Another Memorable (6-5) L.A. Kings ‘Offs Win Vs The Edmonton Oilers

After dissipating a (4-0) lead, evoking memories of the Oilers doing same with a (5-0) lead in #3/’82 Prelims, unlike those Oilers, L.A. won said tilt, getting a fluke last minute goal from Phillip Danault to (6-5), yes Edmonton, in their best of 7 prelims/first round NHL playoff series opening game.

The Kings (2-8) in ‘offs series and the losing team in 6 straight, 3 in first round clashes in each of the last 3 seasons, (they won that first such clash in ’82 and the other was in ’89, the first season after Wayne Gretzky “Janet Jones’d” from Edmonton to L.A. I feel denying what could have been a top 3 or so all-time sports dynasty and in fairness led by Gretzky and Messier was a great one, winning 5 crowns (Kings, crowns, “The Wanderer”) in 7 seasons, the last sans Gretzky and with Messier in ’90) win made the favorite team (7-0) in games 1 thus far (on the 4th night Bettman says “let there be Florida at Tampa Bay”), the home team going (6-1) in such and currently both home teams and favorites are (8-1). (Exceptions are both in the Colorado at Dallas games as the favorite team, ‘Lanche of Colorado, eased in #1, but lost as such in overtime, last night in game 2.

Click above to hear the great Dion (DiMucci) sing his smash hit, “The Wanderer.”

That referenced above (including in the post title) so memorable Kings’ (6-5) home win vs Edmonton in #3 of the best of 5 ’82 prelims, is recalled in the video above.

I did not see that game and surely it was not TV’d nationally, but watching it I recall the fans standing blocking the camera, as shown in the video, which so often manifested at both great “Forums,” the one in L.A. and the one in Montreal, to which I rode a bus overnight to see my first and one of the last Canadiens’ games there.