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Who needs the Olympics with these Cup playoffs?

By Al Morganti
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, May 16, 2002

The Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings are in the position to provide the passion play of emotion that embodies the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Avalanche are likely to be drained at the start of the series, the result of their two seven-game series which got them to this point, but it will not take long to bring the encounter to a full boil. The Avalanche and Red Wings, each winners of two Cups since 1996 (Colorado in 1996 and 2001, Detroit in 1997 and 1998), are playing for more than a li ...

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