The Kings going back to 1990 when they upset the Flames in the first round in a series that wasn't without controversy, just to get swept by the Oilers in the next round.
The Flames were the best team in the west during the regular season, and the Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup. Of course Gretzky was with the Kings then and former Oiler Mike Krushelnyski was the eliminator in the series versus the Flames in double OT just adding to the misery.
The Flames were poised to repeat that year, just to get ousted by former Oilers, and then had to endure watching the Oilers win the Cup in a redemption after trading Gretzky. We went from an extreme high the year before, to utter disappoint within a calendar year.
A lot of people here are too young to have been there, but that was painful.
Not for the faint of heart:
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I can cut the Kings some slack because, after all, they did hire Darryl Sutter and beat the most insufferable version of the Canucks. The 1990 series I blame on Denis Morel, and on certain Flames players who decided that quitting in the playoffs was a good way to show their displeasure with Terry Crisp. (That one game they lost 12-4? Inexcusable.) But I built up a good healthy dislike of the Stars in those couple of playoff series they had with the Flames.
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CP Most Disliked Opposition - Round 11 Run Off
