The revelry will have to wait.
The Tampa Bay Lightning stopped a Mile High Celebration Friday night, even as thousands of Coloradans gathered in downtown Denver hoping to mark the city’s first major professional championship since the 2016 Super Bowl. Instead, the Colorado Avalanche will head back to Florida, with hopes of bringing back a Stanley Cup.
As the final buzzer sounded, the thousands gathered at Tivoli Quad for the official watch party poured out, if not visibly frustrated than illustratively so with certain fingers pointed at the screen.
When faced with the Avs’ loss, Kat Cordova, 28, described herself as “a little disappointed, a little sad, a little apprehensive about going back to Florida and their bad ice.