The story of the colorado avalanche 

welcome back all right today's history

video is going to be on the colorado

avalanche and it includes the quebec

nordics as well uh when you get to

retired numbers uh the retired numbers

for the nordics were not brought over to

the colorado avalanche

im always interested to see how teams

are going to play that are they are they

going to honor those numbers are they

going to leave them retired how are they

going to do it so they just started

fresh in colorado but when we look at

AlUTime Points

the all-time points leaders this is for

both and obviously sakic who played for

both uh 130

games played 626 goals 1016 assists 1

641 points easily the leader in points i

nobody's going to catch them sorry

nathan mckinnon i dont think it's going

to happen

peter stasny's number twO on the list in

737 games with the quebec nordiques

380

goals 668 assists 1048 points

so two one thousand point scorers in

this team's franchise history not bad

michelle qulak should have had a

thousand points in quebec but he wanted

out he went to chicagoi had 813 games

played for him 456 goals 490 assists 946

points excellent sniper that michelle

goulet uh milan hayduke 1020 games

played 375 goals 430 assists 805 points

for him uh

phillip forsberg

is with nashville peter forsberg played

for colorado that got myself peter

forsberg 591 games played 217 goals

538

assists 755 points for forsberg nathanmckinnon 638 games played 242 goals

406

assists 648 points so with the play that

he's he's displayed over the last few

years he is now above a point per game

in his career uh which says a lot

considering there were some slow years

before he really turned it around uh

anton stasny in 650 games with the

quebec nordics had 252 goals 384

assists

for 636 points

gabe landisgog is going to be looking to

pass him at some point over the next

year or so in 738 games played 248 goals

323 assists for 571 points alex tange

598 games played 167 goals 321 assists

488 points and dale hunter is in 10th

place 535 games 142 goals 322 assists

464 points at some point over the next

couple seasons well see ransom moving

into that list as well and bumping dale

hunter out the all-time wins leader has

Numbers

to be patrick wah doesn't it 262 wins of

varalamov with 183 dan bouchard had

107

for the quebec nordics uh budai 101 and

abasher had 89 with the nordics or with

the avalanche i should say now the

retired numbers in blue are the retired

numbers for the colorado avalanche joe

sakic's 19 forsberg's 21 hey duke's 23

patrick was 33 adam footes 52 and

raymond borks 77 so nobody was single

digits which seems odd because

normally

those are the first ones to go uh the

nordics a couple single digits there

number three of jc tremblay number eight

of mark tardiff number 16 michelle

goulet number 26 peter stasny uh mark

tardif is a quy who really is kind of a

forgotten superstar because he played alot in the wha before playing in the nhl

and those wha totals don't count by nhl

standards uh the playoffs since 2000

well in 2000 they were still close

enough to that 1996 stanley cup they

were looking for another one uth they

lost the conference final that year

against dallas in seven dallas then lost

the final i believe that was in seven

against new jersey as well great

playoffs back then uh 2001

colorado wins the stanley cup 2002 they

lost the conference final in seven

against the detroit red wings 2003 they

lose in the first round in seven against

minnesota and they wouldn't see the

conference final again until this year

2004 they lost in the second round

against san jose that was in six 2006

they lose in the second round again that

is a sweep at the hands of the anaheim

ducks 2008 they lost in the second round

in a sweep against the detroit red wings2010 they lose in the first round in six

against the san jose sharks 2014

they lost in round one and seven against

the minnesota wild so minnesota's had

their number a little bit haven't they i

and again

it's a different era right so uh then

2018 after some years outside the

playoffs including one complete disaster

of a season in 2018 they lose in the

first round and six against nashville

2019 they lost in the second round

against san jose and seven 2020 they

lost in the second round and seven

against dallas they did try to come back

they almost won that series with michael

hutchinson annette they're number three

2021 they lost in the second round and

six against vegas

and this year of course they won the

stanley cup the long-awaited stanley cup

return for the colorado avalanche

although 21 years compared to a lot of

other teams in the league not that long

uh cup years 1996 2001 and 2022 their

History

arena since 2000 i liked it better when

it was pepsi center but it's bal arena

now soeverybody gets a bit of a chuckle uh

coaching history there's been 15 coaches

for the nordics and the abs

starting with jacques demers 25 44 and

11 yeah he was their coach the first

year uh jared bednar of course is her

coach now and probably forever he's he

won the stanley cup so itll be a while

240 wins 168 losses and 46 losses and

Overtime shootouts

the first goal in the history of the

franchise by the quebec nordics was

scored by real clutch and that's of

course national hockey leagu.