Will a Canadian team finally win the Stanley Cup?

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The Stanley Cup playoffs begin Saturday. With four strong Canadian teams involved in what looks like a wide-open tournament, the best trophy in sports could return home for the first time since Patrick Roy’s Montreal Canadiens captured it with their overtime magic in the spring 1993.

Here’s a quick look at those four teams:

Edmonton Oilers: With Connor McDavid hurting early in the season, Edmonton got off to an ugly 3-9-1 start that cost coach Jay Woodcroft his job. Since Kris Knoblauch took over, the Oilers have the highest points percentage in the league. And the best player in the world is back on top of his game. McDavid’s bumpy start kept him from winning his fourth consecutive scoring title, but he still became one of only five players in history to reach 100 assists in a season. The other members of that club — Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr and Nikita Kucherov, who joined a few days after McDavid — all own multiple Stanley Cup rings. McDavid, 27, has yet to even make it to a Cup final. After placing second to Vancouver in the Pacific Division, the Oilers face Los Angeles in the first round for the third straight year, starting Monday night.

Vancouver Canucks: One of the league’s great surprises, Vancouver improved from 83 points to 109 to make the playoffs for the first time in four years and capture its first division title in more than a decade. Though their scoring cooled in the second half of the season after a red-hot start, the Canucks still finished with the sixth-most goals in the league. Veteran J.T. Miller put up his first 100-point season while young forward Elias Pettersson notched 89 and Quinn Hughes exploded for 92 — pretty remarkable for a 24-year-old defenceman. Vancouver opens its first-round series vs. Nashville on Sunday night.

Winnipeg Jets: Speaking of pleasant surprises, Winnipeg wasn’t expected to do much after winning a grand total of one playoff game over the past two years. Instead, the Jets soared to fourth place overall — tops among Canadian teams — after closing the season with eight straight wins. Anchored by star goalie Connor Hellebuyck, Winnipeg finished second in the Central Division to Dallas and tied Florida for the fewest goals surrendered in the league. But the Jets’ stinginess will be tested in the first round by Colorado, which led…