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Why Canada's Stanley Cup drought might end this year

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Want to know how long it's been since the last time a Canadian NHL team won the Stanley Cup?

More than three-quarters of the nearly 1,000 current NHL players weren't born when the Montreal Canadiens hoisted the trophy in June 1993. Only about 3% were at least 5 years old, an age at which they might reasonably have any memory of a Canadian team winning. Even Mark Giordano, the league's oldest player this season at 40 -- coincidentally, also a Toronto native and a Maple Leafs defenseman -- was 9 years old that summer.