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Avalanche only left to merely pick up the pieces.(The Gazette)
DENVER _ The end seemed to come so suddenly, a flurry of Detroit goals knocking the Colorado Avalanche into nothing but a memory.
But the beginning of the end can be traced to last June.
That's when Colorado won the Stanley Cup. It's when a satisfied Ray Bourque retired. It's when the roster and Colorado's motivation to win took fatal blows.
Ultimately, those factors brought Colorado defense hopes to a crashing end in the 2002 Western Conference finals.
The 2001-02 Avs were not as good as the championship team of a year earlier. The 19-point drop-off in the regular-season standings showed it in black and white. The struggle for consistency in the playoffs colored the picture in.
Bourque was gone. So was defenseman Jon Klemm. The Avs replaced their 46 minutes of ice time and 47 points with the likes of Pascal Trepanier and Bryan Muir.
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