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Colorado Avalanche notable players and award winners Note: This article does not include any player or data of the Quebec Nordiques.

Contents 1 Hall of Famers 2 Retired numbers 3 Team captains 4 First round draft picks 5 Awards winners and trophies 6 References 7 See also 8 External links 9 Honored members 10 Rivalries 11 Team colors and jersey

[edit] Hall of Famers

• Raymond Bourque, D, 2000-01, inducted 2004
• Jari Kurri, F, 1997-98, inducted 2001
• Patrick Roy, G, 1995-03, inducted 2006

[edit] Retired numbers

• 33 Patrick Roy, G, 1995-2003, number retired October 28, 2003
• 77 Ray Bourque, D, 2000-01, number retired November 24, 2001

Quebec also retired the number 3 of Jean-Claude (J.C.) Tremblay (D, 1972-79), the number 8 of Marc Tardif (LW, 1974-83), the number 16 of Michel Goulet (F, 1979-90), and the number 26 of Peter Stastny (F, 1980-90), but these numbers have been restored to circulation by Colorado. The number 99, formerly used by Wayne Gretzky is also retired league-wide since February 6, 2000.

[edit] Team captains

Note: This list of team captains does not include captains from the Quebec Nordiques (WHA &NHL).

• Joe Sakic, 1995- present
• Sylvain Lefebvre, 1997-98 (Interim)

[edit] First round draft picks

Note: This list does not include selections of the Quebec Nordiques.

• 1995: Marc Denis (25th overall)
• 1996: Peter Ratchuk (25th overall)
• 1997: Kevin Grimes (26th overall)
• 1998: Alex Tanguay (12th overall), Martin Skoula (17th overall), Robyn Regehr (19th overall), & Scott Parker (20th overall)
• 1999: Mikhail Kuleshov (25th overall)
• 2000: Vaclav Nedorost (14th overall)
• 2001: None
• 2002: Jonas Johansson (28th overall)
• 2003: None
• 2004: Wojtek Wolski (21st overall)
• 2005: None
• 2006: Chris Stewart (18th overall)

[edit] Awards winners and trophies

[edit] References

• Colorado Avalanche Database

[edit] See also

• Colorado Avalanche
• List of Colorado Avalanche players
• Head Coaches of the Colorado Avalanche
• Quebec Nordiques

[edit] External links

• The Internet Hockey Database
• Colorado Avalanche Official Web Site

[edit] Honored members

The Avalanche have retired two numbers: 77 of Ray Bourque and 33 of Patrick Roy.^[1] Ray Bourque played in the NHL for 22 seasons. He was traded to Colorado in 2000 so he could have a chance of winning the Stanley Cup before retiring.^[2] He won his only Stanley Cup in 2001, in the last season of his career, becoming the player who waited the most to win a Stanley Cup. Patrick Roy played from 1995 to 2003 in the Avalanche and won two Stanley Cups. He is the goaltender with more wins in the history of the NHL.

Both Bourque and Roy were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The only other Avalanche player to be inducted is Jari Kurri who played the last season of his career at the franchise.

Joe Sakic is the only captain the Avalanche have ever had.^[3] He was in both Avalanche Stanley cup winning teams, played his entire career in the franchise, has six individual NHL trophies and holds the franchise record for goals, assists and points. Peter Forsberg was also in both Stanley Cup winning teams and won 3 individual NHL trophies while playing for the Avalanche and one when the franchise was in Quebec. team colors & records

[edit] Rivalries

In 1996, the Colorado Avalanche met the Red Wings in the Eastern Conference Finals and won the series 4-2. Colorado would go on to win the Stanley Cup. During game 6 of those Conference Finals, as Red Wings player Kris Draper was skating backwards towards the bench, he was checked into the boards by Avalanche player Claude Lemieux.^[4] Draper bled a lot but, he didn't lose consciousness until being taken out of the ice and for a few moments. He had broken bones in the nose, jaw, cheekbone; damages to his right eye socket may had been made and five teeth were bent inward toward the throat.^[4] He was submitted to reconstructive surgery.^[5] After the incident, Lemieux recieved many threats from Red Wings players and fans, with goalie Chris Osgood being the first to issue one.^[4]

In the following season, in the last meeting between the two teams in the regular season, a brawl known as Brawl in Hockeytown occurred. The gamed ended with 9 fights, 11 goals, 39 penalties, 148 penalty minutes, one hat-trick (by Valeri Kamensky) and with a goalie fight between Stanley Cup champion goalies Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon.^[5] After two fights throught the first period, it was near the end of it that the brawl started. Peter Forsberg and Igor Larionov started fighting and then Darren McCarty hit Claude Lemieux. Patrick Roy came in aid of his teammate and collided against Brendan Shanahan. Mike Vernon joined the brawl and he had a "legendary scrap" with Roy.^[5] Four more fights occurred and the Red Wings ended up winning the game in overtime by 6-5.^[5] Both teams met again in the Conference Finals that season and Red Wings went on to win the Stanley Cup. In the following 5 years, the Avalanche and the Red Wings met 3 times in the playoffs, with Colorado winning the first two and losing the last.

This rivalry is considered one of the top rivalries in the NHL by the press and fans.^[6]

[edit] Team colors and jersey

The Colorado Avalanche logo is composed by a burgundy A with snow wrapped around, similar to an Avalanche. Around the logo, there's a blue oval.

The team's alternate logo is the foot of Bigfoot, a mythical creature, with a blue oval around it.

The Avalanche jerseys haven't changed since their first season, in 1995. The team colors are burgundy, blue and white. The home jersey, which was the team's road jersey until 2003 when the NHL decided to switch home and road jerseys,^[7] is dominantly burgundy and dark blue in color. There are two black and white zigzag lines along the jersey, one in the shoulders, the other near the belly. Between them, the jersey is burgundy, outside those lines it is dark blue. Similar lines exist around the neck. The Avalanche logo is in the center of the jersey. On top of the shoulders, there is the alternate logo, one on each side. The away jersey is similar, just with different colors. The burgundy part on the home jersey is white on the away jersey, the dark blue part is burgundy and the black and white lines became white and dark blue.

The Avalanche have introduced a third jersey during the 2001-02 season.^[8] It is dominantly burgundy. "Colorado" is spelled in a diagonal across the jersey where the logo is on the other jerseys. From the belly down, three large horizontal stripes, the first and the last being black and the middle one being white. In the middle of the arms, there are 5 stripes, black, white and burgundy from the outside inside in both sides.