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 have the all-time NHL record for the longest consecutive attendance sell outs at home games with 487.

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.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

Around the same time he was living in Denver, Colorado, where he hosted a show at local radio station KHIH on Sunday nights called " Gary Coleman's Colorado High ", where he played light jazz and new age music.

The Kansas City Wiz played their first game on April 13, 1996, defeating the Colorado Rapids at Arrowhead Stadium.

On April 17, 2008, during the series against the Colorado Rockies at PETCO Park, the Padres played the longest game in team history, in terms of innings ( 22 ), losing 2 – 1.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

The Astros honored Kile with a memorial plaque that hangs along the left field wall at Minute Maid Park under the 1997 Central Division Championship banner, the last season Kile played for Houston before signing with Colorado.

These stern-wheeler riverboats played an important part in the early development of the areas bordering the Colorado River.

* 1914-1916 Red Line Basketball Team marked telephone poles by day, played ball by night, marking the highway to Colorado.

* Víctor Santos ( born 1976 ), MLB relief pitcher who has played for the Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and the Baltimore Orioles.

When she was 16 years old, her family moved to Denver, Colorado where she was in amateur stage productions and played the organ in church.

For example, underlying the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, United States, intergroup dynamics played a significant role in Eric Harris ’ and Dylan Klebold ’ s decision to kill a teacher and 14 students ( including themselves ).

They played their first show in Colorado in March 1990, opening for Jerry Joseph's band Little Women.

Their current coach is Scott Owens, who played for Colorado College and graduated from the school in 1979.

The Colorado couldn't break the Uruguayan backline and the first leg, played at the Beira-Rio, finished 0-0.

Zevon often played in Colorado to allow for an opportunity to visit with his long-time friend Hunter S. Thompson.

Co-starring Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest and set in Colorado, the film follows a woman, played by Keaton, whose husband loses her much-beloved dog at a wedding held at their vacation home in the Rocky Mountains, resulting in a search party to find the pet.

Their first performance came on November 27, when they played a free concert at the base of Aspen mountain in Aspen, Colorado.

In Spring 2011, String Cheese Incident played a three-night run March 10 – 12 at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado which they called the " Winter Carnival 2011.

Oregon failed to qualify for the championship game, and thus played Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl.

* In the television sitcom Reba, where the character of Van Montgomery ( Steve Howey ), played for the Arizona Rattlers ( based on the Gold Helmets and ArenaBowl XVI banner seen when Reba visits the coach ) and later the Colorado Crush.

Known as a skilled and fast-skating offensive player, he played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and St. Louis Blues.