Stanley Cup
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Avalanche players celebrate their comeback win. Isaiah J. Downing / Imagn Images
DENVER — Fifteen minutes after the most shocking loss in Minnesota Wild playoff history, general manager and president of hockey ops Bill Guerin, with three of his fellow executives following in single-file line, came down from their corner suite at Ball Arena and headed toward the back of a still closed locker room.
Guerin, not making eye contact with any of the assembled reporters, looked like he had just gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. The man who assembled this roster looked both furious, and, like his coach and players, shell-shocked at what he had just witnessed and how it could have happened.
