The showdown with the Kings was a good game featuring lots of flow, and two goals that outshined the rest...
The first saw Pavel Bure dump the puck in, forcing Charlie Huddy behind his goal line to pick it up. Bure pursued to the bottom of the circle, then peeled off back toward the blue line where he intercepted Huddy's pass to Mike Donnelly. With the Kings headed up ice, Bure sped the other way, using Jyrki Lumme as a decoy in the slot, (to freeze the Kings Goalie), then he feathered a pass to Krutov all alone at the far post. Easy tap in!
Bure Intercepts Pass
The second witnessed a passing clinic by Wayne Gretzky and Tomas Sandstrom. As the two King forwards drove toward our goal, they exchanged a series of quick, pinpoint passes that hypnotized our rearguards. With each successive pass our defenders became a little less steady until Gretzky was finally able to step around Jeff Brown. It was all the opening Wayne needed as he picked the far corner from the edge of the crease.
(Some may say Brownie made the mistake of letting him go, but if anyone's to blame, it's us coaches for telling the guys to play a +1 Pressure game).
Sandstrom to Gretzky
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