However the team has not won a division title since 1987-88, and their last playoff series win was during the 1992 – 93 NHL season.

In 1992 – 93, the Oilers missed the playoffs for the first time as an NHL team.

New owner Norm Green explored the possibility of moving the team to Anaheim, however the NHL decided instead to place the expansion Mighty Ducks there in 1992.

The Sharks, however, did not perform as well during their first two seasons – the 71 losses in 1992 – 93 is an NHL record, and they also suffered a 17-game losing streak, while winning just 11 games and earning a mere 24 points in the standings.

* Todd Warriner-former NHL hockey player picked 4th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques

In doing so, he became the third player in NHL history to win the award in consecutive years after Mike Bossy ( 1983 and 1984 ) and Wayne Gretzky ( 1991 and 1992 ).

He led the NHL in assists three times – 1992 – 93, 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02 – and finished in the top ten on 12 occasions.

In 1992 – 93, he joined the Jets and set NHL rookie records with 76 goals and 132 points, en route to the Calder Memorial Trophy.

Teemu Selänne was selected by the Winnipeg Jets 10th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft ( the last player selected in the first round by Jets general manager John Ferguson, Sr., who was fired four months later ) and was contracted by the Jets for the 1992 – 93 NHL season.

Selänne's first NHL goal came against Jeff Hackett of the San Jose Sharks on October 8, 1992.

Mario Lemieux, the winner for the 1992 – 93 NHL season | 1992 – 93 season.

Yashin received his initial fame for being the first draft pick in the history of the expansion Ottawa Senators ( 2nd overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft ).

After remaining in Russia for the 1992 – 93 season with the Dynamo Moscow, Yashin arrived in Ottawa for the 1993 – 94 NHL season, along with Ottawa's other highly touted young draft selection, Alexandre Daigle.

* 1992 – 93 NHL power-play goals leader with 32.

After being taken by the New York Islanders in the 6th round, 128th overall of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, Armstrong finally played his first full NHL campaign in the 2002 – 03 season, after having spent eight years in the minor leagues.

Starting with the 1992 – 93 NHL season, Sakic became the sole captain of the franchise.

* Played in 9 NHL All-Star Games – 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004

After improving to 76 points in his second NHL season, he led the Nordiques with a career-high 114 points in 1992 – 93, emerging as one of the league's premier young players.

After playing an initial four games with the Devils in the 1991 – 92 season, Niedermayer recorded 11 goals and 40 points in his rookie season in 1992 – 93, enough to be named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.

Aucoin was drafted 117th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.

* June 20, 1992-Drafted 117th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks

The team drafted its initial lineup of players in the 1992 MLB Expansion Draft.

* GAO Report: Border Patrol-Southwest Border Enforcement Affected by Mission Expansion and Budget August 1992

In 1992, the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning acquired him in the 1992 NHL Expansion Draft, and he would become the team's first star.

Expansion in the 1990s included a 1992 opening ( the 15th store ) in the Mall of America near Minneapolis, Minnesota, and opened four stores in California in 1996.

His The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 ( 1963, 1998 ) received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association ; Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America ( 1984, 1992 ) received the Gustavus Meyers Prize, and The Clash: U. S .- Japanese Relations Throughout History ( 1997 ) received both the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Ellis Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.

He never reached the NHL with the Whalers and was later claimed by the new Ottawa Senators in the 1992 NHL Expansion Draft.

Left unprotected by Cincinnati in the 1992 MLB Expansion Draft, Hoffman was selected by the Florida Marlins with the eighth pick in the first round.

Every year between 1992 and 2002, the Republican leadership of the U. S. Congress added a rider to the District of Columbia appropriations bill that prohibited the use of federal or local funds to implement the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act.

He was deputy minister of the following ministries: Indian and Northern Affairs ( 1975 – 1977 ); Transport Canada ( 1979 – 1983 ); Regional Industrial Expansion ( 1985 – 1986 ); Energy, Mines and Resources ( 1986 – 1988 ); and Employment and Immigration Canada ( 1988 – 1992 ).

Following a successful launch as a Business Expansion Scheme, it became a public limited company ( plc ) in 1992.

* " 7: 7 Expansion " ( 1992 )-# 39 on the UK Singles Chart ; February 1993

Established in 1878 and reconstituted in 1981, the Veiled Profit Fair, nominally the Fair Saint Louis starting in 1992, is an annual festival held during the July 4 holiday in downtown St. Louis, Missouri at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Later that same year, he was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 1992 Expansion Draft.

In 1992 a Draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations was proposed at the Rio Earth Summit by the UN Centre for Transnational Corporations ( UNCTC ), but the Business Council for Sustainable Development ( BCSD ) together with the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) argued successfully for self-regulation instead.

The Magic history was changed on May 17, 1992, when the franchise won the first pick in the 1992 NBA Draft Lottery.

The Hornets selected Alonzo Mourning with the 2nd overall pick of the 1992 NBA Draft ; 1991 NBA Draft | a year earlier, they selected Larry Johnson ( basketball, born 1969 ) | Larry Johnson with the first overall pick

It has previously hosted the 1976, 1980 and 1992 Democratic National Conventions, and hosted the NFL Draft for many years ( now held at Garden-leased Radio City Music Hall ).

* Steve Emtman is the # 1 pick in the 1992 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts

The scale of the riot was surpassed only by the New York City Draft Riots, which took place during the U. S. Civil War, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

After improving to 58 points over 60 games in 1992 – 93, he was selected 23rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.

Varvio was drafted by Minnesota North Stars in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.

Gonchar was the first round pick, 14th overall, of the Washington Capitals in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.

Drafted first overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft from ZPS Zlín, Hamrlík plays as a defenceman who typically takes on an offensive role for his team, especially on the powerplay.

He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres 83rd overall in the fourth round in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.

Salmon who had been selected in the third round of the Major League Baseball Draft in 1989 out of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, made his major league debut in 1992, the same year that he won the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award.

Carter was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, 10th round, 220th overall, after playing AAA level hockey in the Metro Toronto Hockey League.

On September 30, 1990, the Whalers traded Tippett to the Washington Capitals for the Capitals sixth round draft choice in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.

The 1992 NBA Draft marked the entrance into the league of Shaquille O ' Neal, who was drafted by the Orlando Magic.