Me too. I’m American, but it just feels wrong to not have had a Canadian Cup winner since Montreal in ‘93.
I feel the same way, but I have a friend -- a fellow Kings fan -- who insists that it's karma for the Habs supposedly "cheating" their way to a win in game 2 of the 1993 SCF against the Kings. She's a big Marty McSorley fan, and whenever the subject comes up, I remind her that it's McSorley's fault that the Kings lost game 2 (it's his fault for using an illegal stick and if that penalty isn't called, Kings take first two games on the road, and the series plays out very differently). She, on the other hand, buys into the notion that the Habs somehow surreptitiously looked at the Kings' stick rack to find out who was using illegal sticks and then, when the opportunity presented itself, the Habs used their "illegally" obtained knowledge. My response, among other things, is that, even if that happened (and there's no real evidence it did), it's still McSorley's fault for using the illegal stick.
Exactly.
Besides, the Kings have won the Cup twice now. She can let the grudge go any time...
Yup. That too. Mostly I just enjoy poking her over this.
(hoping to go to a Cup Final game for once in my life in DC)
Currently $836 just to get in the building for home game #1 and over $1,400 for home game #3 (series games 3 and 6 since the Caps won't have home ice over either Winnipeg or Vegas) on Stubhub. When the Kings won their first Cup in 2012, I went to all three home games (series games 3, 4 and 6). I dropped about $2k total, and it was worth every penny (even the loss in game 4, which was the most expensive ticket)!
Please also remind her the Kings probably didn't shouldn't have even made a Game 7 vs the Leafs in the semi-final - let alone getting to the Cup Final. Gretz had a high-stick that drew blood on Gilmour in the Game 6 OT, and didn't even get a minor penalty
Meh. First of all, there was only one referee, and Fraser was watching the shot Gretzky had just taken, and neither of the linesmen saw what happened. Second, after Fraser saw Gilmour bent over and holding his chin, he skated over to him and asked him what happened, and Gilmour told him that he got clippled on the follow through after the shot, which wasn't (and still isn't?) a penalty (even though it wasn't really a follow through). We can go back through that series and find hundreds of penalties that could have been called that might have changed the outcome of any of the games (including Gilmour's head butt in game 1, and y=you could even quibble about the Glenn Anderson roughing penalty at the end of regulation in game 6). But it's the same sort of thing. Kings and Habs were tied 1-1 when the series went back to LA. Kings didn't take care of business at home. Neither did the Leafs in game 7.