EDMONTON, Alberta — Wearing a smile nearly as big as when he handed the Stanley Cup to Ray Bourque in 2001, Joe Sakic emerged from the Colorado locker room after Avs’ 6-5 victory against Edmonton. “It’s fun. But we’re not done,” Sakic told me Monday. “We need four more wins.”
With yet another come-from-behind victory in the NHL playoffs, the Avalanche beat Edmonton in overtime and returned to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 21 years when Sakic and Patrick Roy were kings of the hockey universe.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said 34-year-old defenseman Erik Johnson, the longest tenured member of the Avs, who remembers when this team was at the bottom of the NHL standings. “We’ve been waiting for a long time for a chance to do this.”
