| Show r A r f By Eric Bresee Sports Editor Co-Editor Some people think of Memorial Day as the first holiday of the sum sum- mer Some people think of Memorial Day as the last day off from school before the end of the school year Few think of it as what Memorial Day is designed for Memorial Day was designed to pay tribute to our fallen comrades in inthe inthe inthe the battles we as a nation have fought Last Monday I had to pay tribute to fallen comrades of my own On May 26 at approximately pm p.m. the defending Stanley Cup Champion Colorado Avalanche were declared clinically dead The Stanley Cup champions were born June 10 1996 on an Uwe Krupp that beat Florida Panther goalie John Over the last two years the Avs endured conflict and controversy First came the Claude Lemieux- Lemieux Kris Draper incident in Game 6 of last years year's conference finals Lemieux hit Draper from behind and Draper careened into the boards face first The hit literally shattered Drapers Draper's face requiring extensive plastic surgery Then came the trades Gone from the team that defeated the Panthers in four games during the Stanley Cup Finals were goalie Stephane Fiset enforcer Chris Simon and defense- defense man Curtis In return the Avs got forwards Eric Lacroix and Keith Jones Finally came the March 26 game in Detroit this year Darren McCarty sucker-punched sucker Lemieux sending him to ice Lemieux stayed in the fetal position allowing Draper to fire at will The Avalanche survived by Head Coach Marc Crawford who unknowingly sealed the Lanches Lanche's fate with his timed ill-timed over the glass tirade your plate directed at Detroit Red Wing coach Scotty Bowman Forward Peter Forsberg whose thighs have gone from the objects of women's desires to the desire of opposing players player's knees twice this year he has missed games due to a charley horse Goalie Patrick Roy who couldn't hear his pre-Game pre 4 speech because he had two Stanley Cup rings plugging plugging plugging plug plug- ging his ears he was wearing his third as a dunce cap Forward Claude Lemieux who got shellacked in the March 26 game in which Roy had to come to Lemieux's defense Forward Mike Keane sparked Detroit by claiming they were heartless heartless heartless heart less and gutless after the March 26 game in Detroit Forward Adam led the Lanche in the goals for the regular regular regular regu regu- lar season with 33 only to have 3 in inthe inthe inthe the playoffs Center Joe who after being a part of many dismal Quebec teams may have endured one final disappointment is in inthe inthe inthe the final year of his contract Yes I realize there is always next year but I waited for next year 12 times with the Jazz before they got to the Finals I am not going to wait another 12 years before Colorado gets back to the Stanley Cup Finals In lieu of flowers money cards gifts or other senseless things that grieving people could care less about send well okay send money to the Avalanche Fans Suicide Watch in care of Horizon |
