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Statistically speaking, who got the best of the Detroit Red Wings vs. Colorado Avalanche rivalry? | |
Any info on head to head match ups, number of stanley cups, playoff head to head records, fight wins/losses, etc. from the start of the rivalry (I beleive this to be the first year they met in playoffs) until the "end", when both teams didn't meet or go deep into playoffs would also be appreciated. Surely someone out there has a spreadsheet with all this. I get goosebumps thinking back to the game of McCarty vs. Lemieux and Vernon vs. Roy. I doubt i'll see anything like this rivalry during my lifetime again. That was a hell of a run for both teams, but who actually came out on top....
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1The rivalry was pretty even. The cups were 3-2 in favor of Detroit. The series that started it had Colorado on top in 6 games after Lemieux laid a dirty hit to Draper giving him a broken jaw, cheek and orbital bone, which required surgery and numerous stitches. The next year, McCarty turtled Lemieux and Roy was clotheslined by Shanahan. 12 players were actually fighting including Roy and Vernon, and they were surrounded by everyone else. Detroit won that night in OT on McCarty's goal and eventually the cup; that year and the next. The most interesting thing about it all is that Roy almost got to fight 3 different goalies, Vernon, Osgood, and almost Hasek, who tripped on a stick in '02 before he could get to him.
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