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Full of star power, Avs need star to follow

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, May 13, 2002

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Last year, when the Colorado Avalanche were trailing 3-2 in the finals and were within one loss of falling short of the Stanley Cup, a veteran defenseman stood up in the Continental Airlines visiting dressing room before Game 6. Uh, fellas, he said, this might be my "last kick at the Stanley Cup." (That phrasing later was passed along by a garrulous Finnish winger, Ville Nieminen, and like sportswriters who don't carry tape recorders or know shorthand, he might have not ha ...

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