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Originally Posted by Freeway
Doug was the GM at the time and basically fired himself after those two shutout losses.
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I believe that Canuck game was one of the 25 or 30 that was on TV that season. Every chance the Canucks had, went in. One couldn’t imagine the social media fallout from a loss like that now.
Earlier that year, the Flames had gotten shutout for the first time in 190 games or so. And on the other hand they had wins of 9-1 and 10-3 earlier in the year.
And GRANT POLLOCK along with Lownsborough did the Sports at 11 show that night and was inconsolable, whereas he was the cheerleader of the team in those days.
Amazing how quickly things went out of control after that Game 6 loss in 1990 vs LAK. The hasty ownership decision to fire Crisp and let go a bunch of players, led to the only GM the Flames had had in Fletcher realizing the madness and getting himself out a year later, throwing the organization into chaos, leaving an unprepared person as GM and coach. The franchise never truly recovered until 2003.