Colorado Avalanche Milestones

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How the Colorado Avalanche history timeline works

This deck tells the Avalanche story through twenty-five franchise moments, each with a short description printed under the title. You order them by year. One moment is placed on the timeline to begin with, and its year is showing. Each new card goes into a gap of your choice; the right gap reveals its year, and the wrong one moves it to its real spot and costs you one of your three lives.

A big part of this deck happens before the team ever played in Denver, back when the franchise was a fierce provincial rival of Montreal. That section is full of defections, brawls and draft-day drama, while the Colorado years bring titles, rivalries and a rebuild. A card about a bitter feud could belong to either city, so read who the opponent was before you commit.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Founded as the Quebec Nordiques The franchise begins in Quebec City in a rival pro league
Won the WHA's Avco Cup The Nordiques claim their rival league's championship
Joined the NHL in the merger The Nordiques are absorbed into the NHL with three other clubs
Stastny brothers defected to Quebec Peter and Anton escape Czechoslovakia to sign in Quebec
Peter Stastny won Rookie of the Year The defector center takes the Calder in a record debut
Dale Hunter's overtime goal ousted Montreal A Game 5 winner over the Canadiens sends Quebec forward
Good Friday brawl with Montreal A pregame and postgame melee erupts in a heated playoff series
Game 7 overtime win over Montreal Peter Stastny's winner ends a bitter series with the Canadiens
Drafted Joe Sakic A future captain is picked in the middle of the draft
Drafted Mats Sundin first overall The first European ever taken with the top pick
Drafted Eric Lindros, who refused to sign The top pick declines to play for the small-market club
Traded Lindros in a franchise-altering deal A package of players and cash rebuilds the roster overnight
Relocated to Denver as the Avalanche The franchise leaves Quebec for the Rocky Mountains
First Cup, a sweep of Florida Uwe Krupp's triple-overtime goal completes a four-game sweep
Brawl-filled rivalry game with Detroit A blood feud with the Red Wings boils over on the ice
Moved into the Pepsi Center The team leaves McNichols for a new downtown arena
Acquired Ray Bourque at the deadline A trade brings the veteran defenseman west to chase a title
Bourque's Game 7 Cup over New Jersey A deciding-game win finally earns the veteran his ring
Lost a Game 7 conference final to Detroit A deciding game against the archrival ends the reign
Patrick Roy retired The star goaltender steps away after a Hall of Fame career
Drafted Nathan MacKinnon first overall A hometown-region star is taken with the top pick
MacKinnon won Rookie of the Year The young center claims the Calder in his debut season
Bottomed out with a franchise-worst record A 48-point season marks the low before a rapid rebuild
Presidents' Trophy season The rebuilt team finishes atop the overall standings
Cup over Tampa Bay A six-game Final win ends Tampa's title run