AV'S ALWAYS A DIRTY TEAM- DISLIKE THEM TO THIS DAY!!

Claude Lemieux is a POS. I'm glad McCarty made him turtle. But then he turtled before.

17:15 "captain 1983-2006" that kinda says it all.

OK, great video, but do we really need to put Brendan Shanahan in the list with the other all-time greats in that opening?

Крисс дрейпер просто хоккейный Чак норрис.похож просто супер

Not an Avs fan, but that Draper hit was clean

I absolutely hated Claude Lemieux...what a cowardly weasel!!

Speaking objectively as a Habs fan, Claude Lemiuex was an ass. He had no class, and earned every beating he received. No need to play like a jackass, but he did

Love Mickeys play by play

One of the greatest games ever

Darren McCarty is back on tna impact wrestling on team Tommy dreamer

Besides the lakers and Celtics, and Red Sox Yankees, this was the greatest and most heated rivalry in pro sports history, and as a wings fan, it was a joy and heart ache to watch

1 thing though...how the hell do you not mention that Colorado was defending champs in 2002? Yes we had lost Bourque,& a few guys,& yes-Detroit was understandably a pretty heavy favorite. I say that 2002 Detroit is the best team ive ever seen. But all you say is "we were a young up,& coming team trying to prove they were among the nhls best?" Fuck you-we were the 2 seed,& defending champs. Yes,teams like SJ had closed the gap-we beat LA in 7 in round 1,then beat SJ in 7 in round 2...only reason we had home ice,& 2 seed was cuz of a tiebreaker. But Forsberg missed the entire reg season-then came back to lead the playoffs in scoring. Everybody knew Detroit was the best team-& there was a pretty big gap to everybody else-I always say those Avs overachieved by even getting to game 7 vs Detroit. But you act like we were a plucky 7 seed-with a whole new team. Detroit was clearly the better team,but Colorado was the defending champs,2 seed,& fell 1 win short of upsetting you,& we wouldve CRUSHED Carolina-just like you did. We fell 1 win short of repeating. In the end-the much better team won,but this wasnt some 16 seed almost upsetting a 1 seed in March Madness,like you act. Otherwise-terrific show,& reasonably fair-though its clearly from a Detroit perspective. But you dropped the ball on that last little bit.

Being 25 yrs old when the Avs came to Denver-this rivalry is what started my love affair with hockey,& the Avs. I work at Ball arena now for Av,& Nug games,& we had no clue back then how special this rivalry was. I knew it was intense,& the best hockey rivalry at the time. But didnt realize itd go down in history,& now rightfully makes almost every list of "best rivalries in all of sports history"-not just hockey. We kinda knew these teams were both ridiculously stacked,& the hockey was amazing-but it also was all some of us in Denvrr really knew bout hockey back then. That having Sakic,Forsberg,Roy,etc was something super rare. Same could be said of those Wings teams.

You forgot too mention the 2008 western conference semifinals between these 2.

The Red Wings and the Avalanche didn't have a rivalry from 1996-2002, they fought a WAR!

When Draper said when they played each other, there was like 12 or 15 Hall of Famers playing. That's insane!

Greatest rivalry in the history of hockey

A coma wouldn’t have been enough payback for Lemieux’s hit. What a cowardly dirty POS.

Lemieux was the most hated player of the Detroit fans. Game six was the most iconic game I've ever seen.

Patrick sounds like he's got a frog in his throat

Any true competitor knows… Your greatness is defined by the level of your opponent. When I got out of the service and moved back home to Colorado.. the Avalanche came too… I fell in Love with hockey because of this rivalry and our brand new team. We were all so blessed in Colorado and Michigan to get to see this live.

Skates and no gloves, makes me nervous someone gonna loose a finger.. loved every second of this bloodbath

Greatest rivalry ever. Go Avs.

Can’t wait to watch Unrivaled. Too bad can’t stream it. After this many years it’s still the best rivalry ever. The amount of stars on each side. It will never happen again.

RED WINGS!!!! Man, I'm still climbing my chair! Hockey 🏒 was never so INTENSE!

is this healthy sports.lemieux s steroid swollen face and conduct makes me sick.is that a hall of famer?steroids part in rink violence should be talked about.these guys are drug addicts for the most part.just as sick as rest of that violent mass shooting society.

This rivalry is so dead. Biggest rivalry to the Red Wings now are the Penguins or Leafs.

Epic. Not any more complicated than that

Ahhh.......those were the days. Hope I live long enough to see them lift one more Cup. Now we're in the East and it's shifted to hating Boston. Hope we can become more competitive soon and start hating Tampa like everyone else.

So many good players that are forgotten:Deadmarsh, Krupp, Ozlonish.

I always found it so fascinating and ironic that The Wings caused the Roy trade and inadvertently created their own Frankenstein, lol

AVS 2022 ..Where's the Red Wings? Colorado Avalanche are again the BEST & fastest team in the NHL.

It was definitely the best rivalry in sports. As an Avs fan who watched every minute of this as it happened all I can say is, Red Wings suck!

I've been in this rabbit hole off and on for quite a bit. These teams had it all, and they matched up almost perfectly.

"Patrick Roy bloodied up, Peter Forsberg bloodied up, and Lemieux in the locker room. They are on their feet here at Joe Louis Arena !"

I’ve been a kings fan since 1995. My 2nd favorite was the wings. This hockey was pure Brilliance.

CONVENIENT HOW YOU LEFT OUT THE 2000-01 AVS STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP WITH RAY BOURQUE. NOT EVEN A MENTION OF IT. You must be a red wing boot licker. Makes sense that you left it out. Because the wings, as the #2 seed, got spanked out of the playoffs in six games by the LA Kings. Hilarious. The Avalanche went on to beat New Jersey in seven games. Finally securing a Stanley Cup for Ray Bourque. Also beating the team that swept the wings in the finals in '95. I'm curious to know why you didn't mention this season? Other than the fact that they didn't meet in the playoffs that year. The Rivalry was still going on at that point for sure.

After the hit on Draper the Cup kind of took a back seat .

Best rivalry in NHL history change my mind. They fucking hated each other and 5 out of 7 cups from 96-2002 were won by either Detroit or Colorado and they ended up battling each other every playoffs.

Darren McCarty, a warrior 🇨🇦🇮🇪

Its literally nonstop legends, like a hockey arena on Mt. Olympus every time they played each other

Best rivalry ever but the red wings organization will always be a bunch of cry baby cunts

This was the series that got me hooked on hokey as a kid.

The bertuzzi sucker punch and slamming a guy face first into the ice fracturing his neck was worse than anything. I wanted dead wings after that. Never liked anyone who was a wings fan after that

History was made glad I got to witness it

Best rivalry .Period.

I love my wings past and current, but nothing will bet this era of hockey. Bone crushing physicality, Silky smooth plays, really just the cream of the crop.

to live through this in real time was amazing, every free agent move or trade was crafted around trying to one up each other

I remember watching this rivalry clearly. 😆 Patrick Roy was a total loose cannon. What a hot head. 😆 🤣 😂.