[GDT] Flames @ Oilers 1991, Game 6 on SN Pacific and West at 1900h.

[hwy19man]

This big game is coming on right after the 2004 game!

[drewtastic]

And now that Gelinas has scored (for the good guys), over to this thread!

[looooob]

Friggin Craig simpson

[browna]

Always loved the knowledge that there must have been an unlimited amount of rage Oilers fans must have had to have Peplinski doing color for this series.

[looooob]

Roberts Nieuwendyk Stern
Ranheim Gilmour Fleury
Fenton Otto Matteau
Reichel Wilson Hunter


would have had a hard time remembering those bottom 2 lines

[browna]

Macoun and Natress were liabilities back there by this point in their careers, certainly against skilled players.

They both got traded to Toronto in the Gilmour trade the next year.

[looooob]

Ranheim! With Jim Kyte on the scene

[ditty]

The goalies look so tiny.

[browna]

Originally Posted by looooob

Ranheim! With Jim Kyte on the scene

Kyte also falls into the “past it” column too.
Messier tried knee on knee on Nieuwendyk, blatantly.

That and elbows were all Messier could do defensively.

[ditty]

Not too many penalties called, eh?

[looooob]

Originally Posted by browna

Macoun and Natress were liabilities back there by this point in their careers, certainly against skilled players.

They both got traded to Toronto in the Gilmour trade the next year.

its stunning to think that this group, after losing this series, falls back by 26 points the next season, misses the playoffs and makes that clusterfrack of a trade...somehow they recover to get back to near 100 points for a few years after that


but that 91-92 season was a debacle

[drewtastic]

Loved Carey Wilson when I was a kid. (Both stints!)

[ben voyonsdonc]

Not having a game clock on the screen feels weird.

[ben voyonsdonc]

And MacT looks like a total dumbass without a helmet.

[JBR]

Went home for a nap after watching this game at a friend’s place, then headed down to Olympic Plaza, where they had a Ticketmaster outlet. Camped out until the next morning in order to purchase game 7 tickets in the bleeders. We were first in line... next group arrived a few hours later.

About an hour before TM opened, they let us in the building to form the line there. Shortly after, 3-4 rough looking guys showed up to join the line. One, who we later nicknamed “The missing link” started trying to break into some of the displays in the lobby. Classic Link. They ended up being cool guys, but we gave the Link his space. Got tickets.. then ended up being very disappointed a few nights later.

Good part is that game 7 was one of my first dates with my then girlfriend, now wife.

[looooob]

At this point I had no idea that I’d be moving to Edmonton 5 months later...

[browna]

Three stars, as overheard as players are walking the 1.5km back to the dressing room in that dump:
3. Vernon
2. Fleury
1. Fuhr

No surprise, some things never change. Like when they chose McDavid was 1st star in the Sedins last NHL game.

[browna]

Originally Posted by looooob

its stunning to think that this group, after losing this series, falls back by 26 points the next season, misses the playoffs and makes that clusterfrack of a trade...somehow they recover to get back to near 100 points for a few years after that


but that 91-92 season was a debacle

Well, after MacInnis and Suter, two of the top 4 defenseman in the league, Musil,was the #3 basically. Huge drop off.

Gilmour was a distraction the first 3 months of the next year, which really set them back, Risebrough was not the answer (those this game they showed Crisp watching, he must have stayed as an advisor?) as coach. Fleury was still running hot and cold...so maybe not a huge surprise thst all of those factors combined, then the massive trade, meant it was a reset year, and given how they got back into things in 94 and 95...

Besides the obvious Leeman and Gilmour principles, Flames didn’t do bad in shipping some of those guys out.

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by ditty

Not too many penalties called, eh?

The 1st period, only 2 minor penalties. The 2nd period had no calls. The 3rd period? Wow.

[Tsawwassen]

LOL on Messier for the cross ice pass that Fleury intercepted and went on to score the GWG!