Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0696306002338
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Polygram USA Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Polygram USA Video
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Running Time: 10 minutes
Studio: Polygram USA Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 29, 1943

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
One team: the Colorado Avalanche, a veritable all-star team packed with Hall of Famers-to-be. One goal: the Stanley Cup, professional sports' most venerable trophy, which the Avalanche last won in 1996. This stirring official NHL championship video chronicles the Avalanche's relentless pursuit of hockey's supreme prize in 65 minutes of interviews and thrilling on- and off-the-ice footage of their season highlights and hockey milestones. With his 448th win, Patrick Roy breaks the nearly 30-year-old record to become hockey's all-time most winning goalie. The Avalanche, "the best collection of pure talent in the game," contribute five players to the 12-man All-Star roster. And Raymond Bourque, who spent 21 years in a Bruins uniform without winning a championship, has an emotional Boston homecoming as a member of the Avalanche. Joe Sakic leads the power surge as the Avalanche "flatten the opposition" all season long and compile the league's best record. After sweeping the Vancouver Canucks and defeating the upstart Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues in the playoffs, the stage is set for underdog heroics as the Avalanche face off against the defending champion New Jersey Devils, a series that will go seven games. By the time Sakic graciously hands the Stanley Cup to Bourque, who triumphantly hoists it over his head in exultant celebration, there won't be a dry eye in the house. --Donald Liebenson

Description:
It took 22 years to accomplish. Twenty-two years of grueling NHL action culminating in one incredible championship season as Ray Bourque led the Colorado Avalanche to their second Stanley Cup triumph in five years and Bourque's first in an incredible 22-year career.

Now you can relive all the impassioned drama of the 2000-2001 Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup championship season in Mission Accomplished: The Official 2001 Stanley Cup Championship Video. This incredible program takes you behind the scenes at the most dramatic moments of a truly breathtaking season. Be there for Patrick Roy's record setting 448th win; take the ice with Ray Bourque during his emotional return to Boston in an Avalanche uniform; and witness the determined leadership of Avalanche captain Joe Sakic throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs. Finally, feel the magic after an emotionally draining seventh game of the Stanley Cup championship series when Joe Sakic passes the most storied trophy in all sport to the legend whose dream had just come true and Ray Bourque hoisted the Cup high above his head. Mission: Accomplished! Own an avalanche of memories with Mission Accomplished: The Official 2001 Stanley Cup Championship Video.




Rating: - Go AVs Go
What an awesome video! Just too bad it wasn't available on DVD because it is definitely a keeper. Show all of the best wins for the Avs up to the Stanley Cup victory and shows warts and all! Great shots of Patrick Roy.

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Rating: - Mostly good
The other reviewers here are right about a couple of things: 1. There should have been more regular-season coverage. They won 52 games in the regular season, for crying out loud. Doing so allowed the Avalanche to get home-ice through the playoffs, which was sooo important. There should have been more about that. There were a lot of great, great games they could have picked from the season.
2. There was too much about the Travis Roy incident. I hate to seem insensitive, because Roy seemed like ... Read More

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Rating: - Choppy coverage of a great season
This video seems to focus a bit too much on sentimentality and Ray Bourque, where it could have used increased coverage of the regular season or even just more detailed coverage of each finals game, great goals (like all of Chris Drury's during the playoffs), great saves (Bourque doing a mid-air stop of the puck), and even obstacles (Sakic injury during the first part of the LA series).

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Rating: - Disappointing Coverage.
I found this a disappointing video. Bob Hartley is allowed to make plenty of comments, but Forsberg only got a tiny mention and they didn't cover any of his frustration once he was out of the playoffs. The Devils, The Blues, nor the Kings had a voice in this, either. It would've been interesting to hear some of their comments about playing against the Avs. This video also spends too much time on Roy breaking Sawchuk's win record. That didn't even happen during the playoffs. The whole Roy thing is taken ... Read More

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Rating: - 3 stars if you rent it
I bought this video and I don't feel it was worth it. Making a sports video shouldn't be too hard, after all most of the time a sports fan is happy just watching highlights. But this video just does an average job compiling highlights. They didn't necessarily show the goals from the best possible angle and they often showed them only once. For example, Tanguay's first goal of game 7 of the Finals... they pick just about the most incoherent angle of a goal that was spectacular looking yet difficult to ... Read More

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