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MIAMI: Patrick Roy was one goal better than Florida goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck as the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers to win the first major sports championship for the city of Denver. Uwe Krupp scored the game's only goal at 4:31 of the third overtime to give Colorado a 4-0 sweep and the Stanley Cup. In the team's first season in Denver after 16 lackluster years as the Quebec Nordiques, the Avalanche quickly won over the city. "The fans adopted the team as if it had been around for years," says TIME Denver bureau chief Richard...
...this is a symptom of sport, not just soccer. Roger Neilson nearly led the expansion and relatively talent-barren Florida Panthers to the NHL playoffs last year by emphasizing the clutch-and-grab tactics of the neutral zone trap and banking on good goal-tending (i.e. John Vanbiesbrouck) to save them when the trap failed...
...Coach Kevin Constantine has somehow overcome the language barrier to teach his team the fundamentals of team defense, and just as Florida almost rode John Vanbiesbrouck to the playoffs in its first year of NHL existence, San Jose has a true cash cow in Irbe, who outshined the Maple Leafs' more Heralded Felix Potvin in Game...
...Everything teams. There is an All-Windex team for good rebounders (glass cleaners in Dick Vitale parlance). There is the All-Madden team on the tube every year. And, in the latest Sports Illustrated, there is an All-Scrabble team of hockey players like Beukeboom, Wickenheiser, and Vanbiesbrouck...
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