Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide — page 3
So Bourque requested that the Bruins trade him to a team that had a chance to win In March 2000 the Bruins did just that sending their captain to Colorado With superstar forwards Sakic and Peter Forsberg plus veteran goalie Patrick Roy the Avs had the pieces in place to make a run With Bourque manning the blue line the Avs indeed made a run However it ended one game short of the Stanley Cup Final The Dallas Stars beat Colorado in seven games in that year’s Western Conference finals Bourque was 40 years old that season But having come so close he decided to come back and make one more run at the Cup in 2000 01 This time the Avs couldn’t be stopped They won an NHL-best 52 games during the regular season In the playoffs they forced their way past the Vancouver Canucks Los Angeles Kings and St Louis Blues That set up a Stanley Cup Final against the powerful New Jersey Devils