The two bitter rivals went the distance and the first six games were tight and hard-fought. Darren McCarty's hat trick gave the Wings Game 1, but the Avs countered with a 4-3 OT win in Game 2, thanks to Chris Drury's goal. Game 3 went into OT with Avs goalie Patrick Roy staving off a Wings onslaught until he was beaten by Frederik Olausson at 12:44 of the extra session. In Game 4, Drury was again the hero for Colorado in a 3-2 win, and the Avs went up three games to two when Peter Forsberg victimized the Wings on a line change, scoring the decisive goal in a 2-1 OT thriller. It took Dominik Hasek's 2-0 shutout in Game 6 to turn the tide and the Red Wings poured it on with a 7-0 blowout in Game 7.
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