Hockey Hearsay
The Toronto Star remembers that a Stanley Cup parade used to be a semi-regular occurrence in a Canadian city.
And Guy Carbonneau, captain of the last Canadian team to win a Stanley Cup, believes it will be again.
Why? Simple economics.
Carbonneau, now the president of the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the Quebec league, believes it was the plunging value of the loonie that did in Canadian hockey hopes in the mid-1990s and the subsequent return to parity with the U.S. greenback will simply level the playing field for Canadian teams.
“Whether we like it or not, money is always a problem,” said Carbonneau, a three-time Cup-winner. “All the revenues for Canadian teams are in Canadian dollars but all their spending is in U.S. dollars. It was tough to compete with the Americans. We lost a lot of good players to the U.S.”
Between 1926-27, when the NHL became the sole custodian of the Stanley Cup, and 1992-93, when the dollar began to dive, Canadian teams won the Stanley Cup 41 times. In fact, there were only 15 Cup finals played without a Canadian team in that 66-season span.
And from ’93 until now? O-fer Canada.
With Boston taking out Vancouver in a seven-game Cup final this spring, those Habs remain the last Canadian team to win it all.
“I would never have thought it would take (more than) 18 years for the Montreal Canadiens , or a team in Canada, to win the Cup,” said Jacques Demers, coach of the 1993 Habs. “I’m tired of saying we’re the last team to win the Cup in Canada.”
The Star says the drought only mildly surprises ex-Maple Leaf Vince Damphousse, an alternate captain on that 1993 Montreal team.
“It’s very tough to get all the pieces together at one time,” said Damphousse. “There are 30 teams. Anybody can win it. Small details will make you win or lose. When we won, we were not necessarily favoured in the first round. Quebec had more points than us in our division, but we were able to beat them.”
Carbonneau’s argument is compelling.
The Canadian dollar began its decline with the tech boom of the mid-1990s and bottomed out in 2002, only beginning to climb back in 2007. During that time, only the wealthy Maple Leafs could afford to spend at the same rate as the U.S. teams year in and year out.
“You have to do it the right way and when it’s your time, you have to make sure you win it or it’s going to be over with,” Carbonneau said.
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