?together.For holidays, we'd buy each other Colorado Avalanche presents. Sure, our presents weren't equal, but what do you expect? I was still living on an elementary school student's budget and he was gainfully employed. He said he liked my gifts, just the same. I don't think it mattered that I gave him another Joe Sakic card, for the umpteenth time. We loved our team! Geographically, it was natural to cheer for the Avalanche. We only moved to the Denver area a few years before the team relocated from Quebec. Although geography made it convenient, it also didn't hurt that the team was amazing, right from the start.What my memory has forgotten, Wikipedia can fill in. In the each of the team's first ten seasons in Colorado, the Avalanche consecutively went to the playoffs, winning division titles eight times. The Avalanche was, and still is, the only team in the national league's history to win the Stanley Cup in a team's first season after being relocated.We were thrilled! Led by Joe Sakic and undoubtedly fortified by such powerhouses as Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy, the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup at the close of the 1995-1996 season, bringing Denver its first win by a professional team in a major championship.I remember a year later going to the sports store with my family to treat my sister to a graduation present. To my pleasure, and my sister's dismay, the rest of us got to pick something out too. I got the most beautiful black Joe Sakic shirt you ever saw. Parenthetically, I also picked out a white Avalanche shirt as well; I don't know why one wasn't enough. I was greedy, what more can I say?Joe Sakic is Retiring & I'm Getting Old - From:associatedcontent.com
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