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Originally Posted by pepper24
The Flames only getting the one cup still puts a damper on 89 for me. They were good enough to win more.
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To win more, you have to try again, and to try again, you have to be there. The '89 Flames began to be dismantled the moment they won the Cup. Loob, Ramage, and McDonald never played for the team again. Mullen, McCrimmon, Peplinski, Hrdina, and Murzyn were all gone by the midpoint of the 1990-91 season. Almost none of the players who replaced them were of the same quality.
The fact that a substantially different Flames team did not win the Cup in 1990 or 1991 should not take anything away from the 1989 team.