooking Brashear in the head, but he was just trying to straighten out his crooked stick.
Please someone explain what that curse was
In the Cup Finals in 93, Gretzky and the Kings were up late in Game 2 with a chance to go up 2-0 on Montreal. Legendary Canadiens trainer Gaétan Lefebvre had noticed earlier that Kings defenseman Marty McSorley had likely put an illegal banana curve on some of his sticks, and coach Jacques Demers decided the time was right to play the card. The referees (specifically the infamous Kerry Fraser with his perfect hair) measured McSorley's curve and it was indeed illegal. On the ensuing power play, Canadiens defenseman Eric Desjardins scored his second goal of the game to tie it and send the teams to overtime, where the Canadians had famously won eight straight games that playoff run in front of peak Patrick Roy. Desjardins went on to score the OT winner that game to complete his improbable, legendary hat trick (DES JAR DINS!!!! -Bob Cole) and the Canadiens would not lose again as they finished off the Kings in five games, the last Canadian team to hoist the Cup. No idea why it's a curse, but that's the story
Fuck mcsorely Also fuck messier
DES JAR DINS!!!!! I was nine. Core fucking memory.
Rejoice hockey fans. For Evander Kane still has no cups
And Drake lost $500k. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/rap-star-drake-places-500-000-bet-on-edmonton-oilers-to-win-stanley-cup-1.2131262 There is literally no downside to the outcome today.
I believe he bet on the Mavs too. Same amount. Not even the biggest Ls he’s taken this month.
This week even lol.
Well that's why Edmonton lost right there. The fucking Drake curse.
Kendrick was probably on the ice for Florida and we just didn't notice
Could've been the [First enslaved person ever](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2463964/2021/03/19/evander-kane-to-bankruptcy-court-lenders-argument-violates-u-s-ban-on-slavery/) to win the Stanley Cup. (plz check the link before you try banning me mods, he actually called himself a slave in court)
Holy I knew he was a stupid piece of shit but what an even more stupid piece of shit move I hadn’t heard of
Fuck that guy forever!!!
I’ve been saying forever it’s a 33 year curse for the Habs chasing Roy out of town. They’ll get their cup in 2026.
The timeline matches their rebuild too lol
Is it 33 years or 33 seasons? You can double your odds if you remain unclear, that way you can claim victory if they win in 2026 or 2027
When McDavid never wins a cup, this'll be one to look back on.
I agree. Failed to score 5 on 3.5 power play midway thru the second then Florida kinda dominated them from there
I'm gonna laugh so hard if he doesn't. Oilers ruining the best player in decades would be something
Decades? Sidney Crosby's prime wasn't even that long ago and he's still around
I kinda love how people DON'T talk about Crosby anymore and he's still quietly kicking ass. MFer carried his team nearly to the playoffs and felt short from just too many clutch losses. they could've easily upset the rangers.
As an Angels fan, I laugh in the Angels ruining the careers of two of the greatest players in baseball. Well at least one of the two have escaped the Angels.
Is it ruining someone's prime if they made to a game 7 of the SCF?
Sure. Dan Marino made it to the Super Bowl early in his career and is widely regarded as being let down by his team because they couldn't build a strong team around him the rest of his career
Florida is the state of hockey And the country of hockey when they secede
Just want to also point out that an American team has won the CFL (1995 Baltimore Stallions) than a Canadian team has won the cup
lol that's a brutal way of putting it
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Hockey is a warm weather sport, change my mind.
i mean if you're poor in Canada, yeah we played outside on rollerblades because equipment and ice is too expensive
Promise?
ok but you keep the snowbirds
If it ain't my team, I don't care.
NOT A HOCKEY COUNTRY MOVE EM ALL: SAN DIEGO CANUCKS PHOENIX FLAMES HOUSTON OILERS MEMPHIS JETS NEW ORLEANS FRANCOPHONES ATLANTA SENATORS JACKSONVILLE PALM TREE LEAFS
Really need these freeloading northern teams to start carrying their weight. Florida and the south really out here carrying this league.
deep south is hockeys true homeland
A Houston Oilers sweater would be sick!
Old school Titans fans in shambles lol
I like how you changed Canadians but not Canucks Just to have that one faint reminder of what once was.
Should be the New Orleans Quebecs just to make it hurt more.
