DENVER — It was 21 years ago when a 35-year-old Marc Crawford coached the Colorado Avalanche to the Stanley Cup title.
It doesn’t take much prompting to get him to recall the details and the legends involved.
“It brings back an awful lot of good memories,” the Ottawa Senators associate coach said of returning to the scene of the success. “Any time you win a Stanley Cup — it’s so hard to win — your thoughts go back to all the great players. Every time I come back here, I think of Patrick Roy, Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Adam Foote, (Valeri) Kamensky.