Too nervous as a 13 year old to watch most games that playoffs.
So, played street hockey before dinner. Came in for dinner and had to go to soccer and it was 1-0 and first intermission.
Soccer game was at Frank Mcool, a distance where I could bike, but most parents stayednin cars listening to the game. Car honks meant Flames goals.
Our game ended about the same time and what a great feeling. 711 was giving out free Slurpees.
Then went home and got changed and went on the median of Acadia drive to elicit car horn honks. Then back after dark to watch the game on our Beta machine.
Some thoughts years later:
Why Peplinski and Hunter didn't at least put on jerseys to accept the Cup beyond me. Accepting in their underwear is crazy.
I had a flashback June 5 2004 game 6 to the opening goal May 28 1989. When Green batted puck down to Patterson at the line for the opening goal it reminded me of Boyle doing the same thing to Saprykin then Saprykin finding Nilson to tie the game up late in the second. Exact same bounce.
The goal the credited to Rick Green was nuts. More blatant goalie interference you cannot find.
Vernons first goal against was terrible. For all his solid play through the series and the game he'd have been roasted.
Dick Irvin was always insufferable, and this game and series was insufferable beyond comprehension. The resident Canadiens historian, sliding in facts about the Richards or times hen his dads coached there were bad enough, but his air of superiority was sickening. On the Gilmour late goal he said "sharp angle, good shot" with such a disspointed, bordering on indignant tone. That goal meant he could tear up the chapter in the Canadiens book he was probably writing, and would mean one less get together he could chum around with Canadiens alumni to tell them all about his dad in the 40s. And him saying that, when it was clear the Flames had won, "we have got cameras set up, in the city where the Flames come from" with an excited tone that this was some new technology. And in a tone that made one think the Flames came from the moon. For Irvin's small little eastern world he lived in, it may as well have been the moon.
Peter Maher was late on his final call as the buzzer went becuase Barkley was talking over that last faceoff.
MacInnis getting his trip to Disneyland. I think the first time a hockey player had done that.
The aftermath, Ron McLean dropping Anderson Road and Crowchild trial.
The end of the cbc broadcast and 2 and 7s. Both were on the DVD I created of that game and was purchased and watched by various members of CP back in summer 2003.
