Hockey is hailed as Canada’s sport, yet no Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since the Mont-real Canadiens’ victory over the Los Angeles Kings in 1993. We asked William Foster, a professor at the University of Alberta whose research interests include the management and performance of professional hockey teams, what it would take to end the nearly three-decade dry spell.
Canada is having its longest losing streak in the 104-year history of the NHL.1 Are Canadian hockey teams getting worse?
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