Actually, that s not giving the Kings enough credit, but when one looks upon the events that transpired just for the Kings to make the playoffs, you can make a pretty darn good case for some kind of planetary alignment. Call any Kings fan, though, on that fateful February day, and I m sure that about 85 percent of them were throwing their jerseys away or retiring them into the Hall of Shame. I would have been one of them, thinking that they blew any playoff hopes that they might have had at that point. But Adam Deadmarsh and Aaron Miller have been spectacular, and Dave Taylor made a shrewd move by picking up Felix Potvin, a Maple Leaf, in the 1993 series that the Kings won from Vancouver and finally putting a quality goalie in net.
Playoff hopes renewed.
Even then, the Kings were counted out, because they were playing a quality and veteran team in Detroit. So apparently fate wasn't on their side. Until game four, that is. Well, maybe game one, when Steve Yzerman went out with what would eventually be a broken fibula. However, game four set the stage for what is the Cinderella story of the playoffs.