By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer DENVER—Colorado’s Patrick Roy is retiring, ending the 18-year career of one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history. Roy will make the announcement at a news conference today, team spokesman Jean Martineau said. A four-time Stanley Cup champion, Roy leaves as the NHLs career leader in victories with 551 …
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Finally, Bourque gets Stanley Cup DENVER — Mission accomplished. After 22 seasons of chasing the Stanley Cup, 40-year-old defenseman Ray Bourque finally hoisted the coveted trophy Saturday night in front of his family and 18,000 others who have adopted him as a Colorado native. Bourque, denied in 20 previous playoff appearances, could not have written …
JIM MATHESON Journal Hockey Writer How do you measure how damaging a blow Claude Lemieux’s OT winner was Friday? If you’re the Colorado Avalanche, it’s in feats and inches. Lemieux, who never met an NHL playoff game he didn’t like, stuck a knife in the Oilers, beating Curtis Joseph with his 11th shot of the …
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From News Services The Colorado Avalanche will be without Joe Sakic for the opening game of its first-round playoff series with Edmonton tonight after he was assessed a one-game suspension by the NHL on Tuesday. Sakic, MVP of the playoffs during Colorado’s Stanley Cup championship season two years ago, also was fined $1,000 — the …
Red Wings 6 Avalanche 5 DETROIT — Darren McCarty helped Detroit settle an old score with Colorado’s Claude Lemieux and also scored the winning goal 39. seconds into overtime as the Red Wings took a fight-filled victory over the Avalanche. The Red Wings’ lone victory in four meetings with the defending NHL champions was also …
By CANADIAN PRESS Below is the full game The bad blood that had been simmering between the Vancouver Canucks and Colorado Avalanche finally boiled over Monday night. A convincing 9-2 Avalanche victory was overshadowed by Vancouver’s Todd Bertuzzi sucker-punching Colorado’s Steve Moore that left the rookie forward face down on the ice, lying in a …
Bourque era ends in Boston BOSTON (AP) — Ray Bourque wanted to win the Stanley Cup before he retired. He also wanted to finish his career in Boston. When it became clear that he wouldn’t be able to do both, Bourque asked to be traded to a contender. And the Bruins accommodated him on Monday …
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