Eldritch's melancholic baritone, Craig Adams's pulsating bass, Doktor Avalanche's beat and Marx's flowing guitar led the band to early underground success.

Until the Avalanche's 2006 – 2007 season, no team in the history of the NHL had ever made it to 95 points without earning a spot in the playoffs.

The streak began on November 9, 1995, on the Avalanche's eighth regular season home game during the 1995 – 96 season, with an attendance of 16, 061 at the McNichols Sports Arena versus the Dallas Stars.

The team's alternate logo is the foot of a Sasquatch / Bigfoot and can be seen on the shoulders of the Avalanche's home and away jerseys.

Following two more seasons as the Avalanche's back-up, Aebischer became Colorado's starting goaltender following Roy's retirement in the summer of 2003.

Belfour backstopped his team to another consecutive finals appearance, winning his second seven game Western Conference final duel against the Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy.

He retired from the NHL on July 9, 2009, and had his jersey number retired prior to the Avalanche's 2009 – 10 season opener on October 1, 2009, at the Pepsi Center.

The regular season ended controversially, when in March 2004, Canucks ' Todd Bertuzzi performed an infamous hit that seriously injured Avalanche's Steve Moore, forcing the latter to retire.

On February 28, 1999, the Avalanche traded Belak, Rene Corbet, Robyn Regehr, and the Avalanche's second round draft pick at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft to the Calgary Flames for Theoren Fleury and Chris Dingman.

Near-riots happened when the team won the Super Bowl again the following year and after the Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup wins in 1996 and 2001.

In 1995, midway through the Avalanche's first season in Denver, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in the trade that moved Patrick Roy to the Avalanche.

During the 2007 – 08 season, the Chiefs served as the Avalanche's secondary minor league affiliate.

The Salem Avalanche's Kid's Club mascot, Big Mo is a giant abominable snowman.

The Avalanche's first mascot was this distinctive character, which resembled an almond.

May was also noted for allegedly putting the bounty on the head of the Colorado Avalanche's Steve Moore that ultimately resulted in the Todd Bertuzzi incident that essentially ended Moore's career.

The Western Conference won the competition 15 – 9, made memorable by hard-shooting defenseman Al MacInnis of the St. Louis Blues winning his seventh Hardest Shot event, and Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy allowed only a single goal through both of the Goaltending Competitions.

Despite the high-profile names missing from their roster, Atlanta Thrashers ' sniper Dany Heatley opened the scoring for the Eastern Conference by scoring a fine goal past Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy just five and a half minutes into the first period.

Colorado Avalanche's Peter Forsberg and Dallas Stars ' Mike Modano scored the next two goals to give the Western Conference a 2 – 1 lead.

In the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs, McCarty registered his first hat-trick in Game One of the Western Conference Finals against the Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy.

He served as the Colorado Avalanche's goaltending coach for three seasons following his playing career.

In 1995 – 96, his and the Avalanche's first season in the NHL, Yelle became a regular as he played in 71 games on route to the Stanley Cup Championship.

Following a strong performance in the Avalanche's second round loss in the playoffs, he returned to the Avalanche's AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears, during the 2004 NHL Lockout.

Wilson's first success came during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon and Oxford Group member who was unable to stay sober.

The goal of reaching the shores of the Aegean sea and completely occupying the region of Macedonia came to success.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

Coldcut's first mainstream success came when a representative from Island Records asked them to remix Eric B.

Further international success came in the UK and Europe with their third and fourth albums, Woodface and Together Alone and the compilation album Recurring Dream, which included the hits " Fall at Your Feet ", " Weather with You ", " Distant Sun ", " Locked Out ", " Instinct " and " Not the Girl You Think You Are ".

Champlain's success in the region, which came to be called Acadie, led to the fertile tidal marshes surrounding the southeastern and northeastern reaches of the Bay of Fundy being populated by French immigrants who called themselves Acadien.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's " Put it off Until Tomorrow " and Skeeter Davis ' 1967 hit " Fuel to the Flame ".

Changes in educational establishments came about as Americans and Europeans felt they had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically after the success of Sputnik in October, 1957.

When it came out in 1975, Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was an enormous success in Norway, selling 1 million tickets in its first year of release.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

Her first real success came in 1975 with the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye, which established her as a disco artist.

After the 1986 season came and went, the team had difficulty finding success again.

Bogart was proud of his success, but the fact that it came from playing a gangster weighed on him.

Viking raids began on Scottish shores towards the end of the 8th century and the Hebrides came under Norse control and settlement during the ensuing decades, especially following the success of Harald Fairhair at the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872.

Major success came in 1901 with the invention of the spiral hairpin by New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward.

However, because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, the term PC came to mean more specifically a microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products.

When it came out in 1975, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was an enormous success in Norway, selling 1 million tickets in its first year of release.

The demise of the impi finally came about with the success of European colonization of Africa-first in southern Africa by the British, and finally in East Africa as German colonialists defeated the last of the impi-style formations under Mkawawa, chief of the Hehe of Tanzania.

Cagney Productions was not a great success, however, and in 1953, after William Cagney produced his last film, A Lion Is in the Streets, the company came to an end.

The city came to be ruled by the Hasmoneans, following the success of the Maccabean Revolt, and remained such until the Roman influence over the area brought Herod to claim the Hasmenean throne of Judea.

In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

A second wave of success came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, led by Kent Hrbek, Bert Blyleven, Frank Viola, and Kirby Puckett, winning the franchise's second and third World Series ( and first in Minnesota ).

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.