There is a unmistakable symmetry to the idea Canada’s best hope to end an interminable Stanley Cup drought — which is now officially being measured in quarter-centuries — rests with a city that is home to one of the few championship droughts in North American sport even longer than that.
It’s been 25 years since a hockey team from Canada hoisted a Stanley Cup; it’s been 28 years since either of this city’s two major sports teams hoisted a trophy of their own at Portage and Main.
All of which is to say, we feel your pain Canada.