Mile High Sticking
Fansided

Colorado Avalanche Mount Rushmore Monument Nominees

By Nadia Archuleta

DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 7: Members of the Colorado Avalanche 20th Anniversary Team are honored before a game against the Minnesota Wild at Pepsi Center on December 7, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 7: Members of the Colorado Avalanche 20th Anniversary Team are honored before a game against the Minnesota Wild at Pepsi Center on December 7, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) /
facebooktwitterreddit
Prev
4 of 5
Next
colorado avalanche
Hockey – Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy during a game against the Los Angeles Kings on December 28, 1996 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Craig Hacker/Sporting News via Getty Images) /

Patrick Roy

Avalanche games played: 478
Record as an Avalanche: 262-163-65
Honors as an Avalanche: 1996, 2001 Stanley Cup; 2001 Conn Smythe

Goalie Patrick Roy should be the next obvious candidate for Mount Rushmore even though he technically spent a little more time with the Montreal Canadiens. That said, he recorded a 262-163-65 record in his 478 games with the Colorado Avalanche.

As we all know, Patrick Roy’s brilliance came out in the playoffs. The Colorado Avalanche made the playoffs every single time Roy was their goalie. (He only missed the playoffs once, in 1994-95 with the Canadiens.) In the playoffs, Roy’s record with the Avs was 81-52.

Patrick Roy was a large part of the two Stanley Cups Colorado won. Indeed, he was earned the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2001 as playoff MVP. That season he had the best save percentage of his playoff career — .934.

As with Sakic and Forsberg, Patrick Roy had his number retired after he himself retired in 2003. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006 — first ballot nominee, of course.

Home/History