12 current Red Wings players weren’t even alive when the team last missed the playoffs
Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports
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Saturday, the Detroit Red Wings qualified for the NHL playoffs for the 25th year in a row. A streak that already sounds ridiculous, but let’s take a second and think about what that really means.
The last time the Red Wings failed to make the playoffs was the 89-90 season. Here’s what the world looked like then:
- George H.W. Bush was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
- Michael Jordan was a basketball player and not a meme
- “Home Alone,” like, the original “Home Alone,” came out
- Television was only available in black and white, probably
- Colorado was a good college football team
- Minimum wage was $4.25
- 12 players on the current Red Wings roster had not been born yet
- There were still two different Germanys
- Jaromir Jagr was still a professional hockey pla-- wait, he’s doing what now?
- MC Hammer released “U Can’t Touch This”
- I did not exist yet
So, yeah, congrats to the Red Wings for a quarter century of consistency.
