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Article: Game 7 is first since '94: ; Bourque's bid only part of Stanley Cup drama
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 9, 2001
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DENVER - The Stanley Cup will be in the house. So close, Ray
Bourque and the Colorado Avalanche can almost touch it - yet, to the
New Jersey Devils, so near but so far away.
Game 7s in the Stanley Cup finals occur only once a decade or so,
which will add some extra mystique when the defending-champion
Devils, their chance to clinch the cup at home now gone, play the
Avalanche tonight for the top prize in hockey.
It will be the first time since 1994 that the cup is guaranteed
to be handed off at some point in the night, and only the third time
since 1971 - the last time a team pulled off what the Avalanche are
attempting to do by rallying from a 3-2 deficit in the finals.
Game 7s in any ...