1. 90s SPORTS a CHC2D Canadian History Presentation

5. SPORTS BOOMS 1992 was a watershed moment for Canadian sports: the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1993, they did the same thing again in 1994, it looked like Canada’s other team, the Montréal Expos, were going to win the World Series — but the season ended prematurely because of a strike sports writers were upset at this because the entire Expos lineup cost less than any two players of the team they were bound to meet: the New York Yankees Montreal would be unable to keep paying its players and the team broke up Montreal would never reach the World Series again in 2004, the team would be sold to Washington, D.C., where it was renamed the Nationals before it went, though, the Expos traded away its most valuable player — to the Habs!

11. SPORTS CANADA baseball wasn’t the only sport feeling a surge in Canada: in 1993, the Canadian Football League expanded… into the United States! the Sacramento Gold Miners would be joined the following year by the Las Vegas Posse, Baltimore Stallions and Shreveport Pirates in 1995, with the Birmingham Barracudas and Memphis Mad Dogs joining them, the Posse folding, and the Gold Miners moving to San Antonio to become the Texans, the CFL’s South Division was born Baltimore would go on to win the Grey Cup — the first time a non-Canadian team would win the trophy for the Canadian game the following year, the American division collapsed: none of the teams were competitive except Baltimore, and the NFL had just started the Ravens to compete with them SPORTS CANADA?

15. SPORTS CANADA 1996 would not be a good year for sports in Ottawa suffering from money loss, the Canadian Football League demanded that Ottawa boost its season ticket numbers — since that was guaranteed income per game it didn’t matter that Ottawa had the highest attendance of all the teams in the east, those couldn’t be counted on to show up to any game when Ottawa didn’t sell enough, the Ottawa Roughriders would fold — leaving the city without a football team since 1875 thankfully, the league decided to expand soon after and went into Montréal to replace the Alouettes, who had been closed down in 1987 the owner of the Alouettes believes his team does best when there is a rivalry with Ottawa, so the Ottawa Renegades were launched in 2004 when the Renegades owner had to sell the team, the league sold it to the same people who ended the Roughriders… and would end that team too

17. SPORTS CANADA also softening the blow was the arrival of some new sports teams in Ottawa in 1990, the National Hockey League announced that it would expand the league into Ottawa the Ottawa Senators debuted at the Civic Centre (home of the Ottawa 67s) against the Montreal Canadians the Senators wanted to build a stadium at Lebreton Flats but were stopped by the National Capital Commission, so the team moved to Kanata they were not the only team to want the Flats in 1993, the Montréal Expos opened a new farm team in Ottawa, the Ottawa Lynx the Lynx would be sold to Baltimore when the Expos shut down, and last three years before Baltimore took them to another city Ottawa is still trying to get a baseball team to play — and stay — there

21. SPORTS CANADA in 1995, the Quebec Nordiques were sold to Colorado to become the Avalanche much to Quebec City’s dismay, the Avalanche would win the Stanley Cup the same year with virtually the exact same team as had played in Q.C. the year before in 1995, the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies debuted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) sadly, Vancouver could not support an NBA team and they were sold off to Memphis as for the Raptors, well… when it came to the end of the decade, Canadian attention returned to hockey reacting to Eddie The Eagle’s lack of formal training, the International Olympic Committee demanded a new level of professional training to compete… a level that pro athletes were getting the NBA entered the Olympics in 1992 and NHL in 1998 for Canada, 1998 was a huge loss — but not an embarrassment like the US, who trashed their hotel rooms before heading home to their individual teams