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Avalanche really wanted to play hockey
Wednesday night.
They didn't
In conjunction with the NHL, the
teams postponed the first two games
of their opening-round Stanley Cup
playoff series because of the tragic
events a day earlier at Columbine High
School in suburban Littleton, Colo.
Using a cache of guns and pipe
bombs, two male students allegedly
murdered 13 people and injured more
than 20 others before apparently killing
themselves.
"Let's face it. Right now, hockey
isn't a priority," said Avalanche winger
Jeff Odgers, a former San Jose captain.
Instead of playing the first two
games of their Western Conference
quarterfinal series Wednesday and
tonight in Denver, the Avalanche and
Sharks will face off Saturday night
and Monday night at San Jose Arena.
The series will shift to McNiehols
Arena for Game three Wednesday,
with the fourth game to be played there
April 30.
A fifth game, if necessary, also
would take place May 1 in Denver,
with a potential sixth game May 3 in
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hasn't been scheduled yet, with May
4 at McNichols the likely possibility.
"In due respect to the situation,
this is our way to show the community
our respect," Avalanche General
Manager Pierre Lacroix said.
He made the official announcement
after his club's morning skate, with
the Sharks on the ice.
"It's not going to be easy for anyone
in this community or anyone on
this hockey club, but we have to move
on, and this is how we're going to do
it"
Lacroix lives in Littleton, about a
half mile from Columbine. Several Colorado
players live in towns, near the
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Odgers is one of at least four
Avalanche players, as well as Coach
Bob Hartley, whose sons participate
in the Littleton Minor Hockey Association.
One of Colorado right wing
Claude Lemieux's baby sitters attends
Columbine.
"We all live close to there," Lemieux
said. "I'm just about 20 minutes southeast
of there. Joe Sakic lives probably
five or 10 minutes from the school.
Everyone is just terrified.
"I went to pick up my car, and
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out. His daughter was in the school.
'Denver is a big city, but it's a small
town. Everybody knows everybody.
Everybody is connected. The more
[news footage] they showed on TV, the
more faces I recognized, whether it
was from kids coming to hockey games
or seeing them at the practice rink?
just feces."
After speaking to Avalanche Chairman
Charlie Lyons, Lacroix knew the
series couldn't go on as scheduled.
"Charlie's reaction was that we're
close to this community. We have to
act like all these kids are our kids,"
Lacroix said. Lacroix went out of his
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"Bobby Bowden should be indicted
for fraud after sending USC this poor
excuse for a coach."
(Rapid fire buzzing) I think Ladenheim
was first.
"Who is Brad Scott?"
Correct for $1000.
"He was a really nice man, Mr. Serv
On."
But he sucked as a coach, so pick
a category.
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* $200."
It's the Singleton Surprise. You can
either double your $2,000 or try for the
brand-new BMW Z-3.
If you try to double your money, you
won't lose anything for an incorrect answer.
However, if you choose the car
and give an incorrect answer, you will
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"I will definitely double my money."
r, (Crowd boos) Here is the clue.
"Monica would have been proud
of this team for not making the Stanley
Cup playoffs in 1999 after
winning the Campbell trophy in 1998."
"I have no clue."
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"As a father of teen-agers, I've
sat here for two days and watched this
coverage," San Jose Team President
Greg Jamison said.
"There's no doubt in my mind this
is a good move. Our hearts and prayers
go out to the people who have tost thenchildren.
We really believe this supersedes
anything that is going on
right now in the sporting world."
Even before learning of the postponement,
Odgers discussed the difficulty
of trying to concentrate on hockey.
"We have a lot of fathers in this
room," Odgers said. "Our wives are all
mothers.
"You send your kid off to school,
and it's supposed to be the best years
of your life, especially high school Nobody
should ever have to go through
what those kids went through."
Sharks winger Tony Granato, who
has four children, arrived Wednesday
morning at McNichols thinking there
would be no game, but trying to prepare
just in case.
"When I went to bed [Tuesday
night] trying to focus on getting ready
for a hockey game, it was pretty tough
not to be thinking about the families
and what happened," Granato said.
"It just exemplifies that we play
a game, and that's it.
"There are many, many things in
life much more important than a game.
"It's the Stanley Cup playoffs, and
I know it's why we play, but for the respect
of life, to think about a game
[now] would be ludicrous."
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Until being traded to the Sharks
last season, Ricci played for Colorado.
He lived in Aurora, about 10 minutes
from Littleton.
"The game doesn't mean much today,"
Ricci said.
"We have to pay our respect for the
families and just hope for the best.
"Hopefully, the kids get the help
they need, and the families just try to
get over this as much as they can.
It's hard to believe that many kids
had to die."
San Jose Coach Darryl Sutter, too,
had his mind elsewhere. "It's hard to
even talk about it," said Sutter, a father
of three.
"You can't even begin to feel
what those parents are feeling. I guess
it just puts everything in perspective.
"It tells you the importance of talking
to [children] every day about what?s
out there.
Sharks winger Ron Stern thought
back to a personal tragedy of his own.
While he was playing junior hockey in
Quebec, Stern's father, David, died in
a car bombing in 1987 in Montreal.
'You pick up the pieces and go on,
font th#?r#? is obviouslv a mournine De
riod," Stern said.
"No one can tell you as an individual
when to stop mourning or when
to deal with it. I don't think you ever
get over it You just learn to accept it
and try to understand something out
of the whole situation," he said.
"There's no sensible understanding,
but you try to make sense of it to
help console yourself."
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