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Old 12-14-2020, 11:57 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by EastCoastFlamesFan View Post
12-4 was the series against LAK in 1990, but yeah, it's not hard to mix the two series up. I'll have to go back and look but I'm pretty sure Hrudey was hurt for the first few games as well and we went into game 4 up 2-1 facing Robb Stauber and he plays the game of his career. From there, we absolutely fell into a track meet with them and it favored LA bigtime. It's a shame because I always liked Dave King as a coach and always thought the 93, 94 and 95 teams deserved better. The 93 series went as follows (CGY wins in bold):

Game 1: 6-3 (0-1)
Game 2: 9-4 (1-1)
Game 3: 5-2 (2-1)

Game 4: 3-1 (2-2)
Game 5: 9-4 (3-2)
Game 6: 9-6 (4-2)

FWIW, here are some pretty accurate lines from the '93 series:

Roberts - Niuewy - Paslawski
Ranheim - Reichel - Theo
Ashton - Otto - Stern
Berube - Skrudland - Johansson

Musil - Chopper
Dahl - Suter
Yawney - Dahlquist

All in all, this was a good team, with really good Center depth, but I think Makarov basically quitting on the team killed the top 6 depth and forced guys like Paslawski and Stern to fill in roles that just didn't work. IMO, the '94 squad was much better than this team, but we all know how that turned out.
I do think Vernon was playing hurt in this series as well (back problems?) and I think in Game 6, Reese allowed 9 goals on like 21 shots while Flames had six goals on 46 shots. They were the better team in that game.
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