yeah, but if you're going to nitpick, the question didn't mention 2006.
(or 1982, since in a previous post I mentioned that series loss)
I honestly don't see 2006 as devestating, if you seperate the playoff run, or even the final series, from the events after.
I honestly can't see how someone could be more upset losing in the first or second round then in Game 7 of the Cup Final. To get that close and fall short its worse than not even getting there at all. IMO.
I honestly can't see how someone could be more upset losing in the first or second round then in Game 7 of the Cup Final. To get that close and fall short its worse than not even getting there at all. IMO.
The 1986-87 Oilers rebounded from their stunning second round round loss by winning their third cup in four years. For the fans who actually witnessed that season, it certainly was a long and bumpy journey. Calgary seemed to have a mental advantage over the Oilers by beating us early and often. They finished the regular season 6-1-1 against us after we had gone 6-1-1 against them in the '86 regular season.
Coffey was injured with a bad back and his relationship with Sather deteriorated at a rapid pace. The first game of the first round against LA gave us major jitters until we went 12-2 en route to the final. Blowing a 3-1 series lead in the cup final made matters worse until the Oilers dominated the third period of the seventh game, finally redeeming themselves from the '86 debacle. It's amazing after the long journey back in '87, the Oilers came back and won the cup in '88.
I honestly can't see how someone could be more upset losing in the first or second round then in Game 7 of the Cup Final. To get that close and fall short its worse than not even getting there at all. IMO.
The 1986-87 Oilers rebounded from their stunning second round round loss by winning their third cup in four years. For the fans who actually witnessed that season, it certainly was a long and bumpy journey. Calgary seemed to have a mental advantage over the Oilers by beating us early and often. They finished the regular season 6-1-1 against us after we had gone 6-1-1 against them in the '86 regular season.
Coffey was injured with a bad back and his relationship with Sather deteriorated at a rapid pace. The first game of the first round against LA gave us major jitters until we went 12-2 en route to the final. Blowing a 3-1 series lead in the cup final made matters worse until the Oilers dominated the third period of the seventh game, finally redeeming themselves from the '86 debacle. It's amazing after the long journey back in '87, the Oilers came back and won the cup in '88.
I guess the emotions were vague for me in 86. I was only 8 at the time.
I just remembered a kid getting pummeled in school for wearing a Flames jersey the next day. Not like someone getting punched, but like 5-6 kids beating him, and everyone cheering them on. I remember my cousins friend broke his hand by punching a brick wall, and the graffiti of 'Steve Smith Sucks'.
I think over the years we've coped by laughing about it. We used to play 'Steve Smith' Foosball, and we see that goal on gag reels, and have won a few cups since (redeeming Smith).
But that 2006 one still hurts today. And we have only a series of last place finishes that have rubbed all kinds of salt in the wound.
2006 is worse because there were no highs as a fan since then. At least in 86 you knew the team would keep winning cups after that based on how great their roster still was year after year.
86 AINEC. We were the favorite to win the cup and only lost because of an own goal. In 1989 no one knew how the team would do without Gretzky and no one was expecting a Cup win.
'89 kinda was like the culmination of what happened in August 1988 though which is the most devastating thing to happen to the franchise. So it kind of felt like getting kicked in the balls, barely getting back to your feet and then being kicked in the balls again.
It felt like the franchise itself was ... over ... in a span of a year we went from the greatest hockey team of all time to it all being over and done with and to pour even more salt in the wound it looked like the Kings were going places.
That's just what it felt like at the time, but it felt like it was over. And the Flames finally won a Cup in '89 to put a cherry on top of that **** sundae, lol.
'86 was painful, but you still knew they would win (probably) again.
God, when I saw this pic right after the 06 loss, I was a grown man bawling his eyes out.
Anyone who does not say 1986 is simply too young to really know what they are talking about.
We judge it differently with the passing of time. but i would say 89 was disappointing at the time but winning in 90 took the sting away and made it an even more special championship. Winning without Gretzky proved the critics wrong about the oilers.