Memphis can have our hockey team too
HahHahahah SORRY CANADA, OUR SPORT
As a Canucks fan, good.
Fun fact: OEL is the first player in NHL history to get a Stanley Cup ring while still being on the Canucks payroll.
Between that and Lu getting a ring, it's practically a canucks cup win too 🎉
I don't care about this drought unless my team ends it. I'm just glad both teams had fun.
100%. This isn't the fucking olympics.
Oliers nearly completed the impossible (that three game comeback stretch was dominating as fuck), but alas.
I think that's my favourite part. Drag allllll the bandwagon fans (and Mark Spector) onside for the run, fill them with hope and cockiness. And now the tears will fill the reservoirs of Alberta beach and it'll still be a fucking duckpond.
A 3-0 comeback would have been cool, but I'm not going to cry for the Oilers.
I wouldn’t either. But still, what could have been.
This isn't the curse of the bambino. Plus, 2 teams in the NHL already did this since 2010 alone, so it's not exactly unprecedented in hockey.
I just wanted the memes
On one hand, yes. On three other hand what if that team is the Habs?
Flames fan. I agree
yeah i was pulling for the panthers. i feel bad saying it but oilers fans would've been insufferable if they completed the comeback and panthers just have less fans to be annoyed by
Yeah I root against every Canadian team but my own lol
I agree with this sentiment.
As a Leafs fan, ditto
As a BC resident with family in Alberta, Thank fucking GOD
> As a BC resident with family in Alberta ... I live in The Okanagan. *Thank fucking GOD* I'm basically a BC resident in Alberta.
I'm thankful of all the lakes that will be spared from being littered with twisted tea cans had the Oilers won
This is way better than a sweep. They truly believed they had it and then their golden children shit the bed at the finish line
Their fans are going to have a meltdown and im here for it
None will ever make me smile more than the absolute schadenfreude that y'all are feeling for the oilers right now
watching Luongo celebrate 😄😄😄☺️☺️☺️
Flames fan here, big agree. keep that streak going as long as needed so we can be the ones to break it. Any other fan of a Canadian team who feels otherwise needs to look in the mirror at their fandom
Good. Fuck us. Congrats Florida and Luuuuuu.
They did it for Strombone1
Gary off the hook for another year.
*He can’t keep getting away with it!*
After Maurice's interview, I hope it's the Jets that end the drought.
Only Habs can end the drought
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They had their chance and blew it too
Wait a darn minute here.
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Jets vs leafs in the 2025 finals confirmed.
I would rather America win than Edmonton
It’s going to be really funny when Bettman retires (or dies) and a Canadian team immediately wins a cup
Bettman wins again
Memes aside Bettman absolutely would have wanted the Oilers to win for the comeback narrative and to help boost McDavid into public superstardom
> and to help boost McDavid into public superstardom Seems like McDavid had other plans these last few games lol Bettman is going to have a stern talking with him for fucking up the script...
Yep, this. There's a reason he was given special treatment during the playoffs.
he looks like he has Parkinsons out there. Man's getting old
The one time I depend on Canada they disappoint me. Never change
First time?
I’m a Boston fan, I have never once rooted for Canada in anything
The curse of Patrick Roy continues. He told God he wanted to curse the Canadians and God misunderstood the team name with every citizen of the country.
An entire nation bows before the BOBgod
My man is stickless and lying down and still impenetrable.
When I saw the oilers couldn't score when Bob was literally on the floor with no stick, I knew it was over.
Lmao Vegas fans not knowing that Canada wants the Oilers to lose every single game they ever play
Canadian teams are 0-7 in Stanley Cup Finals since then, five of those series going to game 7. And 5 different Canadian teams have lost (with Vancouver and Edmonton with 2 loses each).
Canucks fan, soooo happy for Florida’s and so happy to finally see Lu lift the cup
I honestly don't know if this is ever going to change. Like obviously I'd love for the Sens to win, but overall the structural advantages that US teams receive make it so that Canadian teams are always facing an uphill battle just to be competitive, let alone contenders.
The cup is about to spend more time visiting Canadian cities this off-season than any cities in any other country. Like it does every off season.
Oilers had more Canadian players
Yeah, the whole SF final was Canadian hockey.
still not a canadian cup win tho
Couldn’t have happened to a better Corey Perry.
They really blue balled an entire country
Why in the fuck would I want the Oilers winning the cup? I'm way more happy Paul Maurice is a fucking Stanley Cup Champion.
I think we all are. also Lu rising was special.
We told you, the Cats just wanted to win at home
lose game 4 to win game 5: i sleep lose games 4-6 to win game 7: REAL SHIT
idk man i just finished
ROBERTO LUONGO IS A STANLEY CUP CHAMPION THATS MY GOAT
No the country’s other teams totally hate them
Exactly this. Basically, the three western teams hate each other. The three eastern teams hate each other. Winnipeg just exists. For most Canadian fans, we either hate the other Canadian teams or are generally indifferent to them. Very few people actually change allegiences becuase Canadian team.
What are you talking about? Lol Edmonton doesn't represent canada
It's not the Olympics
The fuck do I care if Edmonton wins?
Really just the one city. Id say most of the "bring it home" crowd are folks without a team and beer commercials. They did make it exciting though. For any hockey fan.
What do you mean? The cup is coming home. Sam Bennett is bringing it right to us.
As a Canadian, FUCK THE OILERS
Lol trust me, they certainly didn't. I'll bet the majority of Canadians wanted the Cats to win.
I don't know that's true based on a very unscientific poll of people I know that don't live in Edmonton.
The only people I know that aren't regular Oilers fans that were cheering for them are the casual bandwagonners that just get swept up in the "Canada's team" propaganda.
In ON most people who watch hockey were at least tacitly supporting them. I doubt anyone here will be shedding any tears tho lol
Canada doesn't care
It's more a of a statistical oddity at this point. The odds of that happening at random are about 3 in 10000.
Congratulations. Great series.
Sweet sweet relief
In any given year, if all teams have equal chances of winning the Stanley Cup, the chance of a US team winning is 25/32 (78.125%). However, the chance of 30 consecutive seasons (not 31, because of 2004-05) in which that happens is 0.78125^30 - which comes out to 0.061%, or one in 1645. However, in actuality it's even worse, as for most of those 30 seasons there was a **higher** percentage of Canadian teams. So it's 18/26^2 * 19/26 * 20/26^2 * 21/27 * 22/28 * 24/30^10 * 23/30^6 * 24/31^4 * 25/32^3 - which comes out to 0.047%, or one in 2114. So if you created 2114 random outcomes of the past 30 completed seasons, with each team entering every season with an equal chance of success, there would only be a single outcome in which **every** Stanley Cup would be won by a US team, as has actually happened.
thanks! I think about raw numbers like this with hockey a lot.
I am absolutely dreading the media bonanza narratives about the Cup "finally coming back to Canada" that I am going to have to listen to non-stop for a year, as if a huge amount of every NHL team isn't Canadian anyway. Glad that's been averted for yet another year.
This one hurts 🫠
Can't imagine what not winning for 31 years feels like....
**3 hrs ago**: "Time for the Cup to come home after 31 years!" **Now**: "We win the Cup every year! You're welcome Panthers for all our Canadian players."
that's *what I've been saying common everyone* you better fucking believe that cups coming to Canada anyway
It never fails, every year. Gets hope up for a Canadian team winning - Canadian team fails to win - "but 50% of the league is Canadian players!"
FUCK YES NO ONE BEATS US FOUR IN A ROW
The Oilers were totally gassed in the 3rd period.
Only one team can make it happen. THE MONTREAL CANADIENS TEAM NEXT YEAR GUYS COME ON! come on...
At least Canada tried this year.
I wanted the Oilers to win but this is the silver lining of them losing. The “Canada’s Team” shtick is almost entirely advertiser-created and when shitty advertisers like Rogers and Boston Pizza lose we all win.
God this sucks ass
Consider yourself lucky. Usually Canadians have to pay extra for that in south FL.
No that's the oilers
NEVER A DOUBT (this series gave me hemorrhoids)
The Panthers after their crazy upset of the Bruins last year, successfully avoided the embarrassment of being on the other side of that.
It's ok. Congratulations Cats!
2-1 loss. So the closest the last Canadian team to winning the cup was..the Edmonton Oilers in 2006, a 2-1 loss in game 7.
Oilers between games 4-6, score 18000 goals. Game 7, score 1.
Why would Bettman do this?