

Kings Ransom
August 9th, 1988. The day Canada froze over
On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen. The Edmonton Oilers, fresh off their fourth Stanley Cup victory in five years, signed a deal that sent Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian national treasure and the greatest hockey player ever to play the game, to the Los Angeles Kings in a multi-player, multi-million dollar deal. As bewildered Oiler fans struggled to make sense of the unthinkable, fans in Los Angeles were rushing to purchase season tickets at a rate so fast it overwhelmed the Kings box office. Overnight, a franchise largely overlooked in its 21-year existence was suddenly playing to sellout crowds and standing ovations, and a league often relegated to “little brother” status exploded from 21 teams to 30 in less than a decade.
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- English
- sports
- biography
- ice hockey
- los angeles, california
- sports documentary
- nhl
- edmonton
- edmonton oilers
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- TV6 Oct 2009
AustraliaAU
- TV23 May 2010
CanadaCA
- Premiere13 Sept 2009
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT10Disney+28 Jan 2022
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