I want to go back to the North Stars run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 8081.

But, you know, in doing that, Lou, I think we actually have to go back to the end,

at least, of the previous year, right?

Because that's where the momentum really began for that team to take off.

Right.

We, you know, we had a pretty good year the year before,

and we had a lot of young guys that we had drafted in 78 and 79, and the teams started coming together.

And so when you look at it, even though we didn't end up very high in the standings,

the year that we went to the finals, but we were resented to come.

And probably the key was the big fight in Boston that year before the end of the season.

We've never, in the history of our franchise, had won a game in Boston from 1967 to that

time.

And that's when we, you know, had a huge fight that did again some or so I think we've got to make a statement,

but we go ahead and do it.

And so we were in Boston right near the end of the year.

We knew we were going to play Boston because we were sort of locked in.

They were locked in.

So we had the site starting about the six-second mark with Bobby Smith, and by the end

of the game, I think we had five guys on the bench, and they had six guys on a bench.

And we ended up losing a game, but that really turned it around because then we went

in the playoffs.

We had two games in Boston.

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