It was only the second game in Avalanche history in which there was no promise of another game. The other one was Game 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, and the Avs finished up as world champions that night.
Never before, however, had the Avs played a regular-season or playoff game in which there wasn’t at least hope for a tomorrow. But that didn’t stop them from playing as if Sunday night’s 2006-07 season finale was really a Game 7.
The Avs closed out their first nonplayoff campaign in team history with a 6-3 victory at the Pepsi Center over the team that beat them out by one point for the playoffs, the Calgary Flames.
Joe Sakic finished one of the best seasons of his marvelous career with three points, giving him 100, and he became the 14th player in NHL history to record 200 power-play goals. He finished seventh in NHL scoring at age 37.
