AVALANCHE GIVES FISET FITS : KINGS MAKE A RUN, BUT STILL WINLESS SINCE ALL-STAR BREAK COLORADO 6, KINGS 3.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The Colorado Avalanche The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1996 and 2001. welcomed back goalie Patrick Roy Patrick Jacques Roy (IPA pronunciation: [ʁwa]), (born October 5, 1965, in Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada — a suburb of Quebec City) is a retired ice hockey goaltender. and greeted Roy's former backup Stephane Fiset Stephane Fiset (born June 17, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is an ice hockey goaltender who is retired. Playing career Fiset was drafted in the 2nd round 24th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques. with an avalanche of goals Wednesday night. Claude Lemieux Claude Lemieux (born July 16, 1965 in Buckingham, Quebec) is a former professional ice hockey player active in the National Hockey League from 1983 to 2003. He is one of only eight players in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with three different teams. and Scott Young For other uses, see Scott Young (disambiguation). Scott Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. each scored twice, and both scored during a four-goal first period, sparking Colorado to a 6-3 victory over the Kings. The Kings - 0-4-1 since the All-Star break, saddled with the NHL's worst power-play percentage and successful on only three of their previous 32 man-advantage opportunities - trailed 5-0 in the second period before Kevin Stevens broke through on a power play at 8:54. The Kings got another goal at 14:10 when Yanic Perreault took a drop pass from Stevens and fired a hard shot past Roy. Then Kings rookie Kai Nurminen scored his 11th goal at 17:08, skating past Jon Klemm on a breakaway and nudging the puck past Roy just before dislodging the net. But Roy, who had missed the previous two games with a sprained right thumb suffered against Pittsburgh last Thursday, had 29 saves. The win was the 335th of Roy's career, tying him with Gump Worsley for eighth place in NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there history. Fiset, traded from Colorado to the Kings last June but making his first appearance in Colorado since the deal, faced a 44-shot onslaught and had 38 saves. Young and Lemieux each scored first-period goals as the Avalanche jumped to a 4-0 lead, and Lemieux's goal early in the second period made it 5-0. After the Kings scored three straight goals later in the period, Young scored again at 3:26 of the third. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Kings center Yanic Perreault knocks the helmet off Colorado's Adam Foote, but the Kings were knocked off by the Avalanche. Associated Press |
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