After defeating the St. Louis Blues in seven games the Wings would fall in the Western Conference Finals to the eventual champion Colorado Avalanche.

After defeating the St. Louis Blues, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Colorado Avalanche in the first three rounds, the Wings went on to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals.

* Mark Olver, hockey player for the Colorado Avalanche.

Messier, a former Oiler teammate of Gretzky's, left in the summer of 1997 and the team failed in a bid to replace him with Colorado Avalanche superstar Joe Sakic.

The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey franchise based in Denver, Colorado.

Coincidentally, the Devils had preceded the Avalanche in Denver ; they were called the Colorado Rockies.

The franchise was presented as the Colorado Avalanche on August 10, 1995.

The Colorado Avalanche played their first game in the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver ( where the Denver Nuggets once played ) on October 6, 1995, winning 3 – 2 against the Detroit Red Wings.

In 1998 – 99, with the addition of the Nashville Predators to the league, the NHL realigned their divisions and the Colorado Avalanche were put in the new Northwest Division.

It was in the 1999 – 2000 season that the Colorado Avalanche played their first game in the new Pepsi Center, that cost 160 million US dollars.

On February 4, 2001, the Colorado Avalanche hosted the 51st NHL All-Star Game.

The injury was a huge upset for the team ; former NHL goaltender Darren Pang considered it " devastating ... to the Colorado Avalanche.

The Colorado Avalanche had nine players representing six countries.

Although the salary cap was a blow to one of the highest spenders of the league, the Colorado Avalanche finished the 2005 – 06 regular season with a 43 – 30 – 9 record for 95 points, good enough to finish second in the Northwest Division, seven behind the Calgary Flames and tied with the Edmonton Oilers.

With a 9 to 5 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday, December 9, 2007, the Colorado Avalanche gained their 1, 000th franchise victory.

On May 9, 2008, the Colorado Avalanche Organization announced that Joel Quenneville would not return to coach the team next season.

Colorado would go on to receive the highest draft pick in Avalanche history, third overall.

Earning only 68 points in the standings, setting a franchise record for losing and winless streaks after the All-Star break, the Colorado Avalanche have seen their worst season yet since moving to Denver.

In 1996, the Colorado Avalanche met the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals and won the series 4 – 2.

The Colorado Avalanche logo is composed by a burgundy letter A with snow wrapped around, similar to an avalanche, in the shape of the letter C. There is a hockey puck in the lower – right end of the snow and a blue oval on the background.

For the full season-by-season history, see List of Colorado Avalanche seasons

Samara is also home to Semyon Varlamov of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, as well as young up and coming tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

The Nuggets play their home games at the Pepsi Center, which they share with the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL.

Drs. Howry and Holmes at the University of Colorado Medical School have applied the same sonar technique to other areas of soft tissue and have obtained extremely good results.

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Shoup have returned to their home in Colorado Springs after spending a few days at the Brown Palace Hotel.

More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

The Colorado Rockies have won one National League championship ( 2007 ).

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

The Rockies have placed Matsui in the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox minor league team.

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

After World War II increasing encroachment on wilderness land evoked the continued resistance of conservationists, who succeeded in blocking a number of projects in the 1950s and 1960s, including the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam that would have backed up the waters of the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon National Park.

The University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine and Colorado State University's School of Veterinary Medicine are two of the main centers where veterinary laparoscopy got started and have excellent training programs for veterinarians interested in getting started in MIS.

* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

The four states bordering Mexico ( Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California ), and the other southwest states such as Colorado, Nevada and Utah have large expatriate Mexican populations, which in effect has produced a wide variety of authentic Mexican restaurants.

The University of Waterloo and University of Colorado conducted simulations in 2005 that indicated that the early atmosphere of Earth could have contained up to 40 percent hydrogen — implying a much more hospitable environment for the formation of prebiotic organic molecules.

In some communities, such as Littleton, Colorado, organized opposition groups have forced educational agencies to rescind reforms.

When the prisoners were interrogated, it became clear that the information possessed by the guerrillas, who had planned to assassinate Stroessner, could have come only from a high Colorado official.

Relations between Paraguay and Venezuela have improved since Paraguay's new leftist President Fernando Lugo was inaugurated, a change from 61 unbroken years of Colorado party rule.

The team continued this run of success with wins over the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS ( 3 games to 1 ) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS ( 4 games to 1 ), to become the first Phillies team to win back-to-back pennants and the first National League team since the 1996 Atlanta Braves to have an opportunity to defend their World Series title.

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 10, 000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona ; Eldorado, Texas ; Westcliffe, Colorado ; Mancos, Colorado ; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia ; and Pringle, South Dakota.

The cities of Berkeley, California, and Boulder, Colorado, have passed laws stating that people who have pets do not " own " them ; rather, they are the pet's " guardian.

" Subsequently, New Jersey, Colorado, Massachusetts and Puerto Rico courts have adopted the doctrine ; California's courts have repeatedly reaffirmed it.