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Exactly 20 years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning, the Colorado Avalanche secured a victory that brought the first-ever major sports championship to Colorado. They won the Stanley Cup.
The team was just nine months into their tenure here in Colorado, though the franchise had been relocated from Quebec earlier in the summer. We here in Colorado were still trying to figure out what this hockey stuff was. We’d had it before, but not like this. Never like this.
This was a special team filled with superstars whose names we still whisper with reverence.