E.L. wrote:
To do this during a mostly 30 team league is nuts. It'll never happen again. Take a bow, Wings.
Yup, it's a pretty incredible accomplishment.
I was 8 years old the last time this team missed the playoffs.
I'm trying to track down when I really started to be an Yzerman/Wings fan. I'm 99% sure it happened with the hockey card boom in 90-91. Not sure if it was earlier than that with the sticker books. I distinctly remember the Upper Deck cards and a couple of holograms.
Mom's got a picture from Feb 92 of me wearing a cross-stitched Red Wings sweatshirt. 9 years old at that point.
This was the first game that I saw live. We brought our trappers and got on TV. I thought Yzerman had 4 assists in that game, but it was a goal, 2 assists and 1st star. I've got the ticket stub somewhere.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscor ... 60TOR.htmlSchool after the 1993 playoffs was pretty brutal.