If you're 25 years old or younger, you've never seen the Stanley Cup playoffs without the Detroit Red Wings. With the Boston Bruins' loss Saturday to the spoilin' Ottawa Senators, the Red Wings qualified for the postseason for the 25th consecutive season.
The last time they missed the Red Wings playoffs? The math takes you back to April 1, 1990. No fooling. What the world was like 25 years ago:
George H.W. Bush was the President of the United States. Mikhail Gorbachev is President of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall is two months away from being demolished.