Stories From The Rink
1950’s
1960’s
1970’s
1980’s
Calgary Flames
1989 Stanley Cup Finals Submitted by: R Boyd
Title: I'm OK with it
The most spoiled fans on this earth are Montreal Canadien fans. Do I really have to go into detail? I've been one since 1967 See greatest NHL teams ever! Oui!
Well here we were again with about the most solid team you could think of . Certainly , the Cup would be hard fought but would be ours! Nah!
We lost the series on our home turf 4-2.
Yeah, that hurt Yeah it was close Yeah we beat them in 86 for the Cup but not this time It was close but the goalie Vernon had our number
What I remember most was in the deciding game a crusty old 16 year veteran of all the work and no reward finally got rewarded. I was still hoping to win, but Lanny Mc Donald, the guy with the red walrus mustache and beard went top shelf on Roy for the back breaking goal
How could any hockey fan on this earth begrudge Lanny McDonald game winner! As much as we hated losing that year I think every Canadien fan tipped their hat to Lanny McDonald that day. Well deserved. I'm OK with it
1990’s
2000’s
2010’s
Los Angeles Kings
2014. It was game 4 of the Western Conference Finals against Chicago in LA. I was lucky enough to get tickets to the game for my whole family who are also die hard Kings' fans. It was easily the loudest hockey game I have ever been to. I think the conventional wisdom was that the winner of this series was going to be taking home Lord Stanley's Cup. I remember seeing a couple of BlackHawks fans sitting in front of us. The Kings ended up with a 4-0 lead near the end of the 2nd period. We were dominating them so much that those Chicago fans left after the second period. I remember coming out of that game stunned on how lopsided the game was.