The Streak will die at 25.

As we pour out a Vernors for what may go down as the last legendary playoff run by a professional sports franchise, we got to thinking.

What was the world — and, by extension, the NHL — like the last time the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs?

The year was 1989-90.

Saddam Hussein was invading Kuwait. The Simpsons were only in their premiere season. Germanies east and west were making nice again. Early adopters were raving about Windows 3.0. The Milli Vanilli lip sync scandal left us confused and betrayed. And a not-so-insignificant portion of us briefly considered hooking after watching Pretty Woman for the fourth time on two-buck Tuesdays.

A bunch of stuff happened in the National Hockey League that year, too.

It’s the NHL Power Rankings: Last Time the Red Wings Missed the Playoffs… Edition.

As usual, all 30 teams are ranked in order of current strength (hey, a new leader), but this time the individual write-ups focus on where they were in 1989-90 — the last, long hockey-free summer in Motown.