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Opinion

A photo of the CBC building in Toronto on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press files)

It’s 25 years this spring since an NHL team based in Canada hoisted a Stanley Cup.

At 8-1 odds, the bookmakers will tell you the Winnipeg Jets are currently this country’s best hope to end the famine at a quarter-century.

What a story that would be — a small Prairie city with the smallest market in the NHL loses its team in 1996, gets another in 2011 and seven years later ends the longest Stanley Cup drought in this country’s history.