Colorado Avalanche @ Detroit Red Wings. Game 7 2002 Playoffs. 5/31/02
0:00 – G#1 – Tomas Holmstrom
1:17 – G#2 – Sergei Fedorov
2:28 – G#3 – Luc Robitaille
3:45 – G#4 – Tomas Holmstrom
5:09 – Bronx Cheer
5:20 – G#5 – Brett Hull
6:29 – G#6 – Fredrik Olausson
7:25 – Roy gets pulled
8:38 – G#7 – Pavel Datsyuk
9:38 – Clip from the Championship video
Full Series Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxNf3kByltI
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Forgot how loaded that team was. My gosh
And the next year, Minnesota sent Roy into retirement
Not sure if its me or Colorado but every time I watch this, there is a bit of the skunk in the air.. 🙂
I vividly remember this game. At the outset of the season, I printed the Red Wings 2001-02 schedule in Excel and taped it to my wall, highlighting Wins in yellow, Losses in blue, Ties in pink, and Overtime Losses in green.
When they went down 0-2 against Vancouver in the first round, I was a little rattled, but figured they'd win it.
When Pronger tried to take out Yzerman in the Blues series on a bad reconstructed knee and served his own demise up on an icy platter, I knew it was going to be a special run.
When they went down two different times in the Conference Finals against the Avs, I thought they might get eliminated, but when they tied it up and forced Game 7, I knew it was in the books. Then, when this game happened, I flipped the f*** out with excitement with each goal. After the rest of the series was so contentious, it was magical to see the Wings so thoroughly dominate on both ends of the ice, and to score SEVEN in GAME 7 was doubly sweet! And to clinch it in the now defunct Joe Louis Arena, their home ice, was triply sweet 😀
The Wings had such a ridiculous future Hall-Of-Famer roster that season, too. Yzerman, Lidstrom, Hasek, Duchesne, Fedorov, Datsyuk, Chelios, Olausson, Hull, Robitaille, Shanahan, Larionov, Legace, plus the Grind Line with McCarty, Maltby, Draper, and occasionally Devereaux. They seriously had one of the deepest rosters in NHL history that year!!!
I remember being a kid and my parents took me to abc warehouse and I watched this game on the display tv's for like 30 minutes
Seeing Paddy-fucking-Wah ran …. PRICELESS!!!😆😆😆
Patrick should have gone to the bench and demanded that the team president trade him to Montreal
Loved this basically the conclusion to the that rivalry. Was never the same after Roy retired.
Why oh why can't Thorn and Clement announce during the playoffs?? They were so great together
I had a football game that day and missed the first n second period ..came home to 7-0 in shock,still remember 20 years later
One of the best teams ever assembled all time all sport i dare you to name one better??? And No bulls team with jordan was better then the wings team….
The Avs never made the Conference Finals again…until 20 years later.
Being there with my dad is one of the greatest memories I’ll ever have
02 was the year I was a redwings fan and left the Toronto maple for good 22 years later still a diehard fan of redwings
20 years later. Wow. Time flies. #LGRW
20 years ago to the day!!!!! Go Wings!!
Few moments in Detroit sports history were as absolutely, shockingly awesome as this one
the glory days
EPIC DOMINATION
I remember I was so nervous before this game. I didn't know how to get rid of the anxiety until the cup final started.
Red Wings… Thorne and Clement… Roy getting his butt handed to him and pulled… Avs eliminated… PERFECTION
This was the season we're the av's went 7 games in every series.
2 goals and the roof is caving in on the Av's, at that point in time what a asinine comment. 2 goals, hands of cement Clement just two. 🤣🤣🤣
I mean come on man the wings back then the best. Still are
I'm surprised the horn didn't break
Remember when it was easy to be a wings fan lol
and 20 years later, the 2 time defending champion lightning suffered the same fate vs avs
Dream team, 2002
I have to say, am glad of the humiliation Roy suffered during this game, being a Habs fan I never forgave him for walking out the way he did in 95 lil bitch! But I think the best series I ever watched with Detroit in the final was in 2009 vs Sid the kid and the Pittsburgh Penguins, what a great series that was. Maybe the best hockey, ever
This is like one of the teams I made in nhl 96 when I was a kid
what and Roy didn't ask for a trade hehehehehe
2:12 And the roof is caving in here on the Colorado Avs.
I was at game 5 and 7.. devastated after game 5.. shocked and utterly moved to tears of joy at game 7.
As an Avs fan, being recommended this video was painful.
But I watched it anyway because I respect hockey history and understood just how good of a rival the Red Wings were.
Great game! My two favorite players scored, Fedorov and Dats )
To this day….that fuckin Larionov pass to Luc was a Gretzky/ Lemieux vision
Fedorov scores!
Robitaille scores!
Hull scores!
Datsyuk scores!
Pass by Yzerman
Pass by Lidstrom
Hasek save!
Wtf lol
Patrick "wha!"
Halfway through the game up 6-0 and watching Roy get pulled. There's no sweeter feeling.
I remember I had set my VCR to record this game because I was at work that night. I came home, was careful not to look at ESPN or any other sports channel that might've spoiled the ending for me. I rewound the tape, thinking I got it to the point of the beginning of the game. But I messed up and hit Play when the tape was near the end of the 1st period (at 4-0). I was utterly shocked and just fast-fwd'd through the rest…lol. What a waste, totally shocking.
next to The Captain scoring the game winner in double OT, this is my all time favorite Red Wing memory.
my new barber's a young guy about 25 years old. he was telling me how great the Avs were going to be in the playoffs, and rooting for them. I said nope…can't won't.
I don't care we're in different conferences now there's just still too much bad blood from the 90s!
I was at this game. On the glass Greatest Sports Moment I've witnessed
Colorado had a few bad game 7's during this Era. 4-0 to Oilers in '98, 4-1 to Dallas in '99 and this demolition to Detroit in 2002.
5:05–5:16 has to be so humiliating… whole arena chanting your name, than a massively loud roar when u make a routine save 🤣🤣🤣
I was graduating high school when this game happened and my dad was recording the game at home.I just remember walking down a hallway with all my classmates going to get our diplomas and I remember one of them distinctly saying "can you believe the Red Wings are already up 4 goals after the first period?" I heard that and was like What ?!?! It's a day I'll never forget for many reasons and that moment is one of them
IN 99, AVS ELIMINATED BACK TO BACK CHAMPS RED WINGS AND SAME THING IN 2022 VS LIGHTNING
One Hail of a series this was the Stanley cup.
This was as hyped for a game as I ever was in my life. Pacing around pregame, probably near sweating. Lying on the floor😅 one of the greatest series I ever watched certainly
Hasek said later he didn't start to relax until it was 6-0 and Roy was out of the game.
Red Wings Penetrate The Patrick Roy like P**
6 years later Red Wings Led By Lidstorm Swept The Avalanche