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Article: AVALANCHE 4, RED WINGS 1 Colorado buries Detroit's dream Best team in regular season bows out again
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1996
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Another season is over. Another dream dies.
Another summer of second-guessing, hand-wringing and frustration
begins.
The 1995-'96 Detroit Red Wings, the greatest team in National
Hockey League regular-season history, proved once again they are
just that: a great regular-season team, not a great playoff team.
Not a champion.
It ended Wednesday night at McNichols Arena with a 4-1 loss to
the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.
It ended with a three-goal outburst in the second period that sent
these Red Wings into summer.
And so it is Colorado, not Detroit, that advances to the Stanley
Cup finals.
Joe Sakic led the Avalanche with two goals and an assist, and
Patrick ...