As If We Needed Another Reason

As if we needed another reason to attend the home opener, the Avalanche have announced that they will be having a reunion for the 1995-96 Stanley Cup winning team. A lot of details are still to be released, but they did say that they will be honoring the team prior to the team's home opener on October 7th vs. the Chicago Blackhawks (whose head coach conveniently is Joel Quenneville, one of the Avs' assistant coaches back in '96).

It's only been since April that we've been able to attend an Avs game, so it's not like any of us were itching to go to the home opener anyway. Last year, it was Joe Sakic's jersey retirement ceremony and this year it's going to be honoring Denver's first professional sports championship team. The Avs may be establishing a new tradition of holding a big celebration every year when the season begins. Even if they don't plan to continue this trend, it should be a fun night for fans to see the original Avalanche team that came to Denver and won our hearts.

View the article on the Avs official site here.