For the Kings, 1993 is not so much right now

For the Kings, 1993 is not so much right now

Newark, NJ – to tell a long-term fan of the kings have been in this position before, they won the opener, and the Stanley Cup finals in 1993, a precedent, which stood alone until they beat New Jersey Devils on Wednesday, and it would be right.

It is also important.

Kings won the first Cup Final match Montreal Canadiens 19 years ago, but these are not the kings, or in this age. For most of the members of the current team is the 1993 Final distant part of the history of the Civil War. They know that it happened and that it was important, but they tend to be slightly fuzzy details.

“I remember it, because I’m 33 and I remember seeing the game and it was fun to watch hockey for me, but I do not think it really matters,” defenseman Rob Scuderi said after the team practiced on Friday.

“Everything will always be the last team, or” This team has more than 5-0 Game 7s in its history “, but no one of these groups. None of us have been there.”

Longevity is rare among players, but common among fans, especially fans of the Kings. Thousands boast of having seen their first game forum with parents or siblings. The two who lives in Hawaii, even season tickets and travel to Los Angeles for a long time at home stands in all seasons. Die-Hards is the Canadian province of Alberta, who rearranged their schedules to participate in the first two games at the Staples Center next week.

continuity of each team’s needs, which is loyal to there through thick and thin. Kings often meant thin and thinner, until re cent times of the year.

Many of the same faces appear on stands from year to year, and the team name is the same, but the players are wearing the colors change each year. So while the Kings since the series has been a finalist before, this team will do it for the first time and does a great job of it.

Fans who had a condition to expect the worst, and even now fear that the roof cave can not think of a certain illegally curved stick and its impact on Game 2, and during the series against Montreal. Do not worry. This group does not have superstars in 1993, the team made, but it has a strong will and unwavering mental toughness. They were wonderful work in earlier playoff rounds, ancient history, not to mention what happened in 1993.

All the things they have to win Game 2 on Saturday at Prudential Center, and not because of the 1993 team could not do it, but because it would put one victory closer to the goal they have never given up even the toughest downhills t his season.

“It’s part of the organization’s history, but I think when you brought here, we tried to start something new. We tried to start a new chapter of this organization,” defenseman Matt Greene said comparisons with the 1993 playoff run.

“You are proud of what they were doing before, but you want to write your own page in the history of this organization, and this is what we are trying to do right now.”

If 1993 was a benchmark for several generations of Kings fans, this team is ready to be a happier climax of this generation, and perhaps others.

center Jarrett Stoll said he remembers the 1993 playoffs, and to see the connection of the Kings.

“There are two different times, two different eras. Different hockey. Everything is a little different,” he said. “But the fans that we have a large part of the ninety-third is due to race. We must recognize and respect this, because we have a wide fan b ase.”

And these fans deserve a new peak to boast.

“We want to make their own history and make our own sound and the excitement and get the city’s LA rocker, and excited about hockey,” Stoll says. “Hopefully, we will do it. We have a long ways to go. We have a lot of work ahead of us to be where we want to be, but we are there.”

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