Red Wings, Avalanche set to renew playoff hostilities
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| KK Hockey found this 4/24/2008 on www.hockey.com [flag] |
Detroit and Colorado again! Colorado media taking shots at Detroit, again! Detroit bloggers responding again and that puck hasn't even dropped yet! My memories of the Wings/Avs battles are just that, a memory. I tend to reflect on them every so often before looking forward to the games yet to be played. That is what is important to me today: games yet to be played and new memories to be made. ...
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Talking Avs
Published 4/24/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
It is all about the goaltending in the Avs/Wings series.
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Wings-Avs Rivalry renewed? Try rivalry, chapter two
Published 4/24/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
As the "media buzz," as Paul Kukla describes it , continues to crackle with 10,000-volt anticipation of tonight's first game of the Detroit Red Wings-Colorado Avalanche series, the Avs told ESPN/Denver Post columnist Terry Frei that this version of the Wings-Avs rivalry is different than the slug-fest of the late 90's: ...
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Click here for more NHL playoff previews. There was a time when the Red Wings-Avalanche rivalry was the fiercest in the sport. We're talking bench clearing brawls, Sports Illustrated covers and a whole lot of bad blood. Oh, and they occasionally ...Avs claim Theodore was ill
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