It feels good to be a Los Angeles Kings fan.
That’s a sentence I haven’t said often. The last decade has been tough. After all, the Kings play 3,500 kilometres from my home and haven’t won a post-season game since I was in high school. Fans of this team have had a tougher decade than Enron stockholders.
So, why am I smiling?
Take a close look at the National Hockey League’s Western Conference standings. That is not a typo. The Los Angeles Kings are a first place team.
I’ve waited a long time for this. A first-place Kings team is more rare than a Vin Diesel Academy Award nomination.
The Los Angeles Kings have been my favourite team as long as I can remember. It hasn’t been easy. The low moments easily outnumber the high points.
In honour of the 2009-2010 team’s unexpected success, I’ve compiled a list of my three greatest moments as a Kings fan.
3. March 23, 1994. Kings vs. Vancouver Canucks
Wayne Gretzky scores a goal on Kirk McLean. The goal was the 802 of his career and made him the NHL’s all-time goals leader.
That’s a sentence I haven’t said often. The last decade has been tough. After all, the Kings play 3,500 kilometres from my home and haven’t won a post-season game since I was in high school. Fans of this team have had a tougher decade than Enron stockholders.
So, why am I smiling?
Take a close look at the National Hockey League’s Western Conference standings. That is not a typo. The Los Angeles Kings are a first place team.
I’ve waited a long time for this. A first-place Kings team is more rare than a Vin Diesel Academy Award nomination.
The Los Angeles Kings have been my favourite team as long as I can remember. It hasn’t been easy. The low moments easily outnumber the high points.
In honour of the 2009-2010 team’s unexpected success, I’ve compiled a list of my three greatest moments as a Kings fan.
3. March 23, 1994. Kings vs. Vancouver Canucks
Wayne Gretzky scores a goal on Kirk McLean. The goal was the 802 of his career and made him the NHL’s all-time goals leader.
2. April 18, 2001. Kings vs. Detroit Red Wings
The Kings erased a three-goal deficit in the third period and Eric Belanger scored in overtime to win game four of the 2001 Western Conference quarter-finals. The team went on to win the series in six games.
May 27, 1993. Kings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs.
Wayne Gretzky scores on Felix Potvin, tying the Campbell Conference Final at three games apiece. The only two sounds in Ontario that night were my cheering and Leaf fans crying. It was fantastic.
Wayne Gretzky scores on Felix Potvin, tying the Campbell Conference Final at three games apiece. The only two sounds in Ontario that night were my cheering and Leaf fans crying. It was fantastic.
You truly are a king among fans.
ReplyDeleteIt must feel good to bask in the number one spot for a while.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you not to count your chickens before they're hatched... "People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately." ~ Oscar Wilde
I'm also surprised that this video didn't make your cut...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNA7OtR378
Long live the Kings
Have to say I am not impressed that you have numerously abused the Maple Leafs in this blog. However, I am VERY impressed you snuck in a picture of O.J. Simpson! Enjoy this while you can...you are just lucky you rarely play the Budds!
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ReplyDeleteEdge, I can't even make fun of you for being a Kings fan. I respect the fact that you cheer for such an abstract team in the league. As a Habs fan, I'm on the polar opposite of you; cheering for a team with twenty-four stanley cups to its name. Speaking of which, sorry for beating you guys to win our last one in 1993! All chirps aside though, your team has a lot more to be optimistic about than mine lately. The Kings will likely be ready for their coronation within the next three or four years.
